different between megabit vs megabyte

English

Etymology

From mega- +? bit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???b?t/

Noun

megabit (plural megabits)

1. (computing) 10⁶ = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes)
   • 1965, IBM, Field Engineering Theory of Operation 2311 Disk Storage Drive, page 3-27

     When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits/sec.

   Synonym: Mb

2. (computing) 2²⁰ = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit

   Synonym: Mib

3. (computing, informal) one megabit per second

   Synonym: Mbps

Coordinate terms

• bit, kilobit, gigabit, terabit, petabit, exabit

Related terms

• megabyte (MB)

Translations

See also

• Mbps

Further reading

• megabit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Czech

Etymology

mega- +? bit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m??ab?t]

Noun

megabit m

1. megabit (one million bits)

Further reading

• megabit in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• megabit in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Italian

Etymology

From mega- +? bit.

Noun

megabit m (invariable)

1. (computing) megabit

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English megabit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??a?bit??(i)/, /?m??a?bit(i)/

Noun

megabit m (plural megabits)

1. (computing) megabit (one million bits)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: Mbit, Mb

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the bit: kilobit, megabit, gigabit, terabit, petabit, exabit, zettabit, yottabit

Related terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?a?bit/, [me.??a???it?]

Noun

megabit m (plural megabits)

1. megabit

English

Etymology

mega- +? byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m????ba?t/

Noun

megabyte (plural megabytes)

1. One million (10⁶) bytes.
   • 1964, IBM, System/360 System Summary, page 27

     The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second.

   • 1973, IBM, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, page 3

     This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.

2. (computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte.
   • 2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933

     One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.

   • 2004, Kerry Cox & Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page 92

     Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).

   • 2006, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 290

     By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.

Synonyms

• MB, ?

Related terms

• Previous: kilobyte
• Next: gigabyte
• Mb
• mebibyte
• megabit

Translations

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

Czech

Alternative forms

• megabajt

Etymology

mega- +? byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m??abajt]

Noun

megabyte m

1. megabyte

Further reading

• megabyte in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• megabyte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Italian

Etymology

mega- +? byte

Noun

megabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) megabyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English megabyte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??a?bajt(?)(i)/

Noun

megabyte m (plural megabytes)

1. (computing) megabyte (one million bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: MB, mega

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• megabit
• mebibyte

Spanish

Etymology

From English megabyte.

Noun

megabyte m (plural megabytes)

1. megabyte