different between megabyte vs kilobyte

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

English

Etymology

Coined in the 1960s, from kilo- (“thousand”) +? byte.

Noun

kilobyte (plural kilobytes)

1. (computing, especially RAM) A unit of storage capacity, equal to 1024 (2¹⁰) bytes : a kibibyte. Frequently abbreviated KB.
2. (computing, especially networking) 1000 (10³) bytes. SI Symbol: kB

Synonyms

• kB, KB, ?

Related terms

• Previous: byte
• Next: megabyte
• kibibyte
• kilobit

Translations

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

Czech

Alternative forms

• kilobajt

Etymology

kilo- +? byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?lobajt]

Noun

kilobyte m

1. kilobyte

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

kilo- +? byte

Noun

kilobyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) kilobyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English kilobyte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kilo?bajt(?)(i)/

Noun

kilobyte m (plural kilobytes)

1. (computing) kilobyte (one thousand bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: KB, kB

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• kilobit
• kebibyte