megabyte
noun
mega·byte ˈme-gə-ˌbīt 
: 1024 kilobytes or 1,048,576 bytes
also : one million bytes
Example Sentences
The CD has a storage capacity of 800 megabytes.
Recent Examples on the Web The Commission's price caps started at €0.90 per megabyte, and graded downwards each year. 
David Meyer, Fortune, 24 June 2021 Not all that long ago, a complex game or software program fit on a 1.4 megabyte floppy disk. Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020 Designed specifically to endure shocks, crushing, drops, dust, and water, the stylish Rugged Mini offers protection from the elements in capacities from one to eight terabytes and boasts transfer speeds of up to 130 megabytes per second. Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020 Megabits are one-eighth the size of a megabyte (at a rate of 1 megabit per second, for example, a 10MB image would take 80 seconds to download). Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 21 Feb. 2020 The 286 was a 16-bit CPU that could address up to 16 megabytes of random access memory (RAM) through a 24-bit address bus. Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2019 According to figures collected by John McCallum, a computer scientist, a megabyte of data storage in 1956 would have cost around $9,200 ($85,000 in today’s prices). The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019 To be sure, the phone’s 4G speed was still mighty fast, up to 117 megabytes. Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019 In the 1980s, public keys based on lattices were too long, requiring megabytes of data to transmit. Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2015 See More
David Meyer, Fortune, 24 June 2021 Not all that long ago, a complex game or software program fit on a 1.4 megabyte floppy disk. Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020 Designed specifically to endure shocks, crushing, drops, dust, and water, the stylish Rugged Mini offers protection from the elements in capacities from one to eight terabytes and boasts transfer speeds of up to 130 megabytes per second. Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020 Megabits are one-eighth the size of a megabyte (at a rate of 1 megabit per second, for example, a 10MB image would take 80 seconds to download). Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 21 Feb. 2020 The 286 was a 16-bit CPU that could address up to 16 megabytes of random access memory (RAM) through a 24-bit address bus. Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2019 According to figures collected by John McCallum, a computer scientist, a megabyte of data storage in 1956 would have cost around $9,200 ($85,000 in today’s prices). The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019 To be sure, the phone’s 4G speed was still mighty fast, up to 117 megabytes. Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019 In the 1980s, public keys based on lattices were too long, requiring megabytes of data to transmit. Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2015 See More Word History
Etymology
from the fact that 1,048,576 (220) is the power of 2 closest to one million
First Known Use
1965, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
megabyte
noun
mega·byte ˈme-gə-ˌbīt
: a unit of computer information storage capacity equal to 1,048,576 bytes
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