megabit

English

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megabit

Wikipedia

Etymology

From mega- +‎ bit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɡəbɪt/

Noun

megabit (plural megabits)

1. (computing) One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).
   • 1965, Field Engineering Theory of Operation 2311 Disk Storage Drive, IBM, pages 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.

2. (computing) a mebibit.
3. (computing, informal) one megabit per second

   Synonym: Mbps

Synonyms

• Mbit

Coordinate terms

• Previous: kilobit
• Next: gigabit

Related terms

• mebibyte
• megabyte

Translations

Further reading

• “megabit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Czech

Etymology

From mega- +‎ bit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

megabit m inan

1. megabit (one million bits)

Declension

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English megabit. By surface analysis, mega- +‎ bit.

Noun

megabit m (invariable)

1. (computing) megabit

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English megabit.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛɡaˈbit͡ʃ(i)/, /ˌmɛɡaˈbit(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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mégabit.

Noun

megabit m (plural megabiți)

1. megabit

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meɡaˈbit/
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: me‧ga‧bit

Noun

megabit m (plural megabits)

1. megabit