megabyte

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See also: Megabyte and mégabyte

English

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Etymology

From mega- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

Noun

megabyte (plural megabytes)

  1. (computing, formal) One million (106, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
    • 1964, System/360 System Summary, IBM, 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, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, IBM, page 3:
      This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
  2. (computing, informal) 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.

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Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

From mega- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

Noun

megabyte m inan

  1. megabyte

Declension

Declension of megabyte (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
singular plural
nominative megabyte megabyty
genitive megabytu megabytů
dative megabytu megabytům
accusative megabyte megabyty
vocative megabyte megabyty
locative megabytu megabytech
instrumental megabytem megabyty

Further reading

  • “megabyte”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • megabyte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English megabyte. By surface analysis, mega- +‎ byte.

Noun

megabyte m (invariable)

  1. (computing) megabyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English megabyte.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaj.t͡ʃi/ , /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbajt͡ʃ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbajt͡ʃ/ , /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaj.t͡ʃi/

Noun

megabyte m (plural megabytes)

  1. (computing) megabyte (one million bytes)

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English megabyte.

Pronunciation

Noun

megabyte m (plural megabytes)

  1. megabyte

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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