megabyte

A unit of digital information storage, commonly defined as either 1,000,000 bytes (decimal) or 1,048,576 bytes (binary), used to measure file sizes or memory capacity.

• 🇩🇪Maßeinheit für digitale Informationsmenge, meist definiert als 1.000.000 Byte (dezimal) oder 1.048.576 Byte (binär), verwendet zur Angabe von Dateigrößen oder Speicherkapazität.

1. Decimal megabyte B1 formal IT

   A unit of digital information equal to one million bytes (1,000,000 bytes), commonly used for data storage.

   • The file size is about 5 megabytes.
   • This photo takes up 2 megabytes of space.
   • A typical MP3 song is around 3 to 5 megabytes.

   🇩🇪Megabyte (dezimal)

2. Binary megabyte B1 formal IT

   A unit of digital information equal to 1,048,576 bytes (2^20 bytes), often used in computing contexts.

   • The computer's memory is measured in megabytes.
   • This program requires 256 megabytes of RAM.
   • The hard drive has a capacity of 500 megabytes.

   🇩🇪Megabyte

   Synonyme: mebibyte

• megabytes plural form
• megabytes' possessive plural form
• megabyte's possessive singular form