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.

• 🇨🇳数字信息的存储单位，通常定义为1,000,000字节（十进制）或1,048,576字节（二进制），用于衡量文件大小或内存容量。

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.

   🇨🇳兆字节（十进制）

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.

   🇨🇳兆字节

   同义词: mebibyte

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