megabyte

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  • Noun:
    a unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes

Word Origin

megabyte (n.)
1972, from mega- + byte. The Sussex team has run the Forrester/Meadows models more than 1000 times on the UK's most powerful computer (the giant two-megabyte IBM 370/165 at Harwell). ["New Scientist," May 4, 1972]

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