Meg vs Mb - What's the difference?

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In computing terms the difference between meg and mb

is that meg is : - My new computer has over 500 megs of RAM. = megabyte while mb is motherboard.

As proper nouns the difference between meg and mb

is that meg is a diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan while MB is manitoba, a province of Canada.

As nouns the difference between meg and mb

is that meg is common abbreviation for many/any unit having the SI prefix mega-, such as megahertzMB is bachelor of Medicine degree (Latin Medicinae Baccalaureus).

As an initialism Mb is

megabit, a unit of information or computer storage.

meg

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.

* 1818 John Keats: Meg Merrilies :

Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,

And tall as Amazon:

An old red blanket cloak she wore,

A chip-hat had she on.

* 1985 , World's Fair , Fawcett Crest 1986, ISBN 0449212378, page 208

My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name.

'What kind of name is that,' she said.

'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg .'

'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'

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* * English diminutives of female given names

mb

English

Noun

(en noun)

Bachelor of Medicine degree (Latin Medicinae Baccalaureus).

(China, slang) moneyboy

(SI) megabyte (1,000 kilobytes or 1,000,000 bytes).

* 1989 , IBM, IBM 3390 Direct Access Storage Reference Summary , page 7

MB equals 10⁶ bytes and GB equals 10⁹ bytes

(computing) Motherboard.

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

Manitoba, a province of Canada.

===(en)=== (en-abbr)

(knitting) make bobble

* 2011 , Jane Davis, Knitting - The Complete Guide (page 145)

Row 1: K2, MB , k1, do not turn.

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