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megabyte | mbps | initialism |

Megabyte is a initialism of mbps.


As a noun megabyte

is megabyte (about a million bytes).

As an initialism mbps is

(computing) megabytes per second.

megabyte

English

(megabyte)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One million bytes. SI Symbol: MB
  • * 1964 , IBM, System/360 System Summary , 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 , IBM, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage , page 3
  • This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
  • (computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.
  • * 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.

    References

    * The IEC explanation of its definitions ----

    mbps

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (Mbps)
  • (computing) megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate
  • Coordinate terms

    * bps , kbps , Gbps , Tbps , Pbps , Ebps

    See also

    * megabaud