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Nib vs Mib - What's the difference?

nib | mib |

As nouns the difference between nib and mib

is that nib is the tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper while mib is a marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.

As an abbreviation MiB is

symbol for mebibyte, a unit of 220 (1,048,576) bytes. As opposed to the megabyte, 1,000,000 bytes, which is abbreviated MB.

nib

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib , pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them.
  • The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
  • Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
  • A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
  • A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • the little nib or fructifying principle
  • One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
  • The shaft of a wagon.

    • Derived terms

    * denib

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    mib

    English

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • (computing) Symbol for mebibyte, a unit of 220 (1,048,576) bytes. As opposed to the megabyte, 1,000,000 bytes, which is abbreviated MB.

    • Anagrams

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