Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One million bits.
  • noun 1,048,576 (220) bits.

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  • noun computing 106 = 1,000,000 bits or approximately 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes)
  • noun computing 220 = 1,048,576 bits

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,000) bits

Etymologies

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mega- +‎ bit

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  • The Wordnik definition is incorrect.

    MEGABIT cannot = 1 million bits AND 1,048,576 bits. It is one or the other; and in fact, it is the former.

    ONE MEGABIT = 1 million bits.

    ONE MEBIBIT = 1,048,576 bits. (Why such an apparently random number? Well 1 mebibit = 2 raised to the power 20, which = 1,048,576.)

    September 26, 2021

  • words can have multiple senses. mebebit is interesting though

    September 28, 2021