megabyte

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

megabyte
    n 1: a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6
         (1,000,000) bytes [syn: {megabyte}, {M}, {MB}]
    2: a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20
       (1,048,576) bytes [syn: {megabyte}, {mebibyte}, {M}, {MB},
       {MiB}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

megabyte
meg

   <unit> ({MB}, colloquially "meg") 2^20 = 1,048,576 {bytes} =
   1024 {kilobytes}.  1024 megabytes are one {gigabyte}.

   The text of a six hundred page paperback book would require
   about a megabyte of {ASCII} storage.

   See {prefix}.

   (1997-03-26)

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