A unit of information equal to one million or, strictly, 1,048,576 bytes.
‘We used to measure data in terms of kilobytes and megabytes; now gigabytes and terabytes are the terms commonly discussed.’
‘Here is a quick explanation of bytes, megabytes, and so on, and some estimates of the storage requirements of various sorts of information.’
‘The software requires only five megabytes of hard disk space and 16 megabytes of random access memory (Ram).’
‘I've been writing for years about how the price of hard drives has tumbled down to a penny a megabyte and here I was paying almost 20 cents a megabyte!’
‘The Editor's Internet service provider will not process files larger than two megabytes.’
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