Megabyte (Noun)
Meaning 1
A unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The new smartphone comes with 128 megabytes of internal storage, which is relatively small compared to other models.
- The average size of a digital photo is around 2-5 megabytes, depending on the resolution and compression.
- The file size of the video is 500 megabytes, so it may take a while to download on a slow internet connection.
- The computer's hard drive has a capacity of 500 gigabytes, which is equivalent to 500,000 megabytes.
- The email attachment size limit is 10 megabytes, so you'll need to compress the file or send it in multiple parts if it's larger than that.