megabyte
n : a unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes
[syn: {MB}]
megabyte
({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)