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 125,000bytes (125kilobytes ) - 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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Examples
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WilletteEchidna: Unfortunately bits can still leave you with a base-10 representation, such as "megabit" or "kilobit."
Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Terms such as megabit and gigabit are used by the IP community as though they are part of the common vernacular, but they are not.
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Virgin Media trials 200 megabit-per-second broadband service with English residents — What will they do with that speed?
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He added that consumers could still use the product, with lower image quality, at speeds of less than one megabit per second.
Cisco, Logitech Introduce Gear for Videocalls via TV Cari Tuna 2010
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Virgin Media trials 200 megabit-per-second broadband service with English residents — What will they do with that speed?
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A customer who has signed up for an up to 8 megabit per second package can have their speed cut to below 1Mbps.
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These people have been marketing “X megabit” for way too long.
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It requires a wireless network with at least 1 megabit per second of download speed, and works best with at least 1.5 to 2.0 megabits.
Working In Word, Excel, PowerPoint on an iPad Walter S. Mossberg 2012
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JMA: These people have been marketing “X megabit” for way too long.
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ADN if you want to download no reason why a 99$ account should not get you 50 megabit unlimited, give 9 a month to hollywood and the riaa and tell them to bugger off. make it a law and make the only way they get an increase is by national referendum, WHAT HOLLYWOOD FEAR DEMOCRACY?
frankhall commented on the word megabit
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
ry commented on the word megabit
words can have multiple senses. mebebit is interesting though
September 28, 2021