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💰 Roman numeral 1000 🔤 A letter 🧪 Molarity unit 💾 Megabyte unit
M

M

9 5.8
A unit of digital information like a megabyte used to measure file size
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : megabyte
  • The dashed line shows the result of applying a simple log-log extrapolation to the 4M and 8M points.

Examples

  • The 4-week average at 8638 M vs. 8579 M one year ago was again up, +0.7% YoY.

    Blog text (6)

  • Mean wave height for the year in 1990 was 2.30 m (S.D.=0.91), and in 1994 it was 2.40 m (S.D.=0.85).

    Academic text (1997)

  • Currently, there are 130 games with more than 1M monthly active players each.

    Blog text (18)

  • And finally, they have a one terabyte M SATA SSD now.

  • Ages ranged from 17 to 31 (M = 18.78, SD = 1.81).

    Academic text (2003)

  • Unit 3: Continents and Tectonic Plates, baseline, M = 3.2, range 3-4; intervention, M = 5.3, range 4-6 (see Figure 5).

    Academic text (2012)

  • The file size of the video is 150M, which is suitable for streaming.

  • This hard drive can store up to 500M of data.

  • When measuring internet speed, a transfer rate of 10M per second is typical.

Synonyms

MB
vsM
  • Specialized
17 3.0

A unit for measuring digital information of about one million bytes

is a general unit term that can refer to that abbreviation
megabyte
vsM
  • Specialized
10 3.0

A measure of computer data equal to about one million bytes

is a general unit that can mean that decimal million size
meg
vsM
  • Informal
4 6.8

A unit for measuring file size equal to about one million bytes

is a general unit term that can mean that informal form
MiB
vsM
  • Specialized
1 7.3

A unit of digital information used in computing equal to 1,048,576 bytes

is a general unit term that can also mean that binary abbreviation
mebibyte
vsM
  • Specialized
8.7

A unit of computer data equal to 1,048,576 bytes

is a general unit that can mean that binary 1,048,576 value

Compounds

M-1
1 7.4

A standard U.S. military rifle used by U.S. soldiers in World War II

M-1 rifle
1 7.5

A U.S. military semiautomatic rifle used in World War II and the Korean War

immunoglobulin M
  • Specialized
6.3

An antibody found in the blood early in infection that fights germs and helps start longer protection

vitamin M
  • Archaic
3.3

A vitamin needed for making new cells and preventing anemia

Surface Forms

M singular
Ms plural

Etymology

M for digital size comes from the prefix mega, from a Greek word meaning 'great' and often used to mean 'million'. So 5 M usually means about five million bytes (five megabytes), and that is a quick way to show how big a file is.