MB
17
3.0
- noun
- Specialized
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megabyte
- Original sizes for these were about 4 MB at 600 dpi resolution and about 16 MB for the 1200 dpi versions.
- 10 MB
- 1 MB
- 2 MB
And so he created a limit that each block should be no bigger than one MB.
- And so he created a limit that each block should be no bigger than one MB.
- So with huge pages, we take those four KB chunks and we make them two MB chunks, which drastically reduces the size of our table and therefore our CPU overhead.
Examples
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For example, five years ago, the quantification may have been 10MB vs. 20MB vs. 30MB disk drives.
Academic text (1991) -
The file size is 7 MB, so it may take a while to load.
Blog text (6) -
Upgrading my "graphics" computer from 16 to 32 MB of RAM would cost, therefore, at least $800.
Academic text (1994) -
Other features include 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of built-in storage.
Blog text (7) -
One MB equals 1,024 k; a 12.3 MB file is 343 times larger than a 37 k file.
Academic text (1999) -
Presumed minimum real memory size is 16 MB (2^24 bytes, 4K pages).
Academic text (1994) -
The video file is too large; it takes up about 200 MB of storage space on my device.
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My new phone has a memory limit of 256 MB for application data.
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The game requires at least 1 MB of free space to install properly.
Synonyms
10
3.0
A measure of computer data equal to about one million bytes
4
6.8
A unit for measuring file size equal to about one million bytes
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
MB = M + B
An abbreviation for 'megabyte'; the letter components do not transparently map to the unit meaning, so knowledge depends on knowing the abbreviation expansion.
Etymology
MB comes from mega (a prefix meaning 'large' or 'about a million') and byte (a unit of digital data). So an MB is a simple way to say a large amount of data—about one million bytes—used to measure file size and storage.