megabit
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- noun
- /ˈmɛɡəˌbɪt/
- Specialized
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megabit
- With technological advances, the company will eventually be able to offer 90 percent of its U-Verse territory speeds of 75 megabits per second, while 75 percent will get speeds of 100 megabits per second.
- megabits per second
Examples
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Weiser is far less concerned about how slow, expensive, and unreliable the basic broadband service currently available to American households (1–3 megabits per second) is.
Academic text (2005) -
Most modern internet connections offer speeds of over 100 megabits per second.
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Even an 8-page per minute laser printer requires a data rate of about 1 megabit per second.
Academic text (1992) -
It will provide a data rate from Mars of more than 2 megabits per second.
Academic text (2004) -
And of those 60%, only a minority of them actually get download speeds as high as 4 megabits per second, the minimum required speed for actual broadband as defined by the FCC.
Blog text (33) -
In fact, users are being offered Internet speeds that sit somewhere between 8 and 12 Megabits per second (Mbps), which is more than some homeowners receive on a standard broadband connection.
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There are now thousands of WiFi hotspots capable of sustaining data transfer at 11 megabits per second and more that deliver only 1 megabit or so because they are limited by the capacity of the DSL line serving them.
Academic text (2005) -
The test showed that the network could handle up to 50 megabits without issues.
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For online gaming, a stable connection of at least 25 megabits is recommended.
Synonyms
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3.8
A measure of information equal to one million bits
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4.5
A unit of information equal to one million bits used to measure data speed
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Etymology
Megabit is made of two clear parts: mega- meaning 'a million' (as in megabyte) and bit meaning 'binary digit', the smallest piece of digital information. So a megabit is one million bits, which is why people use it to talk about data speed or file size.