meg
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zerosSynonyms: million1000000one thousand thousand
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Meg- \Meg-\ (m[e^]g-), Mega \Meg"a\ (m[e^]g"[.a]-), Megalo- \Meg"a*lo-\ (m[e^]g"[.a]*l[-o]-). [Gr. me`gas, gen. mega`loy, great.] Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A million times, a million of; as, megabyte, a million butes; megawatt, a million watts; megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms. [1913 Webster +PJC] Megacephalic
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
megabyte meg
<unit, data> (MB, colloquially "meg") A Unit of data equal to one million bytes but see binary prefix for other definitions. A megabyte is 1000^2 bytes or 1000 kilobytes.
The text of a six hundred page paperback book stored as ASCII characters contains about one megabyte of data. The complete King James bible is 5.2 megabytes.
1000 megabytes are one gigabyte.
See prefix.
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The Jargon File
meg /meg/, n.
See quantifiers.