Megabyte
(noun)
Unit of computer storage equal to 1,048,576 bytes (2^20).
Origin:
From greek megas "great" and byte.
Examples:
- The video file is 5 megabytes.
- This USB drive has a capacity of 64 megabytes.
- The computer's RAM is 8 gigabytes or 8,388,608 megabytes.
- The hard drive can store up to 1 terabyte or 1,048,576 megabytes.
- The CD can store up to 700 megabytes of data.