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megabyte

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Megabyte (noun) means a unit of computer data equal to one million bytes.

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A unit of computer data equal to one million bytes.

"The overage charge on this plan has been reduced to 10 cents per megabyte over the limit. Previously, the company charged 25 cents per megabyte for overages." — Marguerite Reardon, Verizon Netbook to hit stores this weekend (2009)

"The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second." — System/360 System Summary, IBM (1964)

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