Meaning of the word megabyte in English

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megabyte

US /ˈmeɡ.ə.baɪt/
UK /ˈmeɡ.ə.baɪt/
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Noun

1.

a unit of information equal to one million (10^6) bytes or, archaically, 1,048,576 (2^20) bytes.

Example:
The file size is 50 megabytes.
This old hard drive has only 256 megabytes of storage.
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