megabit

From mega- +‎ bit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɡəbɪt/

megabit (plural megabits)

1. (computing) One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).
   • 1965, Field Engineering Theory of Operation 2311 Disk Storage Drive, IBM, pages 3–27:

     When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits/sec.

2. (computing) a mebibit.
3. (computing, informal) one megabit per second

   Synonym: Mbps

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• “megabit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From mega- +‎ bit.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɡabɪt]

megabit m inan

1. megabit (one million bits)

• “megabit”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “megabit”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Unadapted borrowing from English megabit. By surface analysis, mega- +‎ bit.

megabit m (invariable)

1. (computing) megabit

Unadapted borrowing from English megabit.

megabit m (plural megabits)

1. (computing) megabit (one million bits)

• Abbreviations: Mbit, Mb

• Multiples of the bit: kilobit, megabit, gigabit, terabit, petabit, exabit, zettabit, yottabit

Borrowed from French mégabit.

megabit m (plural megabiți)

1. megabit

• IPA^(key): /meɡaˈbit/ [me.ɣ̞aˈβ̞it̪]
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: me‧ga‧bit

megabit m (plural megabits)

1. megabit