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megabyte

unit of digital information equal to one million bytes or 1,000 kilobytes
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Summary

megabyte is an unit of information[1]. megabyte draws 3,177 Wikipedia views per month (unit of information category, ranking #5 of 38).[2]

Key Facts

  • Measured physical quantity: information[3]
  • Commons category: Megabyte[4]
  • Different from: mebibyte[5]
  • Conversion to standard unit: 1,000,000 byte[6], 1000 kilobyte[7], 8,000,000 bit[8], 0.9536743164 mebibyte[9]
  • Unit symbol: MB[10], МБ[11], Мбайт[12], Mt[13], Mo[14], ميغابايت[15]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics[16]
  • Subdivision of this unit: kilobyte[17]

Why It Matters

megabyte has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] megabyte is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . International Electrotechnical Commission. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . GOST 8.417. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . GOST 8.417. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_megabyte_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{megabyte}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/megabyte}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-16}}
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