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Megabyte

A Megabyte is a measure of computer memory or storage.

It is generally thought of as one million bytes or 1,000 kilobytes. However, to be completely correct, it is actually 1,048,576 bytes or 1,024 kilobytes.

To give you an idea of what a megabyte means, a 3 minute music track in MP3 format is about 3 Megabytes.

Related words: kilobyte, byte

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2020-10