"mebibyte" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmɛbɪˌbaɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mebibyte.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mebibytes [plural]
Etymology: mebi- + byte Etymology templates: {{pre|en|mebi|byte}} mebi- + byte Head templates: {{en-noun}} mebibyte (plural mebibytes)
  1. (computing) Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte. Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: MiB Coordinate_terms (Next): gibibyte Coordinate_terms (Previous): kibibyte Translations (1,048,576 bytes): mebibitoko (Esperanto), mebitavu (Finnish), mébioctet (French), მებიბაიტი (mebibaiṭi) (Georgian), Mebibyte [neuter] (German), メビバイト (mebibaito) (Japanese), мебиба́йт (mebibájt) [masculine] (Russian)

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