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"word": "мегаба́йт"
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{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "mëgabayt",
"sense": "about a million bytes",
"word": "مېگابايت"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "megabayt",
"sense": "about a million bytes",
"word": "מעגאַבײַט"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"megabyte"
],
"word": "megabyte"
}
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