megabit

See also: mégabit

English

Etymology

From mega- +‎ bit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɡəbɪt/

Noun

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

Synonyms

• Mbit

Coordinate terms

• Previous: kilobit
• Next: gigabit

Related terms

• mebibyte
• megabyte

Translations

1,000,000 bits

• Czech: megabit m
• Finnish: megabitti (fi)
• Hungarian: megabit (hu)
• Thai: เมกะบิต

Further reading

• “megabit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Czech

Etymology

From mega- +‎ bit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɡabɪt]

Noun

megabit m inan

1. megabit (one million bits)

Declension

Declension of megabit (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	megabit	megabity
genitive	megabitu	megabitů
dative	megabitu	megabitům
accusative	megabit	megabity
vocative	megabite	megabity
locative	megabitu	megabitech
instrumental	megabitem	megabity

Further reading

• “megabit”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• megabit in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

megabit m (invariable)

1. (computing) megabit

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English megabit.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbi.t͡ʃi/, /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbit͡ʃ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbi.t͡ʃi/, /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbit͡ʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbit͡ʃ/, /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbi.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.ɡɐˈbit/ [ˌmɛ.ɣɐˈβit]

Noun

megabit m (plural megabits)

1. (computing) megabit (one million bits)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: Mbit, Mb

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• mebibit
• megabyte

 

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mégabit.

Noun

megabit m (plural megabiți)

1. megabit

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	megabit	megabitul		megabiți	megabiții
genitive-dative	megabit	megabitului		megabiți	megabiților
vocative	megabitule			megabiților

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

megabit m (plural megabits)

1. megabit