meg

Thân thiện

A meg is equal to one million.

Definition

Noun: 1. One million: The cardinal number equal to 10⁶, represented numerically as 1,000,000. Note: This is an informal, abbreviated form of "megabyte" or "million," primarily used in computing and casual contexts.

Usage

• As a unit of measurement (computing): Informally represents one megabyte (MB), a unit of digital information storage.
  • This image file is about 2 meg in size.
• As a numerical quantity: Informally represents one million units of something.
  • The company is aiming for revenues of 50 meg this quarter.

Advanced Usage

• "Meg" as a prefix: While "meg-" is a standard prefix (from Greek meaning "great") in words like "megaphone" or "megalith," the standalone noun "meg" is a clipped form.
• In finance or technology journalism, "meg" can be used informally to mean "millions" when discussing figures.
  • The startup secured funding in the low megs.

Variants and Related Words

• Megabyte (n): The full, formal term for a unit of information equal to 1,048,576 bytes (or approximately one million bytes).
  • I need a USB drive with at least 16 gigabytes, which is 16,384 megabytes.
• Mega- (prefix): A combining form meaning "large," "great," or, in the metric system, denoting a factor of one million (e.g., , ).

Synonyms

• Million: The formal term for the number 1,000,000.
• Mil (slang): Another informal abbreviation for "million," often used in finance.

Related Phrases

• Megs of RAM: A common phrase in computing referring to megabytes of Random Access Memory.
  • This old computer only has 512 megs of RAM.
• In the megs: Describing a quantity measured in millions.
  • The view count for the video is already in the megs.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros

Từ đồng nghĩa

• million
• 1000000
• one thousand thousand