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Meg

Verb / meg / Another word for meg — explore alternatives below. For syllable breakdowns and pronunciation, see this word on Syllablesworld.

Definition

a unit of measurement equal to one million; abbreviation for 'megabyte'

Synonyms & similar words

onethousandthousand million million large great huge massive gigantic colossal enormous immense tremendous monstrous astronomical vast big sizeable substantial significant major important

Synonyms by register

Formal

large great huge enormous gigantic

Informal

big huge massive ginormous whopping

Literary

vast colossal monumental

Antonyms

small tiny little miniature petite diminutive

Common collocations

  • meg a byte
  • meg a hertz
  • meg a pixel
  • meg a store
  • meg a mall
  • meg a city

Word family

noun megabyte
adjective mega

Usage note

The prefix 'mega-' is commonly used in computing to denote a factor of one million. It is often used informally to emphasize size or scale.

Example sentences

  1. The company earned a profit of 10 meg dollars last year.
  2. A megabyte can store approximately 500 pages of plain text.
  3. The earthquake registered 7.2 on the Richter scale, which is equivalent to 32 megatons of TNT exploding.
  4. The concert drew a megacrowd of over 100,000 people.
  5. The spacecraft traveled at a speed of 1 megameter per second.

Quotes

  • 'My goal is to run a megamile, which is one million miles, in my lifetime.' - Dean Karnazes
  • 'A megabusiness starts with a megagrowth mindset.' - Pearl Zhu
  • 'A megabyte of memory should be enough for anybody.' - Bill Gates

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