M (Mega)

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An abbreviation for mega or megabyte. (A bit is equivalent to one character; a number of bits is a byte). In computers, a megabyte is equivalent to around one million bytes (1,048,576), and is used to specify the amount of storage available on a disk or in memory. M is also a prefix for capacities and speeds (megabits, megahertz, etc.).