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Definition: Mb |
MbNoun1. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes. 2. (a British degree) a bachelor's degree in medicine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | MB |
Geography | Pressure unit much used in meteorology. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Manitoba
(In Detail) (In Detail) Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Glorious and free) Capital Winnipeg Largest City Winnipeg Area
- Total
- % fresh water8th largest
(6th lgst prov.)
647 797 km²
14.5%Population
- Total (2001)
- DensityRanked 5th
1 150 000
1.78/km²Admittance into
Confederation
- Date
- OrderSplit off
from NWT
12 May 1870
5Time zone UTC -6 Postal information
Postal abbreviation
Postal code prefix
MB
RISO 3166-2 CA-MB Parliamentary
representation
House seats
Senate seats
14
6Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Lieutenant-Governor Peter M. Liba Government of Manitoba Manitoba is one of Canada's provinces and was the fifth province to join Canada (in 1870). Its population is 1 150 000 (Manitobans).
Its capital is Winnipeg. Other towns and cities include Brandon,Thompson, Gilbert Plains, Neelin, Churchill, The Pas, and Portage la Prairie. See also a List of communities in Manitoba.
Geography
Manitoba is located in the longitudinal centre of Canada, one of the Prairie Provinces. It borders on Saskatchewan to the west, Ontario to the east, Nunavut to the north, and the American states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south.
The province has a coast with Hudson Bay, and contains the very large Lakes Winnipeg, Manitoba (its namesake), and Winnipegosis. Important watercourses include the Red River, Assiniboine River, Nelson River, and Churchill River.
The Manitoban climate is severe, though the southern latitudes support extensive agriculture. The northern reaches of the province range through coniferous forests, muskeg, and up to tundra in the far north.
History
Manitoba was settled by members of the Ojibwa and Assiniboine tribes. The first European to reach present-day Manitoba was Thomas Button, who visited the Nelson River in 1612. Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Vérendrye visited the Red River Valley in the 1730s as part of opening the area for French exploration and exploitation. An important French-Canadian population (Franco-Manitobains) still lives in Manitoba, especially in the Saint-Boniface district of Winnipeg.The territory was won by Britain in 1763 as part of the French and Indian War and became part of Rupert's Land, the immense monopoly territory of the Hudson's Bay Company.
The founding of the first agricultural community in 1811 by Lord Selkirk, near modern Winnipeg, resulted in conflict between the white colonists and the Métis who lived near there. A battle in 1816 saw 20 colonists killed by the Métis, including the governor.
When Rupert's Land was ceded to Canada in 1869 (it would become the Northwest Territories), a lack of attention to Métis concerns would lead their leader Louis Riel to establish a provisional government. Negotiations between this government and the Canadian government resulted in the creation of the province of Manitoba and its entry into Confederation in 1870.
Originally the province was only 1/18 of its current size - it was known as the "postage stamp province." It grew progressively, absorbing land from the Northwest Territories until it attained its current size by reaching 60°N in 1912.
See also
- Canada
- List of Canadian provinces and territories
- List of cities in Canada
- List of Manitoba premiers
- List of communities in Manitoba
- List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols
- Louis Riel
- Dominion Land Survey
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Manitoba."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
mb, Mb, and MB may stand for:
¹ Although this is correct usage, capitalisation is often incorrect or completely ignored in many documents, so that the context is more of a clue to what each means.
- Manitoba
- megabit (Mb)¹, or 1,048,576 (220) bits, or 1,000,000 bits
- megabyte (MB)¹, or 1,048,576 (220) bytes, or 1,000,000 bytes
- millibar (mb)¹, a unit of pressure equal to one hectopascal
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mb."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A megabyte is a unit of measurement for computer storage, memory and information; while its exact definition varies, it is approximately equal to one million bytes. The abbreviation for megabyte is MB.
Three definitions for 1 MB are being used:
The definitions of the kilobyte (either 1000 = 103 or 1024 = 210 bytes) and of the gigabyte (either 109 or 230 bytes) have similar ambiguities.
- 1 000 000 bytes or 106 bytes - this is the definition used by telecommunications engineers and storage manufacturers among others. It is consistent with the SI prefix "mega" and is endorsed by international standards bodies.
- 1 048 576 bytes - 1024 times 1024, or 220. This definition is often used in computer science and computer programming, when talking about the size of files or computer memory. The reason is that computers use the binary numeral system internally.
- 1 024 000 bytes - 1024 times 1000. This is an (erroneous) definition used by floppy disk manufacturers.
To reduce the confusion and distinguish between meaning (1) and (2) above, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), adopted an international standard in December 1998 which reserves the term megabyte for 106 bytes and introduces the new term mebibyte (abbreviated as MiB) for 220 bytes. Similarly, the terms kibibyte (KiB, equal to 210 bytes) and gibibyte (GiB, equal to 230 bytes) were introduced. These naming convention, while strongly endorsed by IEEE and CIPM, have not yet been widely accepted, and are simply ignored by most people.
Note the distinction between a megabyte (about one million bytes) and a megabit (about one million bits). A megabit is abbreviated as Mbit (preferably) or as Mb with a lower case "b". There are eight bits in one byte, so a megabyte (MB) is eight times as large as a megabit (Mb or Mbit). Megabits are often used in applications where a serial bitstream is the item of interest, particularly in communications and in specifying the internal data rate of a computer hard drive. In these contexts, one megabit is almost invariably defined as 106 bits. In practice, the abbreviation Mb is frequently encountered as a mistaken notation for MB. In most cases, an examination of the context will indicate which unit of measure was intended.
Similarly, a Gb or Gbit is a gigabit and a kb or kbit is a kilobit: these units too are often written in error when using the "b".
See also
- Integral data type.
External links
- http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
- http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm
- http://www.quinion.com/words/turnsofphrase/tp-kib1.htm
- http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb9903.htm
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Megabyte."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MB | Dutch | Ministerieel Besluit | Law |
MB | English | Megabyte | Computing, Meteorology & Standards |
Mb | German | Muskelhämoglobin | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MbSynonyms: Bachelor of Medicine (n), Megabyte (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mb |
| Specialty definitions using "Mb": 3Station ♦ bits per pixel ♦ chemawinite, CLISP, Creatine Kinase ♦ Delta T, Dynamic Drive Overlay ♦ Get a real computer! ♦ Industry Standard Architecture ♦ Macintosh IIcx, Mini Disc, MPC Level 1 Specification, MPC Level 2 Specification, Multiple Virtual Storage ♦ OS/VS2, OSVS2 ♦ Pentium II Xeon, Potential Temperature, pre\box ♦ QL ♦ ratio site ♦ SB AWE32, Single In-line Memory Module, SPARCsystem 4, SyQuest Technology, Inc. ♦ Total-Totals Index ♦ video random access memory ♦ Windows 2000 ♦ Zip Drive. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mb" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (Mbyte, Mbytes, megabytes), Portuguese (mb, millibar), Swedish (megs). |
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| "Mb 300 SE" by Lucian Binder Commentary: "Mb 300 SE." | "A different type of snow cloud" by Nathan Sudds Commentary: "These clouds almost appeared like snow when we were dropping altittude as we approached Toronto, Ontario via plane <br> <br>Camera: Canon SD 10 4.0 MB." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Providing e-mail boxes, including virtual e-mail boxes, web hosting (providing disk memory for www pages up to 24 MB), creation of www pages, registration of domains, server hosting and providing Intranet/Extranet for companies. (references) | |
In the satellite experiment, in which not only publishers but also printing companies and electronic manufacturers participated, download took a long time, e.g. it took 9 minutes to download 10 MB contents of typical novels, and 20 minutes or more for comics and other contents containing pictures. (references) | ||
The cost of service, suitable for small office, that contains connection of LAN through router, IP address, primary and secondary DNS, www disk of 2 MB, and unlimited access could reach 140 USD. Fixed line connection costs vary from 300 USD per month (28.8 kbps line) up to 1,800 USD per month (256 Kbps line). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mb" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Mb" is used about 144 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 93.75% | 135 | 27,360 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.25% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 144 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| South Africa | MB Technologies Ltd | USA | MB Financial Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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Beginning with "Mb": Mb-caradon, mb-tracs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mb quart | 397 | mb sports | 25 |
mb | 299 | mb sprinter van | 24 |
kb to mb | 95 | 800 mb cd | 24 |
mb motoring | 88 | f mb | 24 |
mb financial | 65 | mb probe | 24 |
50 email free inbox mb | 59 | brandon mb | 24 |
mb motoring wheels | 58 | 128 mb compact flash | 23 |
500 email hosting mb | 57 | 512 mb compact flash card | 23 |
256 mb compact flash | 50 | 8500tvx mb | 23 |
256 mb memory stick | 44 | 256 mb | 22 |
mb quart speaker | 41 | mb web | 21 |
128 mb memory stick | 37 | honda mb | 21 |
willys mb | 36 | e5700 mb | 20 |
winnipeg mb | 33 | conversion kb mb | 19 |
bank financial mb | 32 | mb d100 | 19 |
256 mb compact flash card | 31 | convert kb mb | 19 |
800 mb cd r | 27 | nakamichi mb 75 | 18 |
512 mb compact flash | 27 | 128 mb | 18 |
256 mb sd card | 25 | 128 mb compact flash card | 18 |
mb quartz | 25 | sony 128 mb memory stick | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Mb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | millibar (millibar). (various references) | |
Dutch | millibar (millibar), mbar (millibar). (various references) | |
Finnish | millibaari (millibar). (various references) | |
French | millibar, mb. (various references) | |
German | Millibar (millibar), mbar (millibar). (various references) | |
Greek | χιλιοβαρίδα (millibar). (various references) | |
Italian | millibar (millibar), mb (millibar). (various references) | |
Korean | 메가 바이트. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | mbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | milibar (millibar), mb (millibar). (various references) | |
Spanish | milibar (millibar), bachiller de medicina. (various references) | |
Swedish | millibar (millibar). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Mb": mbira, mbiras. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Mb": aplomb, beachcomb, bedumb, benumb, bomb, breadcrumb, catacomb, chimb, choriamb, climb, clomb, cockscomb, comb, coomb, corymb, coulomb, coxcomb, crumb, currycomb, dithyramb, divebomb, doorjamb, dumb, entomb, enwomb, firebomb, forelimb, gamb, hecatomb, honeycomb, iamb, intomb, jamb, lamb, letterbomb, limb, mailbomb, numb, outclimb, outclomb, plumb, recomb, replumb, rhomb, rhumb, succumb, superbomb, thumb, tomb, upclimb, womb. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Mb": adumbral, adumbrate, adumbrated, adumbrates, adumbrating, adumbration, adumbrations, adumbrative, adumbratively, aeroembolism, aeroembolisms, akimbo, alembic, alembics, ambage, ambages, ambari, ambaries, ambaris, ambary, ambassador, ambassadorial, ambassadors, ambassadorship, ambassadorships, ambassadress, ambassadresses, ambeer, ambeers, amber, ambergris, ambergrises, amberies, amberina, amberinas, amberjack, amberjacks, amberoid, amberoids, ambers, ambery, ambiance, ambiances, ambidexterities, ambidexterity, ambidextrous, ambidextrously, ambience, ambiences, ambient, ambients. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-m" | |
+1 letter: bam, bum, mib, mob. | |
+2 letters: ambo, balm, bams, barm, beam, bema, berm, bima, blam, bomb, boom, brim, bumf, bump, bums, comb, dumb, gamb, iamb, jamb, lamb, limb, mabe, mibs, mobs, numb, tomb, umbo, womb. | |
+3 letters: abamp, abeam, abmho, abohm, aboma, abysm, album, amber, ambit, amble, ambos, ambry, ameba, balms, balmy, barms, barmy, beams, beamy, bedim, begum, bemas, bemix, berme, berms, besom, bimah, bimas, bimbo, biome, blame, blams, blimp, blimy, bloom, blume, bombe, bombs, booms, boomy, bosom, bream, brims, brome, bromo, broom, brume, bumfs, bumph, bumps, bumpy, buxom, chimb, climb, clomb, combe, combo, combs, coomb, crumb, demob, dumbs, embar, embay, embed, ember, embow, gamba, gambe, gambs, gombo, gumbo, iambi, iambs, imbed, imbue, jambe, jambs, jumbo, lambs, lamby, limba, limbi, limbo, limbs, limby, mabes, mamba, mambo, maybe, mbira, nimbi, numbs, omber, ombre, plumb, rhomb, rhumb, rumba, samba, sambo, sebum, thumb, tombs, umbel, umber, umbos, umbra, wombs, womby, zombi. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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