Mbps

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noun

megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate

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Mbps1

nounMbps (plural Mbps)

alternative Mb/s

  1. computingmegabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate
  2. biologymillion base pairs

    The main chromosome in E coli^([sic]) is 4.6 million base pairs (4.6 Mbps) in length, ...

    2014, Alison Snape, Despo Papachristodoulou, William H. Elliott, Daphne C. Elliott, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 5th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 343
    2 more examples

    Firstly, the set of mouse EST sequences having no homology to known mouse mRNAs was used (198323 sequences, 75.2 Million base pairs (Mbps)).

    1999, Proceedings of the ... Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology: RECOMB

    The total size of the C. ellipsoidea chromosomes is supposed to be about 40 mega base pairs (Mbps) (7).

    1993, Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering

MBps2

nounMBps (plural MBps)
  1. computingmegabytes per second

    Synonyms: MB/s

Synonyms & antonyms

nounmegabytes per second

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MB/s
Also see
megabit

Translations

French Mo, s
  • Momegabytes per second
  • smegabytes per second

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

MBSP
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