mib

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noun

A marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.

CommonScrabble 7

Meanings

mib1

nounmib (plural mibs)

plural mibs

  1. gamesA marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.

    He focused on the mib on the edge of the group inside the circle. The blue one was his favourite and he had it right where he wanted it.

    2011, Sean Kelly, “At the Crossroads: A Teacher's Journey to Understanding Classroom Conflict”, in Peter Gouzouasis, editor, Pedagogy in a New Tonality, page 36
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    On my first shot of the last game, I hit two mibs, my shooter and one marble exiting the ring, but leaving a snooger, which is a “commie rat” target marble near the rim of the ring.

    2002, Norah L. Lewis, Freedom to Play: We Made Our Own Fun, page 114

    Thirteen five-eighths-inch marbles (“mibs”) are set in a cross in the center. Each mib should be three inches from its neighboring mib. Each player shoots with a “shooter,” a marble that's one-half to three-quarter inches in diameter.

    2002 May, Sean McCollum, “For All the Marbles”, in Boys' Life, page 28

MIB2

nounMIB (countable and uncountable, plural MIBs)

plural MIBs

  1. USabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableconspiracy theoristshuman sciencesInitialism of man in black.
    1. USabbreviationcountablein pluralinitialismuncountableconspiracy theoristshuman sciencesInitialism of men in black.
  2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablechemistryInitialism of methylisoborneol.
  3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of motion-induced blindness.
adjectiveMIB (not comparable)
  1. initialismnot comparablemint in box

Mib3

symbol
  1. abbreviationcomputingAbbreviation of Mibit.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes

Broader
computer memory unit

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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MLA

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Chicago

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