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1. A combining form or prefix meaning great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm.
2. A million times, a million of; as, megabyte, a million bytes; megawatt, a million watts; megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms.
Origin: Gr. megas, gen. megaloy, great.
(05 Feb 2009)
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