mb

Other forms of mb

plural

mbs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mb

What does mb mean?

mb means "a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,000) bits". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mb?

mb has 1 syllable: mb.

What is another word for mb?

Close synonyms include megabit, Mbit, megabyte, M, megabyte. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mb a common word?

mb is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.