COMPUTER MEMORY UNIT
Dictionary entry overview: What does computer memory unit mean?
• COMPUTER MEMORY UNIT (noun)
The noun COMPUTER MEMORY UNIT has 1 sense:
1. a unit for measuring computer memory
Familiarity information: COMPUTER MEMORY UNIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• COMPUTER MEMORY UNIT (noun)
Meaning:
A unit for measuring computer memory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("computer memory unit" is a kind of...):
unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "computer memory unit"):
nibble; nybble (a small byte)
T; TB; terabyte (a unit of information equal to a trillion (1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 1024 gigabytes)
G; GB; gigabyte (a unit of information equal to one billion (1,073,741,824) bytes or 1024 megabytes)
MB; megabyte (a unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes)
K; KB; kilobyte (a unit of information equal to one thousand (1024) bytes)
word (a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory)
partition ((computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit)
allocation unit (a group of sectors on a magnetic disk that can be reserved for the use of a particular file)
block ((computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted)
sector (the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes)
byte (a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information)
petabyte (a unit of information equal to 1,024 terabytes)
