Mega-

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Mega is a

• Megapixel: 1 million pixels
  in a digital camera
• One megatonne of
  petajoules and is the approximate energy released on igniting one million tonnes of TNT. The unit is often used in measuring the explosive power of nuclear weapons
  .
• Megahertz: frequency of electromagnetic radiation for radio and television broadcasting, GSM, etc. 1 MHz = 1,000,000 Hz
  .
• Megabyte: unit of information equal to one million bytes (SI standard).
• power plants, as well as the power consumption of electric locomotives, data centers
  , and other entities that heavily consume electricity.
• Megadeath: (or megacorpse) is one million human deaths, usually used in reference to projected number of deaths from a
  all-out nuclear warfare
  .

When units occur in exponentiation, such as in square and cubic forms, any multiples-prefix is considered part of the unit, and thus included in the exponentiation.

• 1 Mm² means one square
  square of 1000000m by 1000000m or 10¹²m², and not 1000000square metres
  (10⁶ m²).
• 1 Mm³ means one cubic
  megametre or the size of a cube of 1000000m by 1000000m by 1000000m or 10¹⁸ m³, and not 1000000cubic metres
  (10⁶ m³)

• Binary prefix
• Mebibyte
• Order of magnitude
• RKM code

References

External links

Look up mega- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• BIPM website