metabit

/ˈmiːtəbɪt/

Definitions

1. noun

A unit of digital information, equal to one-sixty-fourth of a bit, used in some contexts of computing.

“The system required 1024 metabits to store the encrypted data.”

Synonyms

  • subbinary unit
  • subbit

Antonyms

  • gigabit
  • megabit