Advisory on the wall of a building in New Orleans. Spitting is the act of forcibly ejecting saliva or other substances from the mouth. It is currently considered rude and a social taboo in many parts of the world including the West, while in some other parts of the world it is considered more socially acceptable. It is commonly believed that it is possible to transmit infectious diseases in this way, including tuberculosis, influenza, and the common cold but the epidemiological evidence that this is the case is not present and it is likely that
megabyte - a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes. MB, M. computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory. kilobyte, kB, K - a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes.
(1) When used to describe data storage, 1,048,576 (2 to the 20th power) bytes. Megabyte is frequently abbreviated as M or MB. (2) When used to describe data transfer rates, as in MBps, it refers to one million bytes. PREVIOUS.