Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation; that is, they are waves of electrical and magnetic energy moving together through space. Electromagnetic radiation spans a broad spectrum from very long radio waves to very short gamma rays.
A MB, which is an abbreviation for a megabyte, is bigger than a KB, which is an abbreviation for a kilobyte. A megabyte is commonly understood to be equivalent to one million bytes, where a byte is equal to eight bits. Where as, a kilobyte consists of one thousand bytes. Continue Reading. A megabyte is one thousand times larger than a kilobyte.
These abbreviations are commonly used to specify how much data can be transferred per second between two points. In some cases, mbps is used as an abbreviation for megabits per second; however, the lowercase m technically means milli not mega, so it doesn't really mean the same thing. To put megabits and Megabytes in perspective, let's back up for just a moment. One bit of data is a single on or off digit, a one or zero.