Mega-

Common examples of usage

• Megapixel: 1 million pixels in a digital camera
• One megatonne of TNT equivalent amounts to approx. 4 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.
• Megawatt: equal to one million watts of power. It is commonly used to measure the output of power plants, as well as the power consumption of electric locomotives, data centers, and other entities that heavily consume electricity.
• Megadeath: is one million human deaths, usually caused by a nuclear explosion. The term was used by scientists and thinkers who strategized likely outcomes of all-out nuclear warfare.

  Exponentiation

• 1 Mm² means one square megametre or the size of a square of by or, and not .
• 1 Mm³ means one cubic megametre or the size of a cube of by by or 10¹⁸ m³, and not

  Computing