Mega-

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It has the unit symbol M. It was confirmed for use in the International System of Units (SI) in 1960. Mega comes from Ancient Greek: μέγας, romanized: mégas, lit. 'great'.

• 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 (SI standard).
• 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: (or megacorpse) is one million human deaths, usually used in reference to projected number of deaths from a nuclear explosion. The term was used by scientists and thinkers who strategized likely outcomes of 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 megametre or the size of a 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)

In some fields of computing, mega may sometimes denote 1,048,576 (2²⁰) of information units, for example, a megabyte, a megaword, but denotes 1000000 (10⁶) units of other quantities, for example, transfer rates: 1megabit/s = 1000000bit/s. The prefix mebi- has been suggested as a prefix for 2²⁰ to avoid ambiguity.

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