Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mbps

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English

Syllables: mbps
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate

noun

million base pairs

noun

megabytes per second

Example Sentences

"The main chromosome in E coli^([sic]) is 4.6 million base pairs (4.6 Mbps) in length, ..."
"Firstly, the set of mouse EST sequences having no homology to known mouse mRNAs was used (198323 sequences, 75.2 Million base pairs (Mbps))."
"The total size of the C. ellipsoidea chromosomes is supposed to be about 40 mega base pairs (Mbps) (7)."

Inflected Forms

Mb/s (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

MBps megabaud bps kbps Gbps Tbps Pbps Ebps

Synonyms

MB/s

Questions

What does mbps mean?: megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate

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