Mbps

See also: MBps

English

Alternative forms

Mb/s

Noun

Mbps (plural Mbps)

(computing) megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate
(genetics) million base pairs
- 2014, Alison Snape; Despo Papachristodoulou; William H. Elliott; Daphne C. Elliott, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 5th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 343:
  The main chromosome in E coli^[sic] is 4.6 million base pairs (4.6 Mbps) in length, ...
- 1999, Proceedings of the ... Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology: RECOMB:
  Firstly, the set of mouse EST sequences having no homology to known mouse mRNAs was used (198323 sequences, 75.2 Million base pairs (Mbps)).
- 1993, Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering:
  The total size of the C. ellipsoidea chromosomes is supposed to be about 40 mega base pairs (Mbps) (7).

Coordinate terms

(computing): bps, kbps, Gbps, Tbps, Pbps, Ebps

Related terms

MBps

See also

megabaud

Anagrams

BMPs, PBMs, PMBs

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