Units Glossary

Browse 2 units terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Units Terms

Compute Unit

A provider-defined or system-defined unit of compute capacity used for scheduling, billing, or performance abstraction. The exact meaning varies by platform,...

Megabyte

A unit of digital size commonly used to describe file sizes, memory, or transfer amounts, usually meaning about one million bytes in everyday usage. Engineers...

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