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prefix denoting 1000000 (indicating 10 to the 6th power)
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mega-

Summary

mega- is a SI prefix[1]. mega- draws 204 Wikipedia views per month (si_prefix category, ranking #5 of 23).[2]

Key Facts

  • mega-'s instance of is recorded as SI prefix[3].
  • mega-'s instance of is recorded as UCUM prefix[4].
  • mega-'s follows is recorded as kilo-[5].
  • mega-'s followed by is recorded as giga-[6].
  • mega-'s Commons category is recorded as Mega[7].
  • mega-'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1873-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • mega-'s Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0506r[9].
  • mega-'s numeric value is recorded as {'amount': '+1000000'}[10].
  • mega-'s described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[11].
  • mega-'s different from is recorded as Mega[12].
  • mega-'s different from is recorded as mebi-[13].
  • mega-'s defining formula is recorded as 10^{6}[14].
  • mega-'s Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2196700[15].
  • mega-'s wurvoc.org measure ID is recorded as mega[16].
  • mega-'s Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as techologie-en-techniek/mega[17].
  • mega-'s Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as mega[18].
  • mega-'s Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 064391[19].
  • mega-'s unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'M'}[20].
  • mega-'s unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'М'}[21].
  • mega-'s World of Physics ID is recorded as Mega[22].
  • mega-'s maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[23].
  • mega-'s Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2781078984[24].
  • mega-'s ProofWiki ID is recorded as Definition:Metric_System/Scaling_Prefixes/mega-[25].
  • mega-'s Wolfram Language unit code is recorded as "Mega"[26].
  • mega-'s UCUM code is recorded as M[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for mega- include megawatt[28], an unit of power[29].

Why It Matters

mega- draws 204 Wikipedia views per month (si_prefix category, ranking #5 of 23).[2] mega- has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] mega- is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for mega- include megawatt[28], an unit of power[29].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . ISO 80000-1:2009 Quantities and units—Part 1: General. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . ISO 80000-1:2009 Quantities and units—Part 1: General. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . ISO 80000-1:2009 Quantities and units—Part 1: General. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . ISO 80000-1:2009 Quantities and units—Part 1: General. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Logopedia. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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