User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology
From the prefix mega-.Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛɡə
Adjective
mega- Very large.
- Great.
Translations
great
- Finnish: mahtava, erinomainen
Related terms
Faroese
Verb
megaIcelandic
Derived terms
- mega betur (to have the upperhand)
- mega vera að (to have the time to do)
- mega sín mikils (have a lot of influence, to be powerful)
- mega sín ekki við (to not manage something)
- mega til (to must, to have to)
- mega lengi lifa
- má vera
- mega sín mikils
- mega ekki
- mega vera að
- mega ekki hugsa til
- eins og nærri má geta
Indonesian
Etymology
From SanskritNoun
megaExtensive Definition
Mega or MEGA may refer to:
In science:
- mega-, the SI prefix for one million
- "megalo-" means "large", coming from a Greek word with that exact meaning. An example of a word with "mega" meaning large is Megalosaurus
- For the very large number, see Steinhaus–Moser notation
In television:
- Red Televisiva Megavisión, the Chilean TV channel "Red Televisiva Megavisión"
- Mega TV (Malaysia), the defunct cable television network
- Mega Channel, the Greek language terrestrial station of Greece and Cyprus
- Mega64, a low-budget series of comedy skits centered around video games
In fiction:
- Mega is the highest level reachable by a Digimon
- Mega, a fictional character from The Tribe played by Calen Maiava Paris
In video games:
- Mega Drive, a video game console
- Mega Man, a video game character and franchise
- Mega Flare has always been the attack of the Final Fantasy series' summon Bahamut.
In computing:
- Molecular Evolution Genetics Analysis (MEGA), a free software package used for manipulating bioinformatic data (gene and protein sequences) and building evolutionary phylogenies. The website is: http://www.megasoftware.net/
- MEGA International, a software company that provides modeling solutions for Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management, and Risk Management
In music:
- Mega Records, a record label
In magazine:
- Mega (magazine), a Sega Mega Drive magazine
In lottery:
- Mega Millions, a major jackpot game in the United States; it rivals Powerball
In trading:
- MEGA Family Shopping Centre, a network of shopping malls in Russia operated by IKEA
Other uses:
- Mega (role-playing game), a French role-playing game (three editions, 1984, 1986, and 1992)
- Mega (religion), a largely unknown, complex, philosophically-grounded religious outlook on the universe and all its tangible and abstract contents as fundamentally unnecessary
- MEGA Post-Graduate Associations (MEGA), various post-graduate associations in university departments around the world
- Little Mega Rifle, bolt-action rifle used in Chinese Civil War
- Aixam-Mega, a French automobile manufacturer based in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie.
Places:
- Mega, Ethiopia, a town in Ethiopia
- MEGA, the recently discovered underwater ruins off the northwest tip of Cuba. It is discussed on this BLOG
Persons:
- Megawati Sukarnoputri, a former Indonesian president
mega in German: Mega
mega in Estonian: Mega
mega in French: Mega (homonymie)
mega in Hebrew: תחיליות במערכת היחידות
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mega in Dutch: Mega
mega in Russian: Мега
mega in Swedish: Mega (olika betydelser)
mega in Ukrainian: Мега
mega in Chinese: 巨