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The predicative form is marked by the suffix -u: urbo megu "(the) city is big", lampo pendu "(the) lamp is hanging". On its own before a noun, this u is a copula: formiko u insekto "(the) ant is an insect". Tenses are optional. (See below.) As in Esperanto, the attributive form is marked by the suffix -a: mega urbo "big city", penda lampo ...
The African bush elephant (foreground), Earth's largest extant land animal, and the Masai ostrich (background), one of Earth's largest extant birds. In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals.
mega-: e.g., megacontract and megabioscoop ("a very big contract" and "a very large movie theater") There are also prefixes that can be used for some adjectives: bloed-(blood) : e.g., bloedmooi and bloedeigen ("very beautiful" and "very own") [2] steen-(stone): e.g., steenrijk and steengoed ("very rich" and "very good"; lit. "stone rich" and ...
In some fields of computing, mega may sometimes denote 1 048 576 (2 20) information units, for example, a megabyte, a megaword, but denotes 1 000 000 (10 6) units of other quantities, for example, transfer rates: 1 megabit/s = 1 000 000 bit/s. In the case of 3½-inch floppy disks, sizes were given in megabytes of 1000KB or 1 024 000 bytes. [2]
It is native to a large part of sub-Saharan Africa, [8] and is characterized by its large size, huge ears, long trunk with two finger-like processes and large ivory tusks. [9]: 124 [10] Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Interior of Mitre 10 MEGA, a big-box hardware store in Australia. In Australia, the retail category is known as "large format retail", encompasses bulky goods showrooms and more specialised retail categories within service or Highway commercial type land use zones. In 1969, Kmart Australia opened its first five Big-box type stores across Australia.
Trantor, the capital of an interstellar empire in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, is an ecumenopolis, a planet entirely covered in one huge metal-clad building, with only one small green space: the Emperor's palace grounds. The Ori Supergate seen in a number of episodes of Stargate SG1 could be classed as a megastructure.
Megacorporation, mega-corporation, or megacorp, a term originally coined by Alfred Eichner in his book The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics [1] but popularized by William Gibson, [2] [3] derives from the combination of the prefix mega-with the word corporation. It has become widespread in cyberpunk literature.