KILOBYTE

kilobyte, kibibyte, KB, kB, KiB

(noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes

kilobyte, KB, kB

(noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

kilobyte (plural kilobytes)

(computing, especially RAM) A unit of storage capacity, equal to 1024 (210) bytes : a kibibyte. Frequently abbreviated KB.

(computing, especially networking) 1000 (103) bytes. SI Symbol: kB

Synonyms

• kB, KB, ㎅

Source: Wiktionary



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