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Kilobit

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bits.

    "At a 100 kilobit per second information rate, both mark and space signals will generally be transmitted in any 0.0001 sec interval, and therefore this requirement is easily met with conventional resistors and capacitors."

  2. 2
    a unit of information equal to 1000 bits wordnet
  3. 3
    a kibibit rare
  4. 4
    one kilobit per second informal

Etymology

c. 1960, from kilo- (“thousand”) + bit.

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