Kilobyte

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes. especially

    "The data word processor 606 handles the in-flow and out-flow of byte-oriented input/output data and interleaved signals at a rate of, for example, 500 kilobytes per second. Instruction processing rates of four to eight per microsecond are required for such a data flow."

  2. 2
    a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes wordnet
  3. 3
    A kibibyte. informal

    "It is assumed herein that each block includes 32 bytes, each sector includes 1 kilobyte, the buffer memory 116 includes 4 kilobytes, and read data is represented by one double word or 64 bits, as one word in this case consists of 32 bits."

  4. 4
    a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes wordnet

Etymology

Coined in the 1960s, from kilo- (“thousand”) + byte.

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