kilobyte

  1. (especially) One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.
  2. (informal) A kibibyte.

Etymology

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

kilobyte

kilobyte

kilobajt

kB

kilooctet

KB

KB

kilobyte

kilo-octet

chilobyte

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