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kbit

kbit is the abbreviation of kilobit.

kbit is the abbreviation of kibibit.

Meaning of kilobit

Noun

kilobit (plural kilobits)

  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.1960, Sproul Robert W, Frequency diversity communications system, US Patent US3214691 A
  2. (rare) a kibibit
  3. (informal) one kilobit per second
    Synonyms:
    kbps

Meaning of kibibit

Noun

kibibit (plural kibibits)

  1. Strictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bits, as opposed to a kilobit.
    Synonyms:
    Kibit

Synonyms of kbit

Questions about kbit

What is kbit the abbreviation of?
Kbit is the abbreviation of kilobit.

Words near kbit in the dictionary

  1. kbaud
  2. KBBQ
  3. KBC
  4. kbd
  5. KBE
  6. kbit
  7. kbity
  8. KBO
  9. KBOs
  10. kbp
  11. kbps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kbit (page history and authors); kilobit (page history and authors); kibibit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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