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kibibytes

kibibytes is the plural of kibibyte.

Meaning of kibibyte

Noun

kibibyte (plural kibibytes)

  1. Strictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
    • The computer's operating system and applications all fit with within 32 kibibytes of read-only memory (ROM); much of the code in the ROM was personally written by Bill Gates.2018, Simson L. Garfinkel, Rachel H. Grunspan, The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, New York: Sterling, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    KiB

Questions about kibibytes

What is kibibytes the plural of?
Kibibytes is the plural of kibibyte.

Words near kibibytes in the dictionary

  1. Kibets
  2. kibi-
  3. kibibit
  4. kibibits
  5. kibibyte
  6. kibibytes
  7. kibinago
  8. Kibit
  9. kibitka
  10. kibitkas
  11. kibitz

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