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kilobits

kilobits is the plural of kilobit.

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

Questions about kilobits

What is kilobits the plural of?
Kilobits is the plural of kilobit.

Words near kilobits in the dictionary

  1. kilobecquerel
  2. kilobecquerels
  3. kilobequerel
  4. kilobinary
  5. kilobit
  6. kilobits
  7. kilobuck
  8. kilobucks
  9. kilobyte
  10. kilobytes
  11. kilocal

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