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kilobyte

kilobyte noun: one thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.

Noun

kilobyte (plural kilobytes)

  1. (especially) One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.
    • 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.1969, Harold R. Dell, HIGH-DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, US Patent 3638185
  2. (informal, especially RAM) A kibibyte.
    • 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.1969, Hisashi Horikoshi, MEMORY CONTROL SYSTEM, US Patent 3618041

kilobyte meaning in Bengali, Arabic, Malay and Thai

kilobyte in Bengali

kilobyte
কিলোবাইট kilobaiţ

kilobyte in Arabic

1024 bytes
كِيلُوبَايْت kilubayt

kilobyte in Malay

1024 bytes
kilobait

kilobyte in Thai

1024 bytes
กิโลไบต์ gì-loo-bái

Synonyms of kilobyte

Forms of kilobyte

pluralkilobytes

Origin of kilobyte

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

Questions about kilobyte

What does kilobyte mean?
Kilobyte means one thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.
What is kilobyte in Bengali?
Kilobyte in Bengali is কিলোবাইট (kilobaiţ). See Kilobyte meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is kilobyte?
Kilobyte is a noun.
What is the plural of kilobyte?
The plural of kilobyte is kilobytes.

Words near kilobyte in the dictionary

  1. kilobinary
  2. kilobit
  3. kilobits
  4. kilobuck
  5. kilobucks
  6. kilobyte
  7. kilobytes
  8. kilocal
  9. kilocaloric
  10. kilocalorie
  11. kilocalories

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