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kilobytes

kilobytes is the plural of kilobyte.

Meaning of kilobyte

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

Questions about kilobytes

What is kilobytes the plural of?
Kilobytes is the plural of kilobyte.

Words near kilobytes in the dictionary

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

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