kb

Noun
Synonyms: kilobitkbitkilobyteKkibibyteKiB

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. a unit of information equal to 1000 bitsSynonyms: kilobitkbit
  2. a unit of information equal to 1000 bytesSynonyms: kilobyteK
  3. a unit of information equal to 1024 bytesSynonyms: kilobytekibibyteKKiB
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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

kilobyte KB

<unit, data> (KB) A unit of data equal to 1000 bytes (but see binary prefix for other definitions).

One kilobyte is the amount of data in 1000 ASCII (or UTF-8) characters or about 250 English words (whose average length is about four characters).

1000 kilobytes are one megabyte.

(2014-07-21)

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