English Explanatory Dictionary

kilobyte

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.
  2. A kibibyte.

Pronunciation

En-us-kilobyte.oga

Word forms

kilobyte kilobytes

Etymology

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

Synonyms

kB ㎅

Related words

kibibit kilobit
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