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Noun: kilobyte  'ki-lu,bIt
  1. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes
    "The small text file was only a few kilobytes in size";
    - kibibyte, K, KB, kB, KiB
     
  2. A unit of information equal to 1000 bytes
    "The text file was only a few kilobytes in size";
    - K, KB, kB

Derived forms: kilobytes

Type of: computer memory unit

Part of: M, MB, mebibyte, megabyte, MiB

Encyclopedia: Kilobyte