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Meaning of "kilobit" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF KILOBIT

kilobit  [ˈkɪləˌbɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KILOBIT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kilobit is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KILOBIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kilobit

The kilobit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage. The prefix kilo is defined in the International System of Units as a multiplier of 103, and therefore, 1 kilobit = 103bits = 1000bits. The kilobit has the unit symbol kbit or kb. Using the common byte size of 8 bits, 1 kbit is equal to 125 bytes. The kilobit is closely related to the kibibit, a unit multiple derived from the binary prefix kibi of the same order of magnitude, which is equal to 210bits = 1024bits, or approximately 2% larger than the kilobit. Despite the definitions of these new prefixes for binary-based quantities of storage by international standards organizations, memory semiconductor chips are still marketed using the metric prefix names to designate binary multiples. The kilobit is most commonly used in the expression of data rates of digital communication circuits as kilobits per second, or abbreviated as kbps, as in, for example, a 56 kbps PSTN circuit, or a 512 kbit/s broadband Internet connection. The unit symbol kb is typographically similar to unit symbols of the kilobyte, i.e. kB, with an upper case B.

Definition of kilobit in the English dictionary

The definition of kilobit in the dictionary is 1000 bits. Other definition of kilobit is 1024 bits.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KILOBIT


bit
bɪt
debit
ˈdɛbɪt
exhibit
ɪɡˈzɪbɪt
forebitt
ˈfɔːˌbɪt
gambit
ˈɡæmbɪt
gigabit
ˈɡɪɡəˌbɪt
habit
ˈhæbɪt
hawkbit
ˈhɔːkˌbɪt
henbit
ˈhɛnˌbɪt
hobbit
ˈhɒbɪt
inhibit
ɪnˈhɪbɪt
megabit
ˈmɛɡəˌbɪt
orbit
ˈɔːbɪt
probate
ˈprəʊbɪt
prohibit
prəˈhɪbɪt
rabbit
ˈræbɪt
ringbit
ˈrɪŋˌbɪt
snakebit
ˈsneɪkˌbɪt
tidbit
ˈtɪdˌbɪt
titbit
ˈtɪtˌbɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KILOBIT

kilo
kilobar
kilobase
kilobaud
kilobyte
kilocalorie
kilocurie
kilocycle
kilogauss
kilogram
kilogram calorie
kilogramme
kilogray
kilohertz
kilojoule
kilolitre
kilometre
kilometric
kilometrical
kilomole

WORDS THAT END LIKE KILOBIT

a bit
ambit
bit by bit
bunny rabbit
cubit
direct debit
every bit
inhabit
jack rabbit
Nesbit
not a bit
oobit
post-obit
probit
qubit
rarebit
snaffle bit
Tobit
wait-a-bit
white rabbit

Synonyms and antonyms of kilobit in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kilobit» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KILOBIT

Find out the translation of kilobit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kilobit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kilobit» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

千位
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kilobit
570 millions of speakers

English

kilobit
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kilobit
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكيلوبت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

килобит
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

kilobit
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কিলোবাইট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

kilobits
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kilobit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kilobit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キロビット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

킬로 비트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kilobit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kilobit
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிலோபிட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

किलोबिट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kilobit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

kilobit
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kilobit
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кілобіт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kilobit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χιλιομπιτ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kilobit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kilobit
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kilobit
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kilobit

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KILOBIT»

The term «kilobit» is regularly used and occupies the 101.817 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KILOBIT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kilobit

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KILOBIT»

Discover the use of kilobit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kilobit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Elements of Applied Probability: For Engineering, ...
1.5 A Probability Primer We describe the equiprobable model associated with an example in data transmission. Imagine that data is generated in one, five or ten kilobit packets. On average one kilobit packets are three times more likely than ...
David McDonald, 2004
2
Foreign and domestic accomplishments in magnetic bubble ...
The recent announcement by Hitachi of their 64 kilobit memory chip is a strong indication of the present capability in Japan. The formal announcement to be given within the near future will claim that the Japanese device is "among the best in ...
Robert B. J. Warnar, Peter J. Calomeris, 1977
3
Science Under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective
The 64-kilobit templates were also to disappear. In addition, they asked for assurances that institutes in the GDR would not produce 64-kilobit and 256- kilobit chips using Toshiba technology. On February 9 representatives of Toshiba and ...
Kristie Macrakis, Dieter Hoffmann, 1999
4
Korean Businesses: Internal and External Industrialization
SEC's solution was to hire more US-trained Asian engineers, mostly Korean and ethnic Chinese, who succeeded in producing the 64 kilobit chip and, later, the 256 kilobit DRAM, in-house. In 1984, SEC began production of 64 kilobit DRAMs  ...
Chris Rowley, Johngseok Bae, 1998
5
InfoWorld
Since October 1, the price Quadram pays for both 64-kilobit and 256-kilobit DRAMs has gone up about 10 to 15 percent, he said. Other add-on board makers that use large numbers of DRAM chips — including AST Research of Irvine, ...
6
NFPA's Pocket Dictionary of Electrical Terms
Abbreviation for Kilobit. kB. Abbreviation for Kilobyte. kbps. Abbreviation for Kilobits per Second. kcmil. Conductor size designation indicating one thousand circular mils. 250 kcmil indicates a conductor size of 250,000 circular mils; 500 kcmil, ...
H. Brooke Stauffer, 2005
7
PC Mag
The basic board has space for four 18chip banks of DRAM in either 64-kilobit or 256-kilobit chips, which can be mixed under some circumstances. All memory in the extended address area must be of a single-chip size. You can use various ...
8
Encyclopedia Of Information Technology
Kb - Kilobit A kilobit is a unit of information storage, abbreviated kbit or ' sometimes kb that measures the amount of data transferred in a second between two telecommunication points. Kilobits per second is usually shortened to Kbps. It is used ...
Atlantic, 2007
9
Security Protocols XIX: 19th International Workshop, ...
I propose to partition my crypto cake into two layers, the red one and the blue one , and the red one I slice thinly, about a kilobit each slice, and the blue one I keep in one lump, so this red is half of the shared terabyte and this blue is the rest.
Bruce Christianson, Bruno Crispo, James Malcolm, 2011
10
Flight to Mercury
The 44 kilobit capability is dropped, leaving 22 kilobits as the only "guaranteed" rate for the encounter with Mercury and consequently a very poor photo coverage . The optical system for earlier Mariners had been designed to photograph Mars,  ...
Bruce Murray, Eric Burgess, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KILOBIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kilobit is used in the context of the following news items.
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New Horizons probe zooms into Pluto's plains - BBC News
... billion km) and the modest transmitter/antenna system (12 watts) onboard makes for very slow bit rates - an average of one kilobit per second ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
NEW HORIZONS PLUTO EXPEDITION
PATIENCE, GRASSHOPPER Because it's so far away, it takes 4 1/2 hours to transmit data back, at a snail's pace of about 1 kilobit per second. It can take 42 ... «Omaha World-Herald, Jul 15»
3
Welcome to Pluto, home to Rockies-sized mountains - PBS
Well, half as fast as that, 1,000 baud, one kilobit per second. So it is going to take a while to get all this data in. But it's filled with spectrometers ... «PBS NewsHour, Jul 15»
4
It's Alive! New Horizons Has Survived Its Date With Pluto
In the coming hours, days, and weeks, New Horizons will continue to send back its bounty of data, kilobit by kilobit. The pictures you've seen ... «Wired, Jul 15»
5
New Horizons will stay busy after its moment in the spotlight
This is a slow process, with only about 1 kilobit per second possible due to the weak signal arriving from 3 billion miles away. For instance: a ... «WRAL.com, Jul 15»
6
Apple Music - Streaming and screaming at the bugs
... Music uses, saying only that it adjusts the quality to the connection; the songs appear to be encoded with 256 kilobit per second bit rate AAC. «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
7
The New Horizons Pluto flyby: what to expect
The reason they're taking so long is because of New Horizons' extremely low rate of data transmission: about 1 kilobit per second, more than ... «Vox, Jul 15»
8
Fort Smith Schools The First To Go Online Under Two-Year …
Don McDaniel at the Department of Information Systems told state Representative Charlotte Douglass (R-Alma) that's up from a 100 kilobit ... «KUAR, Jul 15»
9
I kveld kommer nærbildene av Pluto
... forøvrig en utrolig lav overføringshastighet på grunn av avstanden til jorden, og sender data med en hastighet på om lag 1 kilobit i sekundet. «Aftenposten, Jul 15»
10
Bernie Badger: Pluto looms ever closer in probe's lens
... extreme distance (about 3.7 billion miles) means that it doesn't have a high-speed data connection. It is limited to about 1 kilobit per second. «Florida Today, Jul 15»

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