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PRONUNCIATION OF KILOBYTE

kilobyte  [ˈkɪləˌbaɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KILOBYTE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kilobyte 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 KILOBYTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kilobyte

The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Although the SI prefix kilo- means 1000, the term kilobyte and symbol KB have historically been used to refer to either 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes, dependent upon context, in the fields of computer science and information technology. For example, when referring to data transfer rates and to disk storage space, "kilobyte" means 1000 bytes. On the other hand, random-access memory capacity such as CPU cache measurements are always stated in multiples of 1024 bytes, due to memory's binary addressing. In the International System of Quantities, the kilobyte is 1000 bytes, while the kibibyte is 1024 bytes. The binary representation of 1024 bytes typically uses the symbol KB, using an upper-case K. Informally sometimes the B is dropped, making K generally understood as 1024 bytes; however, this usage is not standardized and may be found used arbitrarily. All existing recommendations prefer to use the uppercase letter B for byte, because b is used for the bit.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KILOBYTE


backbite
ˈbækˌbaɪt
brontobyte
ˈbrɒntəʊˌbaɪt
cenobite
ˈsiːnəʊˌbaɪt
crossbite
ˈkrɒsˌbaɪt
exabyte
ˈɛksəˌbaɪt
frostbite
ˈfrɒstˌbaɪt
gigabyte
ˈɡɪɡəˌbaɪt
Jacobite
ˈdʒækəˌbaɪt
megabyte
ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt
Moabite
ˈməʊəˌbaɪt
niobite
ˈnaɪəˌbaɪt
overbite
ˈəʊvəˌbaɪt
petabyte
ˈpɛtəˌbaɪt
Rechabite
ˈrɛkəˌbaɪt
snakebite
ˈsneɪkˌbaɪt
terabyte
ˈtɛrəˌbaɪt
trilobite
ˈtraɪləˌbaɪt
underbite
ˈʌndəˌbaɪt
yottabyte
ˈjɒtəˌbaɪt
zettabyte
ˈzɛtəˌbaɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KILOBYTE

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE KILOBYTE

acolyte
adipocyte
astrocyte
byte
electrolyte
erythrocyte
Hippolyte
kbyte
leucocyte
leukocyte
Leyte
lymphocyte
mbyte
monocyte
neophyte
polyelectrolyte
presbyte
proselyte
qubyte
reticulocyte

Synonyms and antonyms of kilobyte in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kilobyte» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KILOBYTE

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

Translator English - Chinese

千字节
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kilobyte
570 millions of speakers

English

kilobyte
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

किलोबाइट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كيلوبايت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

килобайт
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

kilobyte
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কিলোবাইট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

kilo-octet
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kilobyte
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kilobyte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キロバイト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

킬로바이트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kilobyte
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kilobyte
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிலோபைட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

किलोबाइट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kilobayt
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

kilobyte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kilobajt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кілобайт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kilobyte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

kilobyte
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kilogrepe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kilobyte
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kilobyte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kilobyte

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KILOBYTE»

The term «kilobyte» is regularly used and occupies the 60.004 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KILOBYTE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «kilobyte» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «kilobyte» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KILOBYTE»

Discover the use of kilobyte in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kilobyte and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Kilobyte Couture: Geek Chic Jewelry to Make from ...
Provides instructions for making twenty-five jewelry projects using computer components that can be found in local stores, including bracelets, rings, and earrings, enhanced with illustrations.
Brittany Forks, 2009
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Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 19 - ...
At the birth of personal computers , the 8-bit word microprocessor prevailed and the user was served by a total of 64 kilobyte directly accessible memory. Later, some of these systems employed a technique known as "bank switching" to ...
Allen Kent, James G. Williams, 1988
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Kilobyte
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The kilobyte (symbol: kB) is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Code
One thousand twentyfour bytes isknown asa kilobyte, and herein lies much confusion. The prefix kilo (from the Greek khilioi, meaning a thousand)is mostoften usedin the metric system. For example, a kilogram is 1000 grams anda kilometer ...
Charles Petzold, 2000
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EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN
In this processor, the Level 1 (L1) cache comprises 8 kilobyte of memory divided into 4 kilobyte of program cache and 4 kilobyte of data cache. The Level 2 (L2) comprises 256 kilobyte of memory divided into 192 kilobyte of mapped SRAM ...
SANTANU CHATTOPADHYAY, 2013
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Textbook of Information Technology
A collection of 8 bits is known as a byte. The computer's internal memory is organized as a collection of bytes. The size of memory available is measured in kilobytes (KB) or Megabytes (MB). • Kilobyte - A kilobyte (often abbreviated as KB or K) ...
S.k.bansal, 2004
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E-learning Tools and Technologies: A consumer's guide for ...
How big is a kilobyte? Well a kilometer is 1000 meters and a kilogram is 1000 grams, so a kilobyte must be 1000 bytes. Well, almost. Actually a kilobyte is 1024 bytes. The extra 24 are a gift of binary math and hasn't really mattered much since ...
William Horton, Katherine Horton, 2003
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Ethereal Packet Sniffing
The Rotate capture file every... kilobyte(s) textbox and the optional Rotate capture file every... second(s) textbox allow you to choose when the capture files will be rotated.You must provide a kilobyte limit to the size of a capture file in the ring ...
Syngress, 2004
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration: Real World Skills ...
For example, one kilobyte is 1,024 bytes and one megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. You will often see these numbers rounded to say that 1,000 bytes is a kilobyte or 1,000,000 bytes is a megabyte. The term octet could also be used in these ...
Tom Carpenter, James Pyles, 2011
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Computer Jargon Dictionary and Thesaurus
See Also: Byte; Data; Exabyte; Gb; Gigabyte; Kb; Kbyte; Kilobit; Kilobyte; Mb; Mbyte; Megabit; Megabyte; Terabyte; Word; Kb Kilobyte. 1024 bytes or characters . Sometimes referred to as 1K. See Also: Byte; Data; Exabyte; Gb; Gigabyte; K; ...
Eddie Martin, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KILOBYTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kilobyte is used in the context of the following news items.
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Here's What We Know About Pluto So Far - Popular Mechanics
The data from the New Horizons spacecraft is coming back slowly. Very slowly. Transmitting at a current rate of 1 kilobyte per second (though it ... «Popular Mechanics, Jul 15»
2
Dramatic photos of Pluto provide science fodder for years to come
That's how long it will take to send the information three billion miles across the galaxy at the snail's pace of one kilobyte per second. "You can ... «Newsworks.org, Jul 15»
3
New RC4 Encryption Attacks Reduces Plaintext Recovery Time
As far as we know, all issues with RC4 are avoided in protocols that simply discard the first kilobyte of key stream before starting to apply the ... «Military Technologies, Jul 15»
4
The Codes of Modern Life
As well as using fewer base pairs per kilobyte of data, this tack has the added bonus of automated, algorithmic error-correction. “CDs and the ... «NOVA Next, Jul 15»
5
New Horizons: Pluto Is So Much More Than a Pixelated Blob
With data rates of just around 1 kilobyte per second, the data collected during the flyby will take nearly 16 months to get to us, but we'll start ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
6
As New Horizons Reaches Pluto, Arguments Will Be Settled And …
... a fast flyby and subsequent transmission of 64 GB of scientific data at a snail's pace of just 1 kilobyte/second. Starting the day after tomorrow, ... «TechCrunch, Jul 15»
7
Operators hopeful of revenue boost with 4G/LTE services
“We hope that our ARPU per kilobyte will double sometime next year when adoption of 4G smartphones is expected to start taking off,” he told ... «Jakarta Post, Jul 15»
8
Apple Saves Publishing... For Itself
The text of the article could be transmitted in under a kilobyte of data; the rest of the data is the ads, images, and code that surrounds it. «Co.Design, Jul 15»
9
Bitcoin Wallets Changing Fee Structures to Speed Transactions …
The standard bitcoin fee is 0.0001 BTC per kilobyte. However, with so many spam transactions occurring, the standard transaction fee is not ... «Bitcoin Magazine, Jul 15»
10
Team Develops Free, Online Genetic Research Tool
The paper accompanying the website's creation, “From Gigabyte to Kilobyte: A Bioinformatics Protocol for Mining Large RNA-Seq ... «Lab Manager Magazine, Jul 15»

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