kb

¹ American  

1. kilobar; kilobars.

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Kb ² American  

Computers.

1. kilobit; kilobits.

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KB ³ American  

1. Chess. king's bishop.

2. Computers. kilobyte; kilobytes.

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K.B. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. King's Bench.

2. Knight Bachelor.

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KB ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. (in Britain) King's Bench

2. (in Britain) Knight Bachelor

3. computing kilobyte

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symbol

1. chess king's bishop

Kb ² British  

abbreviation

1. computing kilobit

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kb ³ British  

abbreviation

1. kilobar

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Kb ¹ Scientific  

1. Abbreviation of kilobit

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KB ² Scientific  

1. Abbreviation of kilobyte

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Example Sentences

Luo et al. produced an n = 2 strain containing chromosomes that were each about 6,000 kb long.

From Nature

Subsequently, adjacent bins with the same genotype within a physical distance of 100 kb were merged into larger bins to remove bins with spurious or missing genotypes.

From Nature

A locus was considered to be multi-gene if it contained at least three genes of a specific RGA class with a maximum distance between genes of 300 kb.

From Nature

Features were calculated among rare SNVs within 10 kb of the gene.

From Nature

For one sample, a 5 kb library was discarded as it was error prone and could not be processed by the Allpaths-LG PrepareAllPathsInputs.pl script.

From Nature