kb
kilobar; kilobars.
kb
1 American
Kb
2
American
Computers.
KB
3
American
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Chess. king's bishop.
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Computers. kilobyte; kilobytes.
K.B.
4
American
abbreviation
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King's Bench.
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Knight Bachelor.
KB
1
British
abbreviation
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(in Britain) King's Bench
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(in Britain) Knight Bachelor
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computing kilobyte
symbol
Kb
2
British
abbreviation
kb
3
British
abbreviation
Kb
1
Scientific
KB
2
Scientific
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Luo et al. produced an n = 2 strain containing chromosomes that were each about 6,000 kb long.
From Nature • Jul. 31, 2018
Finally, we connected the BAC sequences iteratively into contigs based on their overlapping relationship within FPC contig, and obtained 5.33 Gb in total length with a contig N50 of 183 kb.
From Nature • May 8, 2018
A mean molecule length of 31.39 kb and mean of 21 linked reads per molecule were obtained.
From Nature • May 8, 2018
These gap-closing steps increased the contig N50 size, from 16.4 to 88.3 kb.
From Nature • Nov. 14, 2017
Assuming any point and calling it a, draw ak parallel and equal to BA in the initial configuration, and from k draw kb parallel and equal to A′B′ in the final configuration.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
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