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    kb
    kilobar; kilobars.
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    Kb
    kilobit; kilobits.
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    KB
    king's bishop.
  • K.B.
    K.B.
    abbreviation
    King's Bench.

kb

1 American  

  1. kilobar; kilobars.

Kb 2 American  
Computers.

  1. kilobit; kilobits.

KB 3 American  

  1. Chess. king's bishop.

  2. Computers. kilobyte; kilobytes.

K.B. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. King's Bench.

  2. Knight Bachelor.

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

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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

KB 2 Scientific  

  1. Abbreviation of kilobyte

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A mean molecule length of 31.39 kb and mean of 21 linked reads per molecule were obtained.

From Nature • May 8, 2018

The average overlap between adjacent BAC clones was ~25 kb, and the overall genomic span for each pool averaged ~1 Mb.

From Nature • Nov. 14, 2017

A minimum of three RGAs of the same class that were less than 300 kb apart were arbitrarily considered forming a multi-gene locus.

From Nature • Nov. 14, 2017

This dataset included 84 libraries, from which we used six libraries of mate-paired reads from fragments ranging in length from 1.6 to 8.6 kb, with an average read length of 89 bp.

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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