kilobyte

American  

[kil-uh-bahyt] / ˈkɪl əˌbaɪt /

noun

Computers.

1. 1024 (210 ) bytes.

2. (loosely) 1000 bytes. K, KB

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kilobyte British  

/ ˈkɪləˌbaɪt /

noun

1. Abbreviation: KB.   kbyte.  computing 1024 bytes See also kilo-

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kilobyte Scientific  

/ kĭl′ə-bīt′ /

1. A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 (that is, 2 ¹⁰) bytes.

2. One thousand bytes.

3. See Note at megabyte

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Etymology

Origin of kilobyte

First recorded in 1965–70; kilo- + byte

Example Sentences

You can no longer think about things in terms of kilobytes or megabytes per second, because the amount of information is context-dependent.

From Salon

So NASA's engineers equipped the vehicles' computers with 69 kilobytes of memory, less than a hundred thousandth the capacity of a typical smartphone.

From Scientific American

You wouldn’t be able to run anything with just 256 kilobytes of memory with modern machines, but those basic specifications were just the beginning.

From The Verge

She returned, kilobyte by kilobyte, her dreamscape refilling as she stabilized.

From Nature

When he opened TikTok, he found approximately 210 network requests in the first nine seconds, totaling over 500 kilobytes of data sent from the app to the Internet.

From Washington Post