kilobyte

[US]/'kiləbait/
[UK]/ˈkɪləˌbaɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. Kilobyte, a unit of data equal to 1024 bytes.

Real-world Examples

In binary, a kilobyte has two to the power of 10 bytes, or 1024.

Source: Technology Crash Course

But we only send 19 kilobytes.

Source: DEFCON Collection

The Voyager's computer systems were only 69 kilobytes large, barely enough for one image, let alone 115.

Source: Space – Verge Science

Just like one kilogram is a thousand grams, 1 kilobyte is a thousand bytes… . or really 8000 bits.

Source: Crash Course Comprehensive Edition

1000 is also right when talking about kilobytes, but we should acknowledge it isn’t the only correct definition.

Source: Technology Crash Course

Or 20 kilobytes minus one byte.

Source: DEFCON Collection

In total, there are 9 of these, so this memory board could hold a maximum of 9216 bits, which is around 9 kilobytes.

Source: Technology Crash Course

So we should be able to read out the first four kilobytes of the ROM.

Source: DEFCON Collection

There isn't a lot of space on a processor's chip, so most caches are just kilobytes or maybe megabytes in size, where RAM is usually gigabytes.

Source: Technology Crash Course

For example, Microsoft's Disk Operating System, or MS-DOS, was just 160 kilobytes, allowing it to fit, as the name suggests, onto a single disk.

Source: Technology Crash Course

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