kibibyte

See also: Kibibyte

English

Etymology

From kibi- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪbɪˌbaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

kibibyte (plural kibibytes)

1. (computing) Strictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
   • 2018, Simson L. Garfinkel, Rachel H. Grunspan, The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence‎^[1], New York: Sterling, →ISBN:

     The computer's operating system and applications all fit with within 32 kibibytes of read-only memory (ROM); much of the code in the ROM was personally written by Bill Gates.

Synonyms

• KiB

Coordinate terms

• Previous: byte
• Next: mebibyte

Translations

1,024 bytes

• Esperanto: kibibitoko
• Finnish: kibitavu
• French: kibioctet (fr)
• Georgian: კიბიბაიტი (ḳibibaiṭi)
• German: Kibibyte (de) m
• Japanese: キビバイト (kibibaito)
• Russian: кибиба́йт (ru) m (kibibájt)