kilobyte

See also: Kilobyte

English

Etymology

Coined in the 1960s, from kilo- (“thousand”) +‎ byte.

Noun

kilobyte (plural kilobytes)

1. (computing, especially RAM) A unit of storage capacity, equal to 1024 (2¹⁰) bytes : a kibibyte. Frequently abbreviated KB.
2. (computing, especially networking) 1000 (10³) bytes. SI Symbol: kB

Synonyms

• kB, KB, ㎅

Related terms

• Previous: byte
• Next: megabyte
• kibibyte
• kilobit

Translations

1024 bytes

• Arabic: كِيلُوبَايْت m (kilubayt)
• Catalan: quilooctet m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 千字節／千字节 (zh) (qiānzìjié), 千字节 (zh) (qiānzìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) KB

• Esperanto: kilobajto, kilobitoko
• Finnish: kilotavu
• French: kilooctet (fr) m
• Georgian: კილობაიტი (ḳilobaiṭi)
• German: Kilobyte (de) n
• Greek: κιλομπάιτ n (kilompáit), χιλιοδυφιοσυλλαβή n (chiliodyfiosyllaví)
• Hungarian: kilobájt (hu)
• Italian: kilobyte (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: キロバイト (kirobaito)
• Korean: 킬로바이트 (ko) (killobaiteu)
• Malay: kilobait
• Navajo: kiiłtsohʼííłké
• Norman: kilobouochie f
• Portuguese: kilobyte m
• Romanian: kilobyte m, kilooctet m
• Russian: килоба́йт (ru) m (kilobájt)
• Spanish: kilobyte (es) m
• Swedish: kilobyte (sv)
• Thai: กิโลไบต์ (gì-loo-bái)
• Uyghur: كىلوبايت (kilobayt)

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

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Italian

Etymology

kilo- +‎ byte

Noun

kilobyte m (uncountable)

1. (computing) kilobyte

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English kilobyte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkiloˈbajt(ʃ)(i)/

Noun

kilobyte m (plural kilobytes)

1. (computing) kilobyte (one thousand bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: KB, kB

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• kilobit
• kebibyte