Kilobyte
pronunciation
How to pronounce Kilobyte in British English: UK [ 'kɪləʊ.baɪt]
How to pronounce Kilobyte in American English: US [ 'kɪlə.baɪt]
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- Noun:
- a unit of information equal to one thousand (1024) bytes
Word Origin
- kilobyte (n.)
- 1970, from kilo- + byte.
Example
- 1. Before voyager 2 flew by uranus , simple image-compression software was transmitted to the back-up , allowing a 640 kilobyte picture to be squeezed without loss to as little as 256 kilobytes .