Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 (210) bytes.
- noun One thousand bytes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun computing a
unit ofstorage capacity , 1024 (210)bytes :kibibyte - noun 1000 bytes, though this is the technically accurate definition as an SI unit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes
- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes
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Examples
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However, use of Base 2 when using the word kilobyte, for example, is deprecated.
Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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If you change a single kilobyte out of a 30GB file, rsync will swap just that single kilobyte.
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Verizon told George Vaccaro that bandwidth charges in Canada were .002 cents per kilobyte, but billed him at .002 dollars, or 100 times as much as he was quoted.
Boing Boing 2009
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“There was something about so much per kilobyte downloaded, but one really has no idea what kilobytes are used to check an e-mail,” Sehmer says in the Vancouver Sun post, which adds:
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The truth is that not a single kilobyte flowing through its modern fibers has yet reached our computers.
Yoani Sanchez: Gimme Cable! Yoani Sanchez 2011
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That would be plausible if error were a fixed and uniform entity, like a kilobyte or a quart.
Kathryn Schulz: DeathWish Airways: Alan Greenspan and the 30% Chance of Error 2010
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In any of these scenarios, remember that going online by mistake can incur per-kilobyte charges that might make international-roaming fees look cheap.
Help File: Finding a pared-down smartphone data-service deal isn't easy 2010
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Even "normal" BOL subscribers -- who get 256 kilobyte-per-second connections -- pay $1,500 per month for their subscriptions.
Broadband In Tanzania Opens East Africa To Outsourcing Possibilities 2010
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Fees could range up to 4.55 won (0.4 U.S. cents) per 0.5 kilobyte used.
The iPhoning of Korea Jasper Kim 2010
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Fees could range up to 4.55 won (0.4 U.S. cents) per 0.5 kilobyte used.
The iPhoning of Korea Jasper Kim 2010
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The “correct answer” is that a “kilobyte” (kB) is 1000 bytes and a “kibibyte” (KB) is 1024 bytes.
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