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- noun Plural form of
kilobyte .
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Examples
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For India, the promise of the Internet might have to be measured in kilobytes rather than in megabytes.
India's Internet Promise Harsh Joshi 2010
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For the geekier set, bits in kilobytes (155473 bytes in kilobytes) and numbers in hex or binary (19 in binary) are also pretty useful.
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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You 512 kilobit or 64 kilobyte connection usually averages about 411 down by 64 up if we are talking kilobits or 51 down by 8 up if we are talking in kilobytes (Lakeside)
Internet Speed 2006
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Well, instead of this file being 3 megabytes in size, when zipped up, or compressed, it may only be, say, 500 kilobytes, which is only half of one megabyte.
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We feel as if we're abandoned and motionless by the side of the expressway, with ever faster and unattainable kilobytes speeding by us.
Yoani Sanchez: Internet for Cubans: A Permanently Impossible Dream? Yoani Sanchez 2012
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This censor of kilobytes and his bosses have every right to fear these virtual sites, where as individuals we can meet outside the controls of the State, the Party and the ideologues.
Yoani Sanchez: Egypt 2.0 Yoani Sanchez 2011
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On the bottom of the screen a banner announces that I'm navigating at 41 kilobytes a second.
Yoani Sanchez: My Blog Is Once Again Visible In Cuba Yoani Sanchez 2011
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This censor of kilobytes and his bosses have every right to fear these virtual sites, where as individuals we can meet outside the controls of the State, the Party and the ideologues.
Yoani Sanchez: Egypt 2.0 Yoani Sanchez 2011
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We feel as if we're abandoned and motionless by the side of the expressway, with ever faster and unattainable kilobytes speeding by us.
Yoani Sanchez: Internet for Cubans: A Permanently Impossible Dream? Yoani Sanchez 2012
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We feel as if we're abandoned and motionless by the side of the expressway, with ever faster and unattainable kilobytes speeding by us.
Yoani Sanchez: Internet for Cubans: A Permanently Impossible Dream? Yoani Sanchez 2012
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