kibibyte
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɪbɪˌbaɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
kibibyte (plural kibibytes)
- (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, 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.