kilobyte

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

kilobyte (plural kilobytes)

  1. (computing, especially networking) One thousand (103, or 1,000) bytes.
    • 1969, Harold R. Dell, HIGH-DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM‎, US Patent 3638185:
      The data word processor 606 handles the in-flow and out-flow of byte-oriented input/output data and interleaved signals at a rate of, for example, 500 kilobytes per second. Instruction processing rates of four to eight per microsecond are required for such a data flow.
  2. (computing, informal, especially RAM) a kibibyte.
    • 1969, Hisashi Horikoshi, MEMORY CONTROL SYSTEM‎, US Patent 3618041:
      It is assumed herein that each block includes 32 bytes, each sector includes 1 kilobyte, the buffer memory 116 includes 4 kilobytes, and read data is represented by one double word or 64 bits, as one word in this case consists of 32 bits.

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Translations

Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

Noun

kilobyte m inan

  1. kilobyte

Declension

Declension of kilobyte (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
singular plural
nominative kilobyte kilobyty
genitive kilobytu kilobytů
dative kilobytu kilobytům
accusative kilobyte kilobyty
vocative kilobyte kilobyty
locative kilobytu kilobytech
instrumental kilobytem kilobyty

Further reading

  • “kilobyte”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Italian

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ byte.

Noun

kilobyte m (invariable)

  1. (computing) kilobyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English kilobyte.

Pronunciation

Noun

kilobyte m (plural kilobytes)

  1. (computing) kilobyte (one thousand bytes)

Synonyms

  • Abbreviations: KB, kB

Coordinate terms

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