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kilobyte

ki·lo·byte

US/ˈkɪloʊˌbaɪt/ uncommon informal

noun

1.

a unit of information equal to one thousand (1024) bytes

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Origin

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

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