Meaning & use
KiB
A unit of digital information equal to 1,024 bytes, used in computing to measure data size.
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The text file was only 4 KiB, far smaller than the image beside it.
Early computer memory chips were often measured in KiB rather than gigabytes.
A note on using this word
KiB (kibibyte) is technically distinct from KB (kilobyte), which some contexts use loosely for 1,000 bytes instead of 1,024.
Words with a similar meaning
kibibyte
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