Meaning & use
kilobyte
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A unit of digital information equal to 1,024 bytes (or, in some contexts, 1,000 bytes).
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The text file was only a few kilobytes in size.
Early computers had memory measured in kilobytes rather than gigabytes.
A note on using this word
Abbreviated "KB"; much smaller than a megabyte or gigabyte, and now used mainly for very small files like plain text.
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