kilobyte

A unit of digital information, commonly used to measure data size or storage capacity, with two standard definitions: 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes.

• 🇩🇪Maßeinheit für digitale Informationsmenge, meist zur Angabe von Daten- oder Speichergröße; üblicherweise 1000 Byte (dezimal, SI) oder 1024 Byte (binär).

1. Decimal kilobyte B1 formal IT

   A unit of digital information equal to 1000 bytes, commonly used for data storage and file sizes.

   • The text file is only 5 kilobytes in size.
   • A kilobyte is often used to measure small amounts of data.
   • Most email attachments are limited to a few kilobytes.

   🇩🇪Dezimales Kilobyte

2. Binary kilobyte B1 formal IT

   A unit of digital information equal to 1024 bytes, often used in computing contexts.

   • In computer memory, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes.
   • The program's memory usage was measured in kilobytes.
   • Older systems often defined a kilobyte as 1024 bytes.

   🇩🇪Binäres Kilobyte

   Synonyme: kibibyte

• kilobytes plural form
• kilobytes' possessive plural form
• kilobyte's possessive singular form