Coined in the 1960s, fromkilo-(“thousand”) +byte.
kilobyte (pluralkilobytes)
- (computing, especially networking) One thousand (103, or 1,000) bytes.
1969, Harold R. Dell,HIGH-DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM[1],US Patent3638185: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, 500kilobytes per second. Instruction processing rates of four to eight per microsecond are required for such a data flow.
- (computing, informal, especially RAM) Akibibyte.
1969, Hisashi Horikoshi,MEMORY CONTROL SYSTEM[2],US Patent3618041:It is assumed herein that each block includes 32 bytes, each sector includes 1kilobyte, the buffer memory 116 includes 4kilobytes, and read data is represented by one double word or 64 bits, as one word in this case consists of 32 bits.
Fromkilo- +byte.
kilobyte m inan
- kilobyte
Declension ofkilobyte (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
- “kilobyte”, inKartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “byte”, inAkademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech),1995
Fromkilo- +byte.
kilobyte m (invariable)
- (computing)kilobyte
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishkilobyte.
kilobyte m (pluralkilobytes)
- (computing)kilobyte(one thousand bytes)
