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)
Fromkilo- +byte.
kilobyte m (invariable)
- (computing)kilobyte
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishkilobyte, equivalent tokilo- +byte.
kilobyte m (pluralkilobytes)
- (computing)kilobyte(one thousand bytes)
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishkilobyte, equivalent tokilo- +byte.
- IPA(key): /kiloˈbait/[ki.loˈβ̞ai̯t̪]
- Rhymes:-ait
- Syllabification:ki‧lo‧byte
kilobyte m (pluralkilobytes)
- (computing)kilobyte
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
