Kilobyte (Noun)
Meaning 1
A unit of information equal to 1000 bytes.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The text file was only a few kilobytes in size, so it downloaded quickly over the slow internet connection.
- A typical digital photo can take up several megabytes, but an old low-resolution image might be only a few kilobytes.
- The ancient computer had a hard drive that could store a whopping 20 megabytes, which was equivalent to 20,000 kilobytes.
- The software required a minimum of 512 kilobytes of free memory to run smoothly on the user's system.
- The small executable file was less than a kilobyte in size, making it easy to distribute via email or instant messaging.