Meaning

3 senses
  1. One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bits.

    килоби́тkilobít

    a unit of information equal to 1000 bits

  2. (rare)A kibibit

  3. (informal)One kilobit per second

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
1000 bits:

Origin

c. 1960, from kilo- (“thousand”) + bit.

c. 1960, from kilo- (“thousand”) + bit.

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Forms

plural: kilobits
Singularkilobit
Pluralkilobits

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
kbpskbit
Close in meaning
  • a unit of information equal to 1000 bits:kbitkb

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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