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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
kilobyte
noun
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▪ As a result you can end up with a file bordering on the megabytes instead of a few tens of kilobytes.
▪ At the resolution available, a single illustration accounts for 6.25 kilobytes of data.
▪ Even a single, still image at this quality requires about 800 kilobytes of data.
▪ For display through a television, one image needs about 800 kilobytes, making the storage problem even more acute.
▪ The memory is divided into bits, bytes and? or kilobytes.
▪ They are called delta frames and, typically, may consist of no more than 5 kilobytes of data.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kilobyte

1970, from kilo- + byte.

Wiktionary
kilobyte

n. 1 (context computing especially RAM English) A unit of storage capacity, equal to 1024 (210) bytes : a kibibyte. Frequently abbreviated KB. 2 (context computing especially networking English) 1000 (103) bytes. SI Symbol: kB

WordNet
kilobyte

n. a unit of information equal to one thousand (1024) bytes [syn: K, KB]

Wikipedia
Kilobyte

The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix kilo as 1000 (10); therefore one kilobyte is 1000 bytes. The unit symbol for the kilobyte is kB. In information technology kilobyte has traditionally also been used to denote 1024 (2) bytes, which arises from binary exponentiation common to digital circuitry. In this context, the symbols K and KB are often used when 1024 bytes are meant.

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And therefore it must take the same number of kilobytes, to a similar order of magnitude, to store the data.

In form and age she almost seemed a child, but the cool confidence of her tread and the way she measured all of us with a momentary peek, betrayed kilobytes of data about her mental age.