kilobytes
SayKIL-uh-bytsUS/ˈkɪləˌbaɪts/UK/ˈkɪləbaɪts/
- 1Plural of kilobyte.
Each saved document took up only a few kilobytes of disk space.
Early floppy disks stored just a few hundred kilobytes of data.
Note
Two sizes hide behind this plural. Strictly, kilobytes are thousands of bytes, so 5 kilobytes is 5,000. Informally the word also stands for kibibytes, units of 1,024 bytes, and that reading makes the same figure slightly larger. The gap rarely matters for a few saved documents. Where an exact count of bytes is needed, use kibibytes for the 1,024-byte unit and keep kilobytes for multiples of 1,000.
kilobytes is a form of kilobyte
kilobyte, noun: A unit of digital information equal to one thousand (1,000) bytes. Full entry
- Forms
- kilobytekilobytes plural
- Spelling
- kilobyte → kilobytes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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