kilobyte

[US]/'kiləbait/
[UK]/ˈkɪləˌbaɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. 千字節,1024字節 Byte unit equal to 1024
bytes.

Real-world Examples

In binary, a kilobyte has two to the power of 10 bytes, or 1024.

在二進制中,一千字節有兩個字節的 10 次方,即 1024。

Source: Technology Crash Course

But we only send 19 kilobytes.

但我們只發送 19 KB。

Source: DEFCON Collection

The Voyager's computer systems were only 69 kilobytes large, barely enough for one image, let alone 115.

航海者號的計算機系統只有 69 KB,僅夠一張圖像使用, 更不用說 115 張了。

Source: Space – Verge Science

Just like one kilogram is a thousand grams, 1 kilobyte is a thousand bytes… . or really 8000 bits.

就像一公斤是一千克,一千字節是一千字節… … 。或者真的是 8000 位。

Source: Crash Course Comprehensive Edition

1000 is also right when talking about kilobytes, but we should acknowledge it isn’t the only correct definition.

1000 在談論千字節時也是正確的,但我們應該承認它不是唯一正確的定義。

Source: Technology Crash Course

Or 20 kilobytes minus one byte.

或者 20 KB 減去一個字節。

Source: DEFCON Collection

In total, there are 9 of these, so this memory board could hold a maximum of 9216 bits, which is around 9 kilobytes.

總共有 9 個,因此此內存板最多可容納 9216 位, 即約 9 KB。

Source: Technology Crash Course

So we should be able to read out the first four kilobytes of the ROM.

所以我們應該能夠讀出 ROM 的前 4 KB。

Source: DEFCON Collection

There isn't a lot of space on a processor's chip, so most caches are just kilobytes or maybe megabytes in size, where RAM is usually gigabytes.

處理器芯片上沒有太多空間,因此大多數緩存的大小隻有千字節或兆字節,而 RAM 通常爲千兆字節。

Source: Technology Crash Course

For example, Microsoft's Disk Operating System, or MS-DOS, was just 160 kilobytes, allowing it to fit, as the name suggests, onto a single disk.

例如,Microsoft 的磁盤操作系統,或 MS-DOS,只有 160 KB,顧名思義,它可以安裝在單個磁盤上。

Source: Technology Crash Course

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