Kb

Thousand bytes roughly

Kb is an abbreviation for kilobit—one thousand bits of digital data.

It appears most often in measurements of data transfer speed: a connection speed of 56 Kb per second.

Not to be confused with KB (kilobyte), which equals eight kilobits.

computing

kilobyte

Storage measurement unit

memory · storage · file size · data · binary · bit · RAM · capacity · bandwidth · download

biology

kilobase

Thousand nucleotides unit

  • DNAHereditary code molecule
  • base pairsBonded DNA building blocks
  • genomeOrganism's total hereditary material

nucleotide · sequencing · gene · chromosome · plasmid · RNA · molecular biology · genetic · mapping · fragment

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data size scale

Kbterabit

Trillion-bit data unit

Pb · petabit · gigabit · megabit

bit vs byte distinction

KbKB

Data size abbreviation

kilobyte

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