kilobyte

noun

Etymology: Coined in the 1960s, from kilo- (“thousand”) + byte.

1. One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.

   “The data word processor 606 handles the in-flow and out-flow of byte-oriented input/output data and interleaved signals at a rate of, for example, 500 kilobytes per second. Instruction processing rates of four to eight per microsecond are required for such a data flow.”

2. A kibibyte.

   “It is assumed herein that each block includes 32 bytes, each sector includes 1 kilobyte, the buffer memory 116 includes 4 kilobytes, and read data is represented by one double word or 64 bits, as one word in this case consists of 32 bits.”