kilobit

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Definition of kilobit

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bits.
    “At a 100 kilobit per second information rate, both mark and space signals will generally be transmitted in any 0.0001 sec interval, and therefore this requirement is easily met with conventional resistors and capacitors.”
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noun

  1. One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bits.
    “At a 100 kilobit per second information rate, both mark and space signals will generally be transmitted in any 0.0001 sec interval, and therefore this requirement is easily met with conventional resistors and capacitors.”
  2. (rare)a kibibit
  3. (informal)one kilobit per second

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Etymology

c. 1960, from kilo- (“thousand”) + bit.

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