What is the KB?

Definitions of kb on the Web:

* is an abbreviation for 1000 base pairs of DNA or 1000 bases of RNA.
www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/docs/HGSC_glossary.html

* 1 KB (Kilobyte) is 1024 bytes. See BYTE.
www.orafaq.com/glossary/faqglosk.htm

* Unit of length for DNA fragments equal to 1000 nucleotides.
www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/publicat/97pr/09gloss.html

* A thousand bytes. To be more accurate, one kilobyte actually contains 1024 bytes. Since the prefix "kilo" is associated with 1000, the term kilobyte is used to define 1024 bytes.
www.objectivism.addr.com/glossary.htm

* A unit of storage measurement consisting of 1,024 bytes.
www.harddiskrecovery.net/computer_glossary.html

* Kilobase; equal to 1000 base pairs or nucleotides
www.gramene.org/documentation/glossary/

* Stands for "Kilobyte," a unit for measuring the size of data. 1 KB = 1024 bytes.
webhostingrevealed.com/glossary.htm

* Linguistically speaking, a thousand bytes. In practice, a kilobyte generally contains 1,024 bytes.
www.tagnet.org/digitalhymnal/en/glossary_a-l.html

* An abbreviation for Kilobyte or 1,024 bytes (or 2 raised to the 10th power). A byte is 8 bits. A bit is either a one or a zero. The number is 1,024 rather than 1,000 because the math is in base 2 rather than base 10. Back to top
www.integraltech.com/terminology.cfm

* Can be used to mean either a keyboard for a computer or more commonly "KB" means a kilobyte of data.
www.vistek.ca/glossary/default.asp

* One thousand DNA base pairs
www.knowledgene.com/public/glossary_content.php3

* Even though it contains eight bits, a byte still isn't much use alone and it's only when bytes are grouped together that a computer can do something meaningful with them.
www.vnunet.com/features/1146647

* Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes. Used to measure computer memory and storage.
www.openlearningcenter.com/learning/Vocabulary/computer.htm

* Strictly speaking, 1024 bytes. In this report, it is normally used in the colloquial sense of 1000 bytes.
www.olapreport.com/glossary.htm

* a kilobyte is 1042 characters (bytes), roughly equivalent to one page of double-spaced text.
www.worldwidelearn.com/elearning-essentials/elearning-glossary.htm

* 2**10 (hex 400) bytes of data, ie 1,024 bytes.
www.tc.cornell.edu/NR/shared/Edu/Glossary/

* symbol for kilobyte.
www.sgia.org/glossary/Kk.cfm

* A 1000 base fragment of nucleic acid. A kilobase pair is a fragment containing 1000 base pairs.
www.hardydiagnostics.com/Glossary-K.html

* A kilobyte is a storage unit capable of storing 1,024 bytes of information.
www.intensedevelopment.net/website-design-K.html

* Expression used to describe storage capacity or amount of data. One kilobyte is 1024 bytes/characters.
www.dataleach.com/resources/recovery-terms.php

* Kangera Basin Organization
www.tradeport.org/library/k.html

* Kilobytes. A measure of the size of a computer file. 100 KB will download in about 15 seconds when using a 56 kbps connection and will download in about 6 seconds using a broadband connection.
https://www2.dps.state.ny.us/ETS/help/ETSglossary.HTML

* KitBuilders Magazine
www.gremlins.com/garage/terms.html

* A unit of DNA length corresponding to one thousand bases.
www.bscs.org/onco/glossary.htm

* 1 KB = 1,024 bytes
www.mcsx.co.uk/articles/glossary.htm

* kilobyte: a unit of information equal to one thousand (1024) bytes
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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2007-07-18 13:17:54 補充：
MB晒成比BT晒成

KB同MB一樣都係容量既一種,
好似電話裏面D歌都有寫
幾多KB或者幾多MB,
這跟幾多cm幾多m一樣道理,
不過MB既容量大D
希望幫到你!!