kilobyte
/ˈkɪləbaɪt/
noun
- A unit of digital information equal to 1,024 bytes (or sometimes 1,000 bytes), used to measure file size or memory capacity.
- Each kilobyte of storage space was precious in the early days of computing.
- My first computer had a hard drive that could hold just 20 kilobytes of data.
- The text document was only a few kilobytes, so it downloaded instantly.