Dictionary

kibibyte en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɪbɪˌbaɪt/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From kibi- + byte.

Meanings

1. Strictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
   • The computer's operating system and applications all fit with within 32 kibibytes of read-only memory (ROM); much of the code in the ROM was personally written by Bill Gates. 2018, Simson L. Garfinkel, Rachel H. Grunspan, The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, New York: Sterling, →ISBN:

Forms

Coordinates

byte (Previous) · mebibyte (Next)

Synonyms

KiB

Translations (10)

cmn KiB (1,024 bytes) · fi kibitavu (1,024 bytes) · de Kibibyte (1,024 bytes) · eo kibibitoko (1,024 bytes) · fr kibioctet (1,024 bytes) · cmn 千比字節 /千比字节 (1,024 bytes) · ja キビバイト (1,024 bytes) · ko 키비바이트 (1,024 bytes) · ru кибиба́йт (1,024 bytes) · ka კიბიბაიტი (1,024 bytes)