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kilobit en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

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. 1960, Sproul Robert W, Frequency diversity communications system, US Patent US3214691 A:
2. (rare) a kibibit
3. (informal) one kilobit per second

Forms

Coordinates

megabit (Next) · bit (Previous)

Relateds

kilobyte · kibibyte

Synonyms

kbps · kbit

Translations (11)

pl kilobit (1000 bits) · th กิโลบิต (1000 bits) · hu kilobit (1000 bits) · ru килоби́т (1000 bits) · fi kilobitti (1000 bits) · eo kilobito (1000 bits) · it chilobit (1000 bits) · pt kilobit (1000 bits) · cs kilobit (1000 bits) · ko 킬로비트 (1000 bits) · ja キロビット (1000 bits)