kilobyte

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

kilobyte
    n 1: a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes [syn: {kilobyte},
         {K}, {KB}, {kB}]
    2: a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes [syn: {kilobyte},
       {kibibyte}, {K}, {KB}, {kB}, {KiB}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

kilobyte
KB

   <unit> (KB) 2^10 = 1024 {bytes}.

   See {prefix}.

   (1995-09-29)