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Kilobyte

Description:

A kilobyte is a unit of digital information storage equal to 1024 bytes. It is commonly used in the field of computing and data storage.

Senses:

1. Noun (Computing): A unit of digital information storage equal to 1024 bytes.
2. Noun (Measurement): A unit of digital information storage equal to 1000 bytes.

Usages:

• Popular Usage: Kilobytes are commonly used to measure file sizes and memory capacities in computers.
• Local Usage: In some specific contexts, kilobytes may refer to a rounded value of 1000 bytes instead of 1024 bytes.

Sample Sentences:

• The file size of the image is 2 kilobytes.
• My computer's hard drive has a capacity of 500 gigabytes, which is equivalent to 500,000 megabytes or 500 million kilobytes.
• During the early days of computing, kilobytes seemed like a large amount of memory.

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