noun
- plural of kilobyte: units of computer memory or data storage equal to 1,024 bytes
Usage: computing; technology
Examples
- The document is only 15 kilobytes in size.
- My old computer had just 640 kilobytes of memory.
- The image file was compressed to 200 kilobytes.
- Email attachments are limited to 500 kilobytes.
- The program requires at least 128 kilobytes of free space.
- Text files are usually measured in kilobytes rather than megabytes.