"kibibyte" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkɪbɪˌbaɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-kibibyte.wav [Southern-England] Forms: kibibytes [plural]
Etymology: kibi- + byte Etymology templates: {{pre|en|kibi|byte}} kibi- + byte Head templates: {{en-noun}} kibibyte (plural kibibytes)
  1. (computing) Strictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte. Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: KiB Coordinate_terms (Next): mebibyte Coordinate_terms (Previous): byte Translations (1,024 bytes): kibibitoko (Esperanto), kibitavu (Finnish), kibioctet (French), კიბიბაიტი (ḳibibaiṭi) (Georgian), Kibibyte [masculine] (German), キビバイト (kibibaito) (Japanese), кибиба́йт (kibibájt) [masculine] (Russian)

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