Memory Management Glossary: K

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kB

See

kilobyte.

kilobyte

Also known as

kB.

A kilobyte is 1024 bytes (1).

See byte (1) for general information on this and related quantities.

The standard abbreviation is “kB”, but “KB” is often used by people unfamiliar with the metric system.