How to Use kilobyte in a Sentence

kilobyte

noun
Definition of kilobytenext
  • The program weighed in at two kilobytes, four times the size of Mark Lesser’s 511-byte handheld games, and was much more complex.
    — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
  • A hit single might take up several kilobytes of storage space, which was a lot in 1988.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2017
  • The first 8-inch floppies could hold up to 80 kilobytes of information.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Oct. 2019
  • File sizes in the hundreds or thousands of kilobytes usually work.
    — David Staats, idahostatesman, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Images can be compressed into a few kilobytes versus a video that plays at 25 frames per second.
    — Bryan Borzykowski, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The web app for Starbucks, for example, takes up just 429 kilobytes of storage on my phone — or less than 1 percent of the storage taken by the standard Starbucks Android app.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
  • That work represented about one kilobyte's worth of data.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2020
  • FTI Consulting found that six months before the video download, Bezos's phone averaged about 430 kilobytes of data coming from the phone per day, a small amount.
    — Louise Matsakis, Wired, 22 Jan. 2020
  • One county in Florida relies on a slow, outdated, and hard-to-find analog modem that transmit voting results at a snail’s pace of a few kilobytes per second.
    — Kim Zetter, WIRED, 15 Sep. 2015
  • Facebook's popular open source React library for building user interfaces, for example, weighs in at 100 kilobytes.
    — Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Facebook and Google aren’t the only companies hoovering up every kilobyte of our digital lives—our late-night shopping habits, social-media posts, travel plans, and celebrity obsessions—and turning that personal data into dollar signs.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 20 June 2017
  • Embedding Macintosh software in 64 kilobytes of read-only memory increased the reliability of the computer and simplified the hardware [A].
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023

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