A kilobyte (derived from the Standards Insitute prefix kilo-, meaning 1000) is a unit of information or computer storage defined by the Standards Institute as 1000 bytes. Abbreviations for kilobyte include KB, kB, Kbyte, and kbyte. Note that “kilobyte” is also used to represent 1024 (2^10) bytes, though the preferred term for this is a kibibyte (KiB).
