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Kilobyte

About 1000 bytes. It is actually 1024 bytes or 2 to the 10th power (2^10) or 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2.

kilo usually means 1000 in the decimal system.

It is abreviated to Kb or kb

compare with

megabyte
gigabyte
terabyte

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