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Kb

Definition: Kb

Kb

Noun

1. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Kb

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Kb kilobyte. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Medicine

A measure of the length of DNA fragments, 1 Kb = 1000 base pairs. The largest DNA fragments are up to 50 kilobases long. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Kb

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

kb

DanishKilobaseparMedicine

KB

EnglishKleinwort and BensonFinance

KB

GermanKünstliche BefruchtungMedicine

kb

ItalianKilobasiMedicine

kb

SwedishKbMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Kb

Synonyms: K (n), Kilobyte (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Kb

Specialty definitions using "kb": 3StationCommodore 1541, Commodore 1581, Commodore 64KB Cells, kilobase, kilobitMoscow ML, MPC Level 1 Specification, MPC Level 2 SpecificationPentium IIIrandom amplified polymorphic DNATurbo CVIC-20. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Kb" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (kbytes, kilobyte, kilobytes).

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Commercial Usage: Kb

DomainTitle

References

  • KB Home: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • A Mouse on the Moon (Predictable Word Book, Kb Intermediate) (reference)

  • Balloons (Predictable Word Book, Kb Intermediate) (reference)

  • Cust WCW/NWO with Poster Kb (reference)

  • Feelings (Predictable Word Book, Kb Intermediate) (reference)

  • Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for KB Home - KBH [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Kb

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The rabies virus genome is single-stranded, antisense, nonsegmented, RNA of approximately 12 kb. There is a leader (LDR) of 50 nucleotides, followed by N, P, M, G, and L genes. (references)

Business

The cheapest service, suitable for household with one computer and modem, that contains connection for unlimited time, e-mail and 200 kB disk memory vary from 25 to 50 USD per month. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

Bangladesh now has 12 Internet service providers offering full Internet access via 64 KB VSAT connections. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Kb

"Kb" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Kb" is used about 334 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (common)100%33415,701

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Kb

CountryName
USA

KB Home

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Kb

Expression using "kb": KB Cells. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "kb": NF-KB.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Kb

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

kb home

2,100

in kb many mb

16

kb toy

1,871

kb toy outlet

14

kb

334

california home kb

13

kb toy store

115

kb toy com

13

kb gear

102

kb home arizona

13

kb to mb

95

kb kid

13

kb toys.com

56

antibody kb nf

12

kb gear interactive

53

international kb

12

kb electronics

48

home kb texas

12

kb toy works

35

builder kb

12

homes.com kb

35

9801r kb

12

kb toy coupon

33

tucson kb home

12

home kb las vegas

31

kb home builder

11

kb home san antonio

27

kb home.com

11

kb home houston

26

kb gear jamcam

11

kb piston

23

aircert cert.org kb

10

kb book

22

austin home kb

10

kb kids.com

20

cert.org kb

10

conversion kb mb

19

kb store

10

convert kb mb

19

download free gear kb software

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Kb

Language Translations for "kb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

千靶. (various references)

   

Danish

  

kilobase (kilobase, kilobase pair). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Kilobase (kilobase, kilobase pair), Kb (Kilobase). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kilobase (Kilobase). (various references)

   

French

  

Kilobase, Kb. (various references)

   

German

  

Kilobase (Kilobase, kilobase pair). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

kb (Kilobase), κιλοβάση (Kilobase). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Kilobase (Kilobase), chilobase (Kilobase). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

キログラ 重 (kilobyte, kilogram-weight, kilometer, kilometre, kilowatt). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

キロバイト (kilobyte). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

킬로 "이트. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

kbay

   

Portuguese

  

kilobase (Kilobase), Kb (Kilobase). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

kilobase (kilobase, kilobase pair), kb (Kilobase, kilobase pair). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kilobas (Kilobase), kb (Kilobase, Kylobyte). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Kb

Derivations

Words beginning with "kb": kbar, kbars. (additional references)

Words containing "kb": antikickback, backbeat, backbeats, backbench, backbencher, backbenchers, backbenches, backbend, backbends, backbit, backbite, backbiter, backbiters, backbites, backbiting, backbitings, backbitten, backblock, backblocks, backboard, backboards, backbone, backbones, backbreaker, backbreakers, backbreaking, bankbook, bankbooks, blackball, blackballed, blackballing, blackballs, blackberries, blackberry, blackbird, blackbirded, blackbirder, blackbirders, blackbirding, blackbirds, blackboard, blackboards, blackbodies, blackbody, blackboy, blackboys, blockbuster, blockbusters, blockbusting, blockbustings, bookbinder. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Kb

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-k"
 

+1 letter: kab, kob.

 

+2 letters: back, bake, balk, bank, bark, bask, beak, beck, bike, bilk, birk, bisk, bock, bonk, book, bosk, buck, bulk, bunk, busk, kabs, kbar, kerb, kibe, knob, kobo, kobs.

 

+3 letters: aback, abaka, babka, backs, baked, baker, bakes, balks, balky, banks, barks, barky, basks, batik, baulk, beaks, beaky, becks, biked, biker, bikes, bikie, bilks, birks, bisks, black, blank, bleak, blink, block, bloke, bocks, bonks, books, bosks, bosky, brake, braky, brank, break, brick, brink, brisk, brock, broke, brook, brusk, bucko, bucks, bulks, bulky, bunko, bunks, burke, busks, kabab, kabar, kabob, kbars, kebab, kebar, kebob, kerbs, kibbe, kibbi, kibei, kibes, kibla, knobs, kobos, krubi.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: Kb


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 62

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-    -...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01100010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#98

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0062

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4568

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese;
Deens, danisht, danishte, ‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish;
Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
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Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, ‏فرنسي, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French;
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korean, ‏كوري شمالي, ‏اللغة الكورية, ‏كوري جنوبي, ‏كوري, Coreanu, корейски, корейски език, Koryano, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejský, korejec, korejština, Koreaans, koreanskt, coréen, Koreaansk, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτησ, κορεάτικοσ, koreai, 한국, koreano, coréia, a língua coreana, coreean, limba coreeanã, кореец, корейский, Kolea, korejski jezik, korejski, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, ชาวเกาหลี, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên, for korean;
Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese;
Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish;
Sweeds, suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish;