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Kb
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Kb
abbr.
kilobit

KB
abbr.
1. kilobyte
2. King's Bench
3. king's bishop (chess)

kb
abbr.
kilobar

kb
abbreviation for
(Mathematics & Measurements / Units) kilobar

KB
abbreviation for
1. (Law) (in Britain) King's Bench
2. (in Britain) Knight Bachelor
3. (Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing kilobyte
4. (Group Games / Chess & Draughts) Chess
symbol for king's bishop

Kb
Abbreviation of kilobit

KB
Abbreviation of kilobyte
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.kb - a unit of information equal to 1000 bits
computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory
Mb, Mbit, megabit - a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,000) bits
2.kB - a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes
computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory
megabyte, MB, M - a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes
3.kB - a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes
computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory
word - a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; "large computers use words up to 64 bits long"
mebibyte, MiB, megabyte, MB, M - a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
Translations
KB ABBR =kilobyteK m


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This is currently the most economical and versatile high throughput method of determining telomere length, although the values are not an actual kilobase pair length as compared to the data provided by Southern blots.
15) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The GeneChip Mapping 10K array proved highly sensitive and specific, allowing for detection of aberrations as small as 700 kilobases," said Dr Peter Nuernberg, Director of the Gene Mapping Center at the MaxDelbruck Center in Berlin and senior author on the publication.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is 16 kilobases, circular, and encodes 13 protein, 22 tRNA and two rRNA genes.
 
 
 
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