kbit

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A form of kilobit — One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bits.

Less commonScrabble 10

Meanings

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  1. abbreviationformalcomputingAbbreviation of kilobit.

    We demonstrate that the proposed codec operating at 48 kbit/s and 64 kbit/s out-performs both G.722.1C and MP3 and has quality comparable to AAC-LD, despite having less than one fourth of the algorithmic delay of these codecs..

    2016, Jean-Marc Valin, Timothy B. Terriberry, Christopher Montgomery, Gregory Maxwell, “A High-Quality Speech and Audio Codec With Less Than 10 ms Delay”, in IEEE Transactions on Audio, volumes Speech and Language Processing

    Synonyms: kb

  2. abbreviationinformalcomputingAbbreviation of kibibit.

    Synonyms: Kibit

Synonyms & antonyms

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nouna unit of information equal to 1000 bits

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computer memory unit
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