Glossary for Geospatial Science

kilobyte:� A unit of measure equal to 1024 bytes (2 to the 10th power), but loosely used for 1,000 bytes.� So also with its multiples: megabyte (loosely 1,000,000 bytes), gigabyte (loosely 1,000,000,000 bytes) and terabyte (1,000,000,000,000 bytes).� (See also: bit, byte, exabyte, gigabyte, megabyte, petabyte, terabyte, yottabyte, zettabyte.)