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Kilobyte - A semi-ambiguous multiple of the unit byte. Depending upon the context, a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes (IEEE and ISO digital standards) or 1,024 bytes (memory circuits with a binary architecture). As the variance is small, and as the international electronic standards community has shown no discipline for sorting out the binary v. digital distinction, the term "kilobyte" is ambiguously employed in dissimilar contexts as if it refers to the same quantity. See Byte, IEEE, ISO, Megabyte

Knowledge Base - A database purpose built for knowledge management. The two types of knowledge bases are machine readable and human readable. See Database, Expert System, Inference Engine


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	Health Informatics Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Kilobyte - A semi-ambiguous multiple of the unit byte. Depending upon the context, a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes (IEEE and ISO digital standards) or 1,024 bytes (memory circuits with a binary architecture). As the variance is small, and as the international electronic standards community has shown no discipline for sorting out the binary v. digital distinction, the term "kilobyte" is ambiguously employed in dissimilar contexts as if it refers to the same quantity. See Byte, IEEE, ISO, Megabyte Knowledge Base - A database purpose built for knowledge management. The two types of knowledge bases are machine readable and human readable. See Database, Expert System, Inference Engine

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