Kb Definition & Meaning

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  • kb 1 American
    1. kilobar; kilobars.

    Kb 2 American Computers.
    1. kilobit; kilobits.

    KB 3 American
    1. Chess. king's bishop.

    2. Computers. kilobyte; kilobytes.

    K.B. 4 American

    abbreviation

    1. King's Bench.

    2. Knight Bachelor.

    KB 1 British

    abbreviation

    1. (in Britain) King's Bench

    2. (in Britain) Knight Bachelor

    3. computing kilobyte

    "Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

    symbol

    1. chess king's bishop

    "Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Kb 2 British

    abbreviation

    1. computing kilobit

    "Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 kb 3 British

    abbreviation

    1. kilobar

    "Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Kb 1 Scientific
    1. Abbreviation of kilobit

    KB 2 Scientific
    1. Abbreviation of kilobyte

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    Luo et al. produced an n = 2 strain containing chromosomes that were each about 6,000 kb long.

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    Subsequently, adjacent bins with the same genotype within a physical distance of 100 kb were merged into larger bins to remove bins with spurious or missing genotypes.

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    A locus was considered to be multi-gene if it contained at least three genes of a specific RGA class with a maximum distance between genes of 300 kb.

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    Features were calculated among rare SNVs within 10 kb of the gene.

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    For one sample, a 5 kb library was discarded as it was error prone and could not be processed by the Allpaths-LG PrepareAllPathsInputs.pl script.

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