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

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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

Example Sentences

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

From Nature

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.

From Nature

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.

From Nature

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

From Nature

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.

From Nature

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