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KB - Kilobyte
KB: Unit of measurement for pieces of information : actually 1024 Bytes (characters), but in practice almost always rounded down to 1000. Often written as just K, eg 250 K is 250 Kilobytes (250,000 bytes/characters. See also Megabyte, Gigabyte.

KPS - KiloBits Per Second
KPS: A measure of speed of information flow, usually over a modem. A Kilobit is a thousand bits. See also bps, Mbps.