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K

The symbol for kilo in computer storage, which is 1024. Note that the lowercase K stands for 1000 as in kilogram and kilometer. . etc.

keyboard
clavier m

Touchpad. A device for encoding characters on punched cards or punched tape or directly into the computer. In addition to the regular typewriter style (QWERTY), there are numeric keys, user-defined keys, hexadecimal keys, and others.

Example: microwriter keys.

key-to-disk unit
unité f clavier au disk

Key-to-disk unit An independent device that allows data to be transferred from the keyboard directly to the disk.

keyword
mot - key m

Keyword. This word is often used in information retrieval systems where items containing the keyword are retrieved and selected. In some simpler systems, a specific keyword can only be searched in the stored item titles, although each word can be checked in the database of some mainframe computers.

kilo - (K)
kilo -

The prefix kilo means "alpha" in general, as in data transmission rates, for example. For example, 96 kilobaud means 96,000 bits per second. However, in computer storage, 1K means 1024 (2 to 10). Thus, 16k of memory means 16,384 bytes.

kimball tag
étiquette f de kimball

Kimball card. A small card with holes that is usually attached to merchandise in a store and removed when the merchandise is sold.
The holes encode the item's unique number. These cards are used as punched card input for the computer, which keeps a record of sales and provides management reports. Some stores have additional cards for sales, returned items, and exchanges. The data is sometimes encoded on a magnetic strip attached to the card instead of punched.