Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

kb/s

English translation:

kb/s

Added to glossary by David Russi
Jun 24, 2007 17:13
16 yrs ago
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Italian term

Kb/s

Italian to English Tech/Engineering IT (Information Technology)
(Kilobit per secondo). So che si dice mcr. (O solo in Canada?). Per cosa sta mcr? E come si dice invece KB/s, cioè kilobyte per secondo?
Proposed translations (English)
5 +4 Kb/s
3 mcr = minimum cell rate
Change log

Jun 27, 2007 16:33: David Russi Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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Kb/s

Si dice iguale... mai sentito "mcr." per Kb/s, mi pare che sie una nomenclatura internazionale
Peer comment(s):

agree James (Jim) Davis : Never heard of mcr
19 mins
agree Giovanni Pizzati (X)
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agree Lapo Luchini : sia Kb/s che KB/s sono uguali... nota: in telecomunicazioni "K" sta per 1000 (come da SI) e non 1024 come spesso nell'informatica (anche se ora, ufficialmente, 1024 sarebbe Ki, kibibyte).
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agree Fabio Moriggi : Kb e KB non sono uguali... il primo indica kilobit, il secondo KiloByte ;) Kilobit per secondo = kbps; KiloByte per secondo = KB/s
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mcr = minimum cell rate

This was more than one question. The answer to "Per cosa sta mcr?" is probably minimum cell rate: see the ref.
kb/s is kilobits per second
kB/s is kilobytes per second
These are sometimes confused as many people don't know when to use upper case and when lower case in unit symbols. Lower-case b for bit, upper-case B for byte because a Byte is bigger than a Bit. Lower-case k for kilo because there isn't a smaller multiple that also begins with "k" (in contrast to "m" for milli- and "M" for mega-).
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