Resource Center: How to Speak A/V
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Entries starting with: Kapton: A plastic material widely used in the manufacture of speaker voice-coil formers. kelvin (K): A unit on the Kelvin temperature scale, which is the same “size” as a degree on the centigrade/Celsius scale but starts from “absolute zero” (0 K = –273°C = –459.7°F) rather than the freezing point of water. kilo (k): The metric prefix for thousand. kilobits per second (kbps): A statement of bit rate or data-transfer speed, usually encountered in reference to downloaded music files in MP3 and other compressed-audio formats, where 128 kbps is often cited as the “standard” for acceptable sound quality, though the quality at that rate can actually vary considerably depending on which codec was used. See codec and MP3, AAC, RealAudio, and Windows Media Audio. kilobyte (kB): 1,024 (210) bytes; a measure of digital information-storage capacity. Abbreviations |
