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• kilocycle

1,000 cycles per second, called a kilohertz (kHz or khz). The number of kilocycles determines a station's frequency.

• kbps: kilobits per second

A measure of data transmission speed.

• Ku-band

The band of radio frequencies between 11 and 18 GHz.