kilobase
/ˈkɪl.ə.beɪs/noun
kilobase is a noun meaning “A length of double-stranded DNA containing two thousand nucleotides, one thousand on each strand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-I-L-O-B-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kilobase is kilobases.
What does kilobase mean?
noun
- 1
A length of double-stranded DNA containing two thousand nucleotides, one thousand on each strand.
- 2
A length of single-stranded RNA containing one thousand nucleotides.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kilobase?
- /ˈkɪl.ə.beɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kilobase
- kilobases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kilobase?
Kilobase appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate kilobase?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of kilobase: kb.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does kilobase come from?
From kilo- + base.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).