See Also: Ben Taub General Hospital(health)
Baton Rouge General Medical Center and General Health Center(health)
Mercy General Health Partners(health)
Maine General Health Center(health)
Lancaster General Health Campus(health)
Southwest General Health Center(health)
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Ben Taub General Hospital (health) and kilo- (iou)


Ben Taub General Hospital (health)


The Ben Taub General Hospital is a hospital in Houston, Texas, United States.









kilo- (iou)



kilo- combining form.
[French, from Greek khilioi thousand: see -O-.]
Used in names of units of measurement to denote a factor of one thousand, as kilojoule, kilolitre, kilopascal, etc., or (in Computing) a factor of 1,024 (210), as kilobyte etc. Abbreviation k.
kilobase noun (Biochemistry) a unit of size of nucleic acid chains, equal to one thousand base-pairs (also
kilobase-pair) L20.
kilobit noun (Computing) a unit of memory size equal to 1,024 bits M20.
kilobuck noun (slang) a thousand dollars M20.
kilocalorie noun = CALORIE (a) L19.
kilocycle noun (a) a thousand cycles (of some periodic phenomenon); (b) = kilohertz: E20.
kilohertz noun a thousand hertz or cycles per second E20.
kilovolt noun a thousand volts L19.
kilovoltage noun voltage expressed in kilovolts M20.
kilowatt noun a thousand watts (
kilowatt-hour, a unit of energy equal to that produced in one hour by a power of one kilowatt (= 3.6 million joule)) L19.
kilowattage noun power expressed in kilowatts M20.