IEC

Short for International Electrotechnical Commission, the IEC is an organization that was founded in 1906 in London, England. The IEC prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic, and related technologies.

• The official IEC web page can be found at http://www.iec.ch/

Kilobit

1. A value of measurement, a kilobit, kbit, or Kb is equal to 1,000 bits. For example, a 56k modem is capable of transmitting 56,000 bits per second.

Tip: When the b is uppercase (KB), this refers to a kilobyte. see the kilobyte page for definition of a kilobyte.

• How much is 1 byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc.?

2. A kb may also be short for keyboard.

Lowercase

Sometimes abbreviated as LC, lowercase is a typeface of small characters. For example, a, b, and c is lowercase and A, B, and C is uppercase.

Using the lc command

Many programming and scripting languages use the lc command to convert a variable into lowercase. For example, in the example below is how the lc command can be used in Perl.

my $example = "HELLO WORLD";
$example = lc($example);

In the above example the $example variable is first set as all lowercase. The second line makes the text all lower case.