Definitions for Kilometer
kilo·me·ter

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. kilometer, kilometre, km, klicknoun

   a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)

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1. kilometer

   The kilometre (SI symbol: km; or ), spelt kilometer in American English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for 1000). It is now the measurement unit used for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the main unit used. The abbreviations k or K (pronounced ) are commonly used to represent kilometre, but are not recommended by the BIPM. A slang term for the kilometre in the US, UK, and Canadian militaries is klick.

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1. kilometer

   A kilometer is a unit of length or distance in the metric system, equivalent to one thousand meters. It is commonly used in countries that have adopted the metric system for measuring distances between places.

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1. Kilometernoun

   alt. of Kilometre

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1. Kilometer

   The kilometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres. It is now the measurement unit used officially for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the official unit used. k is occasionally used in some English-speaking countries as an alternative for the word kilometre in everyday writing and speech. A slang term for the kilometre in the U.S. military is klick.

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1. Kilometer

   A compound unit; one thousand meters; 3280.899 feet; 0.621382 statute miles. (See Meter.)

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1. • Metric Linear Unit

Anagrams for Kilometer »

1. kilometre

How to pronounce Kilometer?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Kilometer in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Kilometer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Kilometer in a Sentence

1. Ian Tomaszewski:

   There's a lot of opportunities for the structure, tourism is one. You'd have a great sight of the earth at 20 kilometers up, you'd see about 1,000 kilometers in any direction. Communications. So right now geostationary satellites, once they're up there you can't really service them. If we had facilities on the tower it would have that same 1,000 kilometer range and you'd be able to service them.

2. Sigurdur Skarphedinsson:

   We've only removed 5,500 cubic meters of ice from a 900-square-kilometer glacier, it's a bit like taking a drop of water from a bathtub.

3. Scott Davies:

   To verify that our urban sites were indeed urban, and our rural sites were rural, we used satellite images to measure the proportion of buildings, roads, and vegetation in the kilometer surrounding each site.

4. Veenu Gupta:

   We have to do a very intensive survey within a 3 kilometer radius of where the first case was recorded.

5. Glenn Phillips:

   It's a 1,400-kilometer boundary which we manage all the time with 700 rangers -- rangers that now must mainly focus on anti-poaching operations.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Kilometer
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilometer
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Kilometer
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Kilometer
6. ^ The Standard Electrical Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26535/pg26535-images.html#:~:text=Kilometer