Definition of Kilometre

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kilometre (Brit.)
n. (Km) unit of distance equalling one thousand meters (also kilometer)

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Kilometre Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Kilometre
(n.)
A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or 62137 of a mile.
  

WordNet 2.0
kilometre

Noun
1. a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
(synonym) kilometer, km, klick
(hypernym) metric linear unit
(part-holonym) myriameter, myriametre, mym
(part-meronym) hectometer, hectometre, hm

hEnglish - advanced version
kilometre

kilometre
kinaesthesia n
1. the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc [syn: kinesthesia, feeling of movement]


2. the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body [syn: kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinesthetics, muscle sense , sense of movement]
[ant: kinanesthesia]



Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
kilometre
ciliméadar m.


Kilometre Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Kilometre
A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer, symbol km) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres, the current SI base unit of length. It can be written in scientific notations as 1×10³ m (engineering notation) or (exponential notation) — both meaning .

nanometre <<<  micrometre <<<  millimetre <  centimetre <  decimetre <  metre <  decametre <  hectometre <  kilometre <<<  megametre

A corresponding unit of area is the square kilometre and a corresponding unit of volume is the cubic kilometre.


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