Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A length of 1,000 meters, or of a statute mile less 19 feet 2 inches. Abbreviated km.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.84 feet, or 0.62137119 of a mile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US spelling of
kilometre .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
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Examples
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I picked this from Wikipedia, but what it doesn't tell is what they call kilometer in Australia.
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Crappy Weather BikeSnobNYC 2009
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The Deep Space Explorer held its position one kilometer from the anomaly.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The highest innovation density, measured in patents per square kilometer, is in San Jose, Calif. (the capital of Silicon Valley) followed by nearby San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Warning: A Foul Outlook for Holiday Airfares Nikki Waller 2010
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From the top you see the village of Atécuaro to south and the Cointzio Reservoir to the west, below a little south of east at little less than one kilometer is the site of the old ranch, La Joya, there are no buildings left, but just a few years ago a bougainvillea and a yucca clearly showed it was the site of an old ranch.
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From the top you see the village of Atécuaro to south and the Cointzio Reservoir to the west, below a little south of east at little less than one kilometer is the site of the old ranch, La Joya, there are no buildings left, but just a few years ago a bougainvillea and a yucca clearly showed it was the site of an old ranch.
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However, rating bicycle versus automobile fatalities by kilometer is a little deceiving, because bicycle trips are typically shorter.
Will Bicycling to Work Get You Killed? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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The villages of San Juan and San Salvador Paricutín, the last just one kilometer from the rising volcano, were in danger, but nobody wanted to abandon land and home.
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The villages of San Juan and San Salvador Paricutín, the last just one kilometer from the rising volcano, were in danger, but nobody wanted to abandon land and home.
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The villages of San Juan and San Salvador Paricutín, the last just one kilometer from the rising volcano, were in danger, but nobody wanted to abandon land and home.
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The villages of San Juan and San Salvador Paricutín, the last just one kilometer from the rising volcano, were in danger, but nobody wanted to abandon land and home.
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