Definitions
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- noun UK, Canada (metrology) An
SI unit of length equal to 103metres .
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 discovered that I was unable to get further than about a kilometre from the plateau before the compulsion to return became undeniable.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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I discovered that I was unable to get further than about a kilometre from the plateau before the compulsion to return became undeniable.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Also, the hybrid price per kilometre is over four times better that of the petrol engine (to say nothing of the presumed range) and a third better than the electric, but even still given a cost of 200 yen per litre, I make it that one would need to drive over 100,000 kilometres to pay back the price.
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In the United Kingdom, apparently, you need a license to protest within a kilometre from the Mother of all Parliaments.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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It reminds the ancient scribe of that long-ago spat between Gough Whitlam and Clyde Cameron about how the word kilometre should rightly be pronounced.
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Paul Chandler told ITV News he and his wife were being held aboard a container ship anchored about a kilometre from the Somali coast.
IrishExaminer.com 2009
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The policeman was at a Georgian checkpoint near the central city of Gori about a kilometre from the Russian post, Interior Ministry official Shota Utiashvili said.
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The people there have to use satellite to make a call a kilometre away and the limited DSL is very expensive - we will try to push the envelope a little and experiment with voice and data.
Computerworld News 2010
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The people there have to use satellite to make a call a kilometre away and the limited DSL is very expensive - we will try to push the envelope a little and experiment with voice and data.
Computerworld News 2010
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The people there have to use satellite to make a call a kilometre away and the limited DSL is very expensive - we will try to push the envelope a little and experiment with voice and data.
Computerworld News 2010
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