Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a kilometer; measured in kilometers.
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- adjective Measured in
kilometres /kilometers
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Examples
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The radio emissions, called Saturn kilometric radiation, are generated along with Saturn's auroras, or northern and southern lights.
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Nothing would satisfy him but going with me, on my hinted purpose, and inquiring with me at the railroad office into the whole business of circular tickets, and even those kilometric tickets which the Spanish railroads issue to such passengers as will have their photographs affixed to them for the prevention of transference.
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He could see the deep bands of equatorial emissions and had to tone down the decametric and kilometric radio roar coming from the flux tube itself.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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-- Excellent maps in three colours, main routes in red, with kilometric distances, towns, and picturesque sites clearly marked.
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The most handy and useful hotel and mécanicien list, with kilometric distances between French towns and cities.
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Contains notes as to nature of roads, kilometric distances, etc. L'Annuaire de Route.
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Nothing would satisfy him but going with me, on my hinted purpose, and inquiring with me at the railroad office into the whole business of circular tickets, and even those kilometric tickets which the Spanish railroads issue to such passengers as will have their photographs affixed to them for the prevention of transference.
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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Individual pegmatites can attain up to 60 m in width and more than 100 m in length, collectively forming part of a much larger body kilometric in length and up to 300 m wide.
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The MAPS instruments also performed observations as part of the solar wind aurora campaign to study the auroral magnetosphere and the Saturn kilometric radiation source regions.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
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The MAPS instruments also performed observations as part of the solar wind aurora campaign to study the auroral magnetosphere and the Saturn kilometric radiation source regions.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
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