Lexic.us

Definition of Kilometer

1. Noun. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).

Definition of Kilometer

1. n. A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or .62137 of a mile.

Definition of Kilometer

1. Noun. (spelling of (US sub=labelcat) kilometre) ¹

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Definition of Kilometer

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kilometer

Literary usage of Kilometer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands by New York Academy of Sciences (1922)
"(7) kilometer 22.7, Ponce-Ad juntas road. (8) kilometer 1.1, Jayuya road. ... (18) One mile north of kilometer 114.0, Ponce-Juana Diaz-San Juan road. ..."

2. Land Magnetic Observations: 1905/10- by Louis Agricola Bauer, John Adam Fleming, Harlan Wilbur Fisk, Samuel Jackson Barnett, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1912)
"Station A is about 500 feet (152 meters) north-northwest of road leading from town to steamboat wharves; about one-fourth mile (0.4 kilometer) ..."

3. The American Engineers in France by William Barclay Parsons (1920)
"Method of Lettering Fifty kilometer Squares. Fio. 2.—INTER-ALLIED SYSTEM. Ten kilometer Square Enlarged—Method of Numbering kilometer Squares. ..."

4. The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1870)
"I am very glad it is our privilege to have donkeys instead of cars. kilometer. At the distance of a few miles the Pyramids rising above the palms, ..."

5. Personal Cars and China =: Si Ren Jiao Che Yu Zhongguo by National Research Council (U.S.), Zhongguo gong cheng yuan (2003)
"... diesel, or CNG hybrids 0.4 Cost (dollars per kilometer) 0.5 FIGURE 4-14 Estimated energy versus cost ranges for selected technologies per kilometer. ..."

6. Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works by Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1893)
"THE kilometer AT ELEPHANTINE. (XVII. 1. 48.) As the life of the inhabitants of Egypt has depended from first to last on the inundations of the Nile, ..."

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