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Kilometre

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Kil′o-meˊter

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Kil′o-meˊtre

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Noun.

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A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.84 feet, or 0.62137119 of a mile.

Definition 2024

kilometre

kilometre

See also: kilòmetre, kilomètre, and kilo-metre

English

Alternative forms

chilometer, chilometre (obsolete)
(US) kilometer

Noun

kilometre ‎(plural kilometres)

(British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Irish and South African spelling) (metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 10³ metres.

Synonyms

klick (military slang, used when referring to distance)
km (official SI symbol)
Km (chiefly American, in non-scientific usage, such as in road signs)

Derived terms

square kilometre

Translations

unit of measure

Arabic: كِيلُومِتْر m ‎(kilomitr)
Egyptian Arabic: كيلومتر m ‎(kilometr)
Armenian: կիլոմետր (hy) ‎(kilometr)
Asturian: quilómetru m, kilómetru m
Azeri: kilometr (az)
Bashkir: саҡрым ‎(saqrïm)
Belarusian: кіламетр m ‎(kilamétr)
Bulgarian: километър (bg) m ‎(kilométǎr)
Catalan: quilòmetre m, kilòmetre m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 公里 ‎(gung¹ lei⁵), 千米 ‎(cin¹ mai⁵)

Hakka: 公里 ‎(kûng-lî), 奇勞, 奇劳 ‎(khi-ló)

Mandarin: 公里 (zh) ‎(gōnglǐ), 千米 (zh) ‎(qiān-mǐ)

Min Nan: 公里 (zh-min-nan) ‎(kong-lí), khí-lo͘h
Czech: kilometr (cs) m
Danish: kilometer (da) c
Dutch: kilometer (nl)
Esperanto: kilometro
Finnish: kilometri (fi), colloquial kilsa (fi)
French: kilomètre (fr) m
Galician: quilómetro (gl) m
Georgian: კილომეტრი ‎(ḳilomeṭri)
German: Kilometer (de) m
Greek: χιλιόμετρο (el) n ‎(chiliómetro)
Haitian Creole: kilomèt
Hebrew: קילומטר m ‎(kilometer)
Hindi: किलोमीटर (hi) ‎(kilōmīṭar), सहस्रमान ‎(sahasramān)
Hungarian: kilométer (hu)
Ido: kilometro (io)
Indonesian: kilometer (id)
Interlingua: kilometro
Irish: ciliméadar m
Italian: chilometro (it) m

Japanese: キロメートル (ja) ‎(kiromētoru)
Kazakh: шақырым ‎(şaqırım)
Khmer: គីឡូម៉ែត្រ (km) ‎(kiiloo maet)
Korean: 킬롬미터 ‎(kilomiteo)
Lao: ກິໂລແມັດ (lo) ‎(ki lō mæt)
Latin: chiliometrum (la) n
Lü: ᦜᧅ ‎(l̇ak)
Macedonian: километар m ‎(kilométar)
Malay: kilometer
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kilometer (no) m

Nynorsk: kilometer (no) m
Persian: کیلومتر (fa) ‎(kilometr)
Polish: kilometr (pl) m
Portuguese: quilômetro (pt) m, quilómetro (pt) m
Romanian: kilometru (ro) m
Russian: киломе́тр (ru) m ‎(kilométr)
Scottish Gaelic: cilemeatair m
Serbo-Croatian: километар m, kilometar (sh) m
Slovak: kilometer
Slovene: kilometer (sl)
Spanish: kilómetro (es) m, quilómetro (es) m
Swahili: kilometa
Swedish: kilometer (sv) c
Tagalog: libopanukat, kilometro
Telugu: కిలోమీటరు ‎(kilōmīṭaru)
Thai: กิโลเมตร (th) ‎(kilometr)
Tibetan: སྤྱི་ལེ། ‎(spyi le)
Tongan: kilomita
Turkish: kilometre (tr), çakrım
Ukrainian: кілометр (uk) m ‎(kilométr)
Vietnamese: cây số (vi), kilômet
Yiddish: קילאָמעטער m ‎(kilometer)

Anagrams

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