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chiliogramme

chiliogramme is the obsolete spelling of kilogram.

Meaning of kilogram

Noun

kilogram (plural kilograms)

  1. In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10⁻³⁴ when expressed in units of kg⋅m²⋅s⁻¹. Symbol: kg
    • Holonyms: megagram < gigagram
  2. (proscribed) The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.
    • A nan (bread) costs 25 Afghanis : a kilogram of beef 800 Afghanis and mutton of the same weight for 1200 Afghanis; […]1990, Central Asia, numbers 26-27, page 137

Forms of chiliogramme

pluralchiliogrammes

Questions about chiliogramme

What is chiliogramme the obsolete spelling of?
Chiliogramme is the obsolete spelling of kilogram.

Words near chiliogramme in the dictionary

  1. Chilingaryans
  2. chilinid
  3. chilinids
  4. chiliocosm
  5. chiliocosms
  6. chiliogramme
  7. chiliogrammes
  8. chiliometre
  9. chiliometres
  10. chilip
  11. chilips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chiliogramme (page history and authors); kilogram (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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