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kilo-meter

kilo-meter is the obsolete form of kilometre.

Meaning of kilometre

Noun

kilometre (plural kilometres)

  1. An SI unit of length equal to 10³ metres. Symbol: km
    • Holonyms: megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre
    Synonyms:
    km, klick, klom

Forms of kilo-meter

pluralkilo-meters

Questions about kilo-meter

What is kilo-meter the obsolete form of?
Kilo-meter is the obsolete form of kilometre.

Words near kilo-meter in the dictionary

  1. kilo-
  2. kilo-amp
  3. kilo-amps
  4. kilo-joule
  5. Kilo-kilo
  6. kilo-meter
  7. kilo-meters
  8. kilo-newton
  9. kilo-ohm
  10. kilo-ohms
  11. kilo-volt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kilo-meter (page history and authors); kilometre (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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