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KILOMETER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
Synonyms:
kilometer; kilometre; klick; km
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("kilometer" is a kind of...):
metric linear unit (a linear unit of distance in metric terms)
Meronyms (parts of "kilometer"):
hectometer; hectometre; hm (a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters)
Holonyms ("kilometer" is a part of...):
mym; myriameter; myriametre (a metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters)
Context examples:
According to a paper on Zealandia published in the Geological Society of America, researchers say the continent is about two-thirds the size of Australia, measuring some five million square kilometers.
(Researchers Argue for Eighth Continent: Zealandia, VOA)
One hundred hectares is equal to one square kilometer.
(Hectare, NCI Thesaurus)
It has a broken surface of irregularly-shaped segments, roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) across, bordered by what appear to be shallow troughs.
(New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)
The research examined satellite data from the past 30 years to track land cover changes in the Chobe district, a 21,000-square-kilometer area that encompasses urban, rural, communally-managed and protected lands.
(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)
The charge is likely generated by the winds on Titan, which blow at around 30 kilometers per hour.
('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)
Located 226 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, the planet lies in a stellar system known as K2-288, which contains a pair of dim, cool M-type stars separated by about 5.1 billion miles (8.2 billion kilometers) - roughly six times the distance between Saturn and the Sun.
(Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope, NASA)
For this reason, and also on account of the speed of its rotation—Haumea rotates around its axis in 3.9 hours—way quicker than any other body in the Solar System with more than a hundred kilometers wide, the dwarf planet is flattened out and has a shape similar to that of a rugby ball.
(Brazil astronomers discover ring around dwarf planet near Pluto, Agência Brasil)
Cutting diagonally across the mottled plans is the long extensional fault of Inanna Fossa, which stretches eastward 370 miles (600 kilometers) from here to the western edge of the great nitrogen ice plains of Sputnik Planum.
(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)
Image scale is 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers) per pixel.
(Regarding Rhea, NASA)
The comet is currently 260 million miles (420 million kilometers) from the Sun and will reach its closest point, or perihelion, on Dec. 8, 2019, at a distance of about 190 million miles (300 million kilometers).
(Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor, NASA)
