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KM
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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 ("km" is a kind of...):
metric linear unit (a linear unit of distance in metric terms)
Meronyms (parts of "km"):
hectometer; hectometre; hm (a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters)
Holonyms ("km" is a part of...):
mym; myriameter; myriametre (a metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters)
Context examples:
The study used elevation data obtained by MESSENGER and LRO to measure approximately 15,000 simple craters with diameters ranging from 2.5 km to 15 km (about 1.5 miles to 9.3 miles) on Mercury and the Moon.
(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)
The researchers compiled a two-dimensional thermal map showing the temperature distribution along the patera, and at a resolution better than 6.25 miles (10 km).
(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The wreck was located about 50 miles (80 km) south of Okinawa, Japan at a depth of over 1400 feet (about 430 meters), far from where the Navy's records initially predicted it would be.
(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)
During the mission’s approach phase, between mid-August and early December, the spacecraft traveled 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km) on its journey from Earth to arrive at a location 12 miles (19 km) from Bennu on Dec. 3.
(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)
Smoke particles from the fires ravaging Australia have traveled more than 12,000 km, crossed an ocean and a mountain range and arrived in South America, meteorological institutions confirmed, after smoke was detected in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a rare collection of mummified scarab beetles, as well as an apparently pristine Fifth Dynasty tomb they plan to open in the coming weeks in the Saqqara necropolis, 30 km (19mi) south of Cairo.
(Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover One-Of-A-Kind Tomb South of Cairo, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
That's lower than auroras on Earth, which range from 100 km to 500 km high.
(Auroras on Mars, NASA)
The team also used the SPHERE observations to constrain Hygiea’s size, putting its diameter at just over 430 km.
(ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet Yet in the Solar System, ESO)
Since 2004, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has been reduced by more than 70%, after the second-highest peak ever since it has been monitored (27,772 km²).
(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)
One of the country's least studied biomes, the caatinga stretches across ten Brazilian states and encompasses ten percent of the country's national territory, with 844 thousand square km.
(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)
