KILOMETRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kilometre mean? 

• KILOMETRE (noun)
  The noun KILOMETRE has 1 sense:

1. a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)

  Familiarity information: KILOMETRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KILOMETRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

kilometer; kilometre; klick; km

Hypernyms ("kilometre" is a kind of...):

metric linear unit (a linear unit of distance in metric terms)

Meronyms (parts of "kilometre"):

hectometer; hectometre; hm (a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters)

Holonyms ("kilometre" is a part of...):

mym; myriameter; myriametre (a metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters)

Domain region:

Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

Each cell covers more than a quarter of the star’s diameter and measures about 120 million kilometres across.

(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)

Dust appears to lie in a belt that extends a few hundred million kilometres from Proxima Centauri and has a total mass of about one hundredth of the Earth’s mass.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)

The other team from Monash University, Australia, identified a planet at about 39 billion kilometres from the star.

(ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star, ESO)

The researchers estimate that more than half of the total groundwater in the uppermost one kilometre of the Earth’s crust is fossil groundwater.

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)

Based on the same set of crystals from Borgarhraun, the researchers found that magma can rise from a chamber 20 kilometres deep to the surface in as little as four days.

(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)

The Amazon lost 7,989 square kilometres of rainforest between August 2015 and July 2016, according to a survey published by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) based on late 2016 government data.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

For many species, observations already show that the rate of movement towards the poles is more than 50 kilometres per decade.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

It is located roughly three billion kilometres from the central star, roughly equivalent to the distance between Uranus and the Sun.

(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)

Though the object is 300 kilometres across, it is currently a colossal four billion kilometres from Earth, making gathering data from its dark, carbon-rich surface a demanding scientific challenge.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)

This deprives people within 100 kilometres of the coast, especially children, of important and easily accessible nutrients.

(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)