kilometre

/ kɪˈlɒmɪtə; ˌkɪləʊˈmɛtrɪk; ˈkɪləˌmiːtə /

noun

1. one thousand metres, equal to 0.621371 miles km

Derived Forms

• kilometric, adjective

Example Sentences

Finally we stopped about a kilometre from a little village, which must be nameless.

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For a kilometre, it was a struggle, side by side, but an unequal struggle in which the issue was certain.

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Theodorics tomb is in La Rotonda, a kilometre or more from Ravenna in the midst of a vineyard.

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There are sixty-six kilometres of roads to the square kilometre (kilometre carré).

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They average, taken together, eighty-three kilometres to the kilometre carré.

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