kilometre

/ kɪˈlɒmɪtə; ˌkɪləʊˈmɛtrɪk; ˈkɪləˌmiːtə /

noun

1. one thousand metres, equal to 0.621371 miles km

Derived Forms

• kilometric, adjective

Example Sentences

More areas of railway can be electrified, but this is costly: in 2020, Network Rail estimated electrification would cost £1m-£2.5m per kilometre of track.

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"The benefits to fibre in the water is you don't need to excavate and you can run over a kilometre without having to do any land. You're just utilising the water network to provide fibre to properties at home," he said.

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"We were patrolling through a high populated Taliban area. Knowing it’s the most dangerous kilometre square area in the world, that was reported at the time, we called it IED central," he said.

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The BBC has been given rare access to Jiuquan Satellite launch centre in Gansu and we are just over a kilometre away from blast-off.

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Just over a kilometre away, 26-year-old Nadine is trying to take her mind off everything for a few hours.

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