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kilometre
/ ˌkɪləʊˈmɛtrɪk; ˈkɪləˌmiːtə; kɪˈlɒmɪtə /
noun
- one thousand metres, equal to 0.621371 miles km
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Derived Forms
- kilometric, adjective
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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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