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    The kilometre (SI symbol: km; / ˈ k ɪ l ə m iː t ər / or / k ɪ ˈ l ɒ m ə t ər /), spelt kilometer in American English and Philippine English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo-being the SI prefix for 1000).

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  3. Kilometre (km), unit of length equal to 1,000 metres and the equivalent of 0.6214 mile (see metric.

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  4. They're all based on the base unit of distance. But when we're measuring volume or we're measuring other things in the metric system, these same prefixes also show up. So you see here when we're measuring distance, kilo refers to 1,000. A kilometer is literally 1,000 meters. Hecto refers to 100.

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  5. 1 day ago · A kilometre is a metric unit of distance or length. One kilometre is a thousand metres and is equal to around 0.62 miles.

  6. A kilometer is a unit of Length or Distance in the Metric System. The symbol for kilometer is km. There are 0.001 kilometers in a meter. The International spelling for this unit is kilometre.

  7. Gravitational metric systems use the kilogram-force (kilopond) as a base unit of force, with mass measured in a unit known as the hyl, Technische Masseneinheit (TME), mug or metric slug. Although the CGPM passed a resolution in 1901 defining the standard value of acceleration due to gravity to be 980.665 cm/s 2 , gravitational units are not ...

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