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KILOMETER meaning: 1. a unit of measurement equal to 1,000 meters 2. a unit of measurement of length equal to 1000…. Learn more.
- When Australians First Said 'Kilometre'
- A Prime Ministerial Intercession
- Nature, Like Language, Shirks Order
- So, Uh, Which Should I use?
Early Hansard appearances crop up in the first decade after Federation, when GB Edwards, a Liberal proponent of decimal and metric conversion, urged parliamentto avoid the "insular prejudice" of British coin makers and embrace the efficiencies of global trade in metric. While metric units had been used in Australia's scientific instruction, the wor...
The idea of Gough Whitlam as a progressive maverick can probably be traced back to his establishment of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, the introduction of no-fault divorce, or perhaps his involvement setting up, in Medibank, publicly funded universal healthcare. But Whitlam, perhaps taking after his highly irregular given name, was also at ...
The demand that English pronunciation adhere to fixed natural phenomena — in this case, the International System (SI) of units — seems not so dissimilar to 18th century ideas that language should conform to some pre-Babelian purity. Besides: have you ever looked at SI base units? "The kilogram is the unit of mass," runs one SI definition. "It is eq...
Today, almost all dictionaries include both pronunciations without any usage notes. Style manuals (even historically conservative ones such as Fowler's) now see both pronunciations as widespread. Normally in such dispute, one pronunciation achieves a bandwagon effect to gain the upper hand, but as the authors Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of...
KILOMETER definition: 1. a unit of measurement equal to 1,000 meters 2. a unit of measurement of length equal to 1000…. Learn more.
1 day ago · A kilometer is a metric unit of distance or length. One kilometer is a thousand meters and is.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
KILOMETRE definition: a unit for measuring distance, equal to 1000 metres. Learn more.
the basic SI unit of length; the length of the path travelled by light in free space during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. In 1983 this definition replaced the previous one based on krypton-86, which in turn had replaced the definition based on the platinum-iridium metre bar kept in Paris. are metre centimetre.
a unit for measuring distance; 1 000 metres. The industrial estate is 6 kilometres from the city centre. She had been driving at 110 kilometres per hour.; Monaco is only two square kilometres in size.
