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Kilogramme

Kilogram \Kil"o*gram\, Kilogramme \Kil"o*gramme\, n. [F. kilogramme; pref. kilo- (fr. Gr. chi`lioi a thousand ) + gramme. See 3d Gram.] A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046226 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39[deg] Fahrenheit.

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kilogramme

n. (context British English) (alternative spelling of kilogram English)

Usage examples of "kilogramme".

They carry it by the kilogramme in their trunks, and they are so clumsy that they always pack it at the top.

I even gave you an extra kilogramme of Glow in order to pay for new vessels.

Eight metres long, three thousand kilometre range, mach point seven zero cruising speed, one thousand kilogramme direct-impact fused HE charge.

The lot will then be divided between the butchers in the arrondissement, at twenty centimes per kilogramme below the retail price.

Oort cloud with a gravitational footprint of less than a kilogramme more or less indefinitely.

At one point alone, the Rue Jacob, a hundred kilogrammes had been turned out during the night.

She said it as if she was stating a fact that could not be argued, like the number of kilogrammes in a ton, or the weight of a cubic metre of water.

He then told me that he had sufficient capital to buy twenty kilogrammes a month and finance its distribution in Paris and asked me if I were interested in working for him.

Unlike many of his academic colleagues Jack never pretended to be unmoved by treasure, and for a moment he let the thrill of holding several kilogrammes of gold wash through him.

Overhead electric railways connected the most populated parts of the Republic, and every day tens of thousands of people and millions of kilogrammes of material passed along these roads from one town to another.

Not only the diameters, but also the weights, of the French coins are rigidly determined by law, and as the silver five-franc pieces always weigh exactly twenty-five grammes, the united weight of forty of these coins is known to amount to one kilogramme.

No one who had studied his character could be much surprised at the confession that was extorted from him, that for every supposed kilogramme that he had ever sold the true weight was only 750 grammes, or just five and twenty per cent.