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The basic unit of mass adopted under the System International d'Unites
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Extracted hazardous materials Crec charges its clients 82 cents per kilogram to dismantle computers in a factory once used to manufacture them. ▪ It is available in 250 gram and 400 gram bags as well as 20 kilogram bales, to ...
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The kilogram or kilogramme (SI unit symbol: kg ), is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) (the Metric system ) and is defined as being equal to the mass of the International Prototype of the Kilogram ( IPK , also known as "La ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one thousand grams," 1797, from French kilogramme (1795); see kilo- + gram .
WordNet
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n. one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds" [syn: kg , kilo ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one liter of water, and now defined as the mass of a specific cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of kilogram.
At least four hundred kilograms of anthrax, prepared in dry form for use as an aerosol, would be required for ten warheads.
And the most wonderful part is that a piece of tape one centimeter square holds around a hunderd million of these little artificial gecko setae and can actually support a weight of one kilogram.
And the most wonderful part is that a piece of tape one centimeter square holds around a hundred million of these little artificial gecko setae and can actually support a weight of one kilogram.
The counter-mass, a kilogram of harmless plastic chips, sprayed behind the launcher as the rocket shot from the tube.
Before he quit Belgrade, a thumbnail-sized sample of Uranium 235 was stolen from the Vinca Institute, and the records were changed to show that a full fifteen kilograms had really gone missing.
Give him fifteen millilitres per kilogram stat over the next ten minutes.
Mirror was permeable only to objects of less than about a hundred kilograms.
In the year in which I electronically set down these words, standing in close sight of the end of the twentieth century, I find that I can ordinarily manage with a mere couple of kilograms of that dear crumbly soil, sealed sanitarily in a plastic bag beneath my bottom sheet or mattress.
M1D7 you see up there weighed 360,000 kilograms and had armor thick enough and strong enough to defeat any antitank weapon of its day.
The heavy baseplate, bridge, and standard, weighing altogether over 100 kilograms, are not needed.
Stahn hurtling through cislunar vacuum, Stahn wrapped inside the fifteen kilograms of imipolex that had once been Wendy and which now was Quuz.
The pitons, for example, were fastened with a type of glue that supposedly would hold a hundred kilograms and therefore prevented the need to bang holes noisily in solid granite.
Phosrock broke down somewhere along a tonne of ore processed down to sixty kilograms of formanite, an essential ingredient in the new deep-space tracking systems.
Portsmouth OH reports four kilograms of enriched uranium hexafluoride missing and then suffers a cataclysmic fire that forces evacuation of six downwind counties.
Moana to fly him, giving her three nanograms of quantum dots and five kilograms of imipolex for her pay.