What is "klick"

Usage examples of "klick".

Northwest more than a thousand klicks along the high ridge from Gunung Agung is Kilimacharo, where the denizens of the lower terraces disinter their dead from the loamy fissures after a decent interval and carry the bones high above breathable atmosphere -- climbing in handsewn skinsuits and pressure masks -- to rebury their relatives in rock-hard ice near the eighteen-thousand-meter level, with the skulls staring through ice toward the summit in eternal hopefulness.

She knew that the moment she saw the location of the disturbance: a Calvin cycler in trouble at Grenville Point, less than two klicks from his last known position.

The Dorje Phamo travels in a palanquin carried by four heavily muscled males because she is the abbess of Samden Gompa, an all-male monastery some thirty klicks out along the south wall of the same ridge that holds the Temple Hanging in Air along its north wall.

She is a woman of immense importance and a separate monastery for women -- the Oracle Gompa at Yamdrok Tso, some sixty klicks farther along the dangerous ridge wall -- has held her as its prefect and avatar for more than seventy standard years.

Stargazer Clan, part of the Fifth Fleet of the Zetetic Flench - but its real-time memories only began from the instant it had woken up here, a zillion klicks from anywhere, slap bang in the middle of nothing with the shit kicked out of it.

The marquee directed her to elevators in Stanchion 5, one klick east by pedway, but Zoranna was tired.

An unchambered Bender might vibrate itself into another dimension, leaving a smoking crater a klick across behind it.

How many tons of aerogel and composite traveling at how many klicks, and they were letting a teenager land it?

Two-point-five klicks west of the seawall, a band of botflies and exoskels formed a north-south line and began sealing off skyways and tunnels.

Warlock, There was the time Scale had ordered him to drive over two hundred klicks to a tiny hamlet in the foothills of the Darks, The long-armed man had been told to stay put, sit in the land wag for as long as it took for Scale to conduct his business, ostensibly a visit to this real high-class cathouse the ville boasted.

The ranges between the objects and the clouds have varied out to sixty thousand klicks.

I had estimated that original monster as perhaps ten klicks long -- these zeplinlike work beasts must have been several hundred klicks long, perhaps longer when one factored in the countless tentacles, tendrils, flagella, whips, tails, probes, and proboscises the things sported.

Peacock might have dumped us a thousand klicks from Mummichog because the place was too damned dangerous.

The road ahead lit up blue-white with their retrofire, and the poor darlings found themselves about half a klick downroad from us.

Thirty klicks out there were hill-straddling palaces of a new superclass a step above the hoi polloi cluttering Tregesser Horata High City.