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Kilometer

//kɪˈlɒmɪtə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    US spelling of kilometre. US, alt-of

    "When classes start in September, the University of Macau’s new campus — still under construction on about a square kilometer, or roughly 250 acres, on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province — will be “handed over” to Macau governance in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing."

  2. 2
    a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) wordnet

Etymology

From kilo- + meter.

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