kilometre

British

/ kɪˈlɒmɪtə, ˌkɪləʊˈmɛtrɪk, ˈkɪləˌmiːtə /

noun

km. one thousand metres, equal to 0.621371 miles

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Other Word Forms

kilometric adjective

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"The whole world is connecting, and something that happened 10,000 kilometres away is also in Cape Town or Germany or wherever," he said.

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"What we're looking at today is how to put up to 100,000 players on maps of 100, 200 or 300 square kilometres."

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In the nearby West Bank city of Ramallah, 15 kilometres north of Jerusalem, Palestinians mostly carried on with life as usual, with markets in full swing and conversations only occasionally interrupted by overhead blasts.

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The drone had been stopped over 10 kilometres away from "the Charles de Gaulle, which in any case is fully ready to be completely protected, with every measure in place", she added.

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However, the US Congressional Research Service estimates they top out at about 3,000 kilometres -- less than a third of the distance to the continental United States.

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