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nouna metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)type of:part of:
Definition that contains kilometer
- li Chinese distance measure; approximately 0.5 kilometers
- au a unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)
- kph the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours)
- light minute the distance light travels in a vacuum in one minute; approximately 18 million kilometers
- long wave a radio wave with a wavelength longer than a kilometer (a frequency below 300 kilohertz)
- cubic kilometer a unit of capacity equal to the volume of a cube one kilometer on each edge
- km/h the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours)
- light second the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second; approximately 300,000 kilometers
- solar prominence large eruptions of luminous hydrogen gas that rise thousands of kilometers above the chromosphere
- cubic kilometre a unit of capacity equal to the volume of a cube one kilometer on each edge