kilo — meaning in English

English meaning

• kilo noun Clipping of kilogram.
• kilogram noun The base unit of mass in the metric system, equal to 1,000 grams and officially defined today through a fixed value of the Planck constant.

Senses

kilo is used for these senses in English:

• kilo (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Kilo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
• kilogram In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m2⋅s−1. Symbol: kg

kilo — full definition

1. noun Clipping of kilogram.
2. noun Alternative letter-case form of Kilo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

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