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词汇 kilometer
释义 kilometer
noun[ C ]
US(UKkilometre)us/kɪˈlɑː.mə.t̬ɚ//ˈkɪl.əˌmiː.t̬ɚ/uk /ˈkɪl.əˌmiː.tər//kɪˈlɒm.ɪ.tər/(written abbreviationkm)
A2
a unit of measurement equal to 1,000 meters
Examples

He walks two kilometers to work every morning.
They were going at about 60 kilometers an hour when their car hit the tree.
We traveled northeastwards for about 250 kilometers.
A few kilometers from the crowded beaches of Spain's Mediterranean coast, many once-thriving towns stand deserted and in ruins.
According to the map, the village lies about 10 kilometers to the east of here.
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kilometer | American Dictionary


kilometer
noun[ C ]
us/kəˈlɑm·ət̬·ər, ˈkɪl·əˌmit̬·ər/(abbreviationkm)
a unit of measurement of length equal to 1000 meters or 0.62 mile

Examples of kilometer


kilometer
The longitudinal sections extend up to two kilometers downstream of the dam.
These patients travel long distances, often hundreds of kilometers, to reach public hospitals created for their care.
In this manner, approximately 20 m2 of surface can be examined per kilometer of rover travel.
Second, the new village did not make sense socially, given the way the bedouin live, for the site was seven kilometers from the existing village.
Several kilometers to the south, the village is small and comprises primarily a single extended family.
The largest villages contained at most one thousand inhabitants and rarely extended for more than a kilometer.
Eighty-six linear kilometers of the upper and middle sections of the river were surveyed.
A significant part of the total genetic variation (19 %) occurred among the five local populations studied, separated by a few kilometers only.
A scale specifies fine-grained representation formats for an aspect, for example, a distance aspect has multiple scales such as meter, kilometers, and nautical mile.
Encompassing an area of 375 square kilometers, this world-class business environment supports a range of enterprises, from tourism to professional services to light manufacturing.
However, it is thought that inelastic, adhesive, and collective interactions between micrometer-sized dust particles give rise to kilometer-sized bodies, which are known as planetesimals.
As a result, a more appropriate area for the new village was seemingly agreed to, about one kilometer from the first proposed site.
The population density of the other villages is between 138 and 404 people per square kilometer.
A series of data collection legs approximately 1 kilometer in length were planned and conducted in the exercise.
The spatial distance aspect supports multiple distance scales such as meter, kilometer, and nautical mile.
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