noun
definition
(official BIPM spelling, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, Indian and South African spelling) An SI unit of length equal to 103 metres. Symbol: km
Examples of kilometer in a Sentence
The Squaw Valley Resort has an 18 kilometer cross-country ski area.
The development site is situated within a new 12 kilometer touristic zone.
The organization funds research projects about women's health and fitness, holds an annual research conference and sponsors an annual five kilometer race.
For Terrestrial Planet Finder, five spacecraft, flying in formation about one kilometer apart, will function as an optical interferometer.
It is scattered along a 5 kilometer stretch of the A449 between Crossway Green and Ombersley.
Every year, each square kilometer of hot desert receives solar energy equivalent to 1.5 million barrels of oil.
In the 1939 eruption, lava of about 0.1 cubic kilometer flowed out.
Depending on the distance, the trip costs 90 centavos for the first five kilometers, then 25 centavos for every further kilometer.
Before I'd walked more than a kilometer I came across fresh scat on the trail.
Before I 'd walked more than a kilometer I came across fresh scat on the trail.
The project has acquired the appellation, the Square Kilometer Array.
Approximately 175 kms away from Muscat Nizwa is renowned for its gold and silver handicrafts and its eight kilometer long palm oasis.
To put it another way, this is the same angle subtended by an object 3mm high when seen from a kilometer away !
It was the first European satellite to carry a radar altimeter and was launched into an 800 kilometer altitude and 98.5 degree inclination orbit.
It is a proposed 33 kilometer long superconducting particle accelerator with built-in X-ray lasers planned to begin operating in 2012.
The MODIS sensor is able to image precipitable water vapor with an unprecedented resolution of 1 kilometer.