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What is the noun for kilo?

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kilogram
  1. In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one liter of water, and now defined as the mass of a specific cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France. Symbol: kg
  2. (proscribed) Hence, the unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “A kilogram is equal to 1000 grams and is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units.”
      “One individual can produce one kilogram of garbage everyday, which is a burden for garbage collectors and the environment.”
      “Also, please keep in mind that no matter where you are, a kilogram equals 2.2 pounds.”
kilo
  1. Clipping of kilogram.
  2. The letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He survived by selling scrap metal he scrounged from construction sites for 60 cents per kilo.”
      “The whole month of April will see every visitor to the showroom receive half a kilo of tamarind fruit.”
      “At present, Mulka Station on the Birdsville track, generates twenty kilo Watts of power from artesian bore water heated by hot rocks.”
kilopond
  1. A gravitational metric unit of force equal to the magnitude of the force exerted by a mass off one kilogram in the standard gravity (i.e. at the surface of the earth).
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kilogramme
  1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of kilogram
  2. Examples:
    1. “The price paid to the country's 600,000 cocoa farmers will be set at 380 CFA francs a kilogramme, a rise of 15 CFA francs on the previous season.”
      “Astronomers measure the brightness of stars in units called magnitudes but this is not a unit like a meter or a kilogramme.”
      “A raid by army troops and intelligence agents on the town uncovered the 10 kilogramme belt concealed in a solar water tank.”
kilogrammes
  1. plural of kilogramme
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He explained that 22,053,231 Kilogrammes was Virginia while 18,800,00 kilogrammes was burley tobacco.”
      “The province boasts 14,000 bee-keepers that on average produce 88 kilogrammes of honey each and a total of 1,000 tonnes of bees wax annually.”
      “A santal woman may carry as much as fifteen kilogrammes of ornaments on her body.”
kilograms
  1. plural of kilogram
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Their opinion is no more valid than it would be if they declared pounds henceforth equivalent to kilograms.”
      “Birth weight was recorded in pounds and ounces and converted into kilograms.”
      “Take your weight in kilograms and divide it by your height in metres squared.”
kiloponds
kilos
  1. plural of kilo
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When you travel overseas with television gear you sometimes have to pay hundreds of pounds for dozens of extra kilos.”
      “There's no hint yet of the kilos of fat that will transform these lithesome beauties one day, after marriage, into stately matriarchs.”
      “It was a long, hard haul and the resultant catch, just a few kilos, seemed dishearteningly small.”
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