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Definition: Kilo |
KiloNoun1. One thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the System International d'Unites; "a kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds"; "they were carrying two keys of heroin". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "kilo" was first used: 1870. (references) |
Etymology: Kilo \Ki"lo\, noun; plural Kilos. [French]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Kilo- pref. [SI] See {quantifiers. Source: Jargon File. |
Aerospace | Prefix meaning multiplied by 1000.Abbreviation k. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A prefix representing one thousand. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Kilo (symbol: k) is a prefix in the SI system denoting 103 or 1,000. For example:
"Kilo" is often used by itself as an abbreviation for "kilogram".
- kilogram is 1000 gramss
- kilometre is 1000 metres
- kilowatt is 1000 watts
- kilojoule is 1000 joules
In computing, kilo does not always exactly denote 1000 but is usually equivalent to 1024 (210), most often when denoting storage. For example, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, not 1000 bytes. However, kilo and mega often have their traditional SI meanings when referring to rates of data transfer. For instance, 56 kilobits per second is 56,000 bits per second, not 57,344 bits per second.
A common convention is to use k for 1000 and K for 1024.
Kilo is also the letter K in the NATO phonetic alphabet
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kilo."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
KILO | English | Kollmorgen International Logistics Organization | N/A |
| kips | English | Kilo instructions per second | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: KiloSynonyms: key (n), kg (n), kilogram (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Kilo |
| English words defined with "kilo": Kilos. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "kilo": KT. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Kilo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (kilo), Dutch (kilo), Esperanto (keel), Finnish (kilogram), French (kilo), Frisian (kilo), German (kilo, kilogram), Guarani (kilogram), Norwegian (kilo), Papiamen (kilo), Romanian (kilo), Spanish (kilo, kilogram, kilogramme), Swahili (kilo), Turkish (kilo, kilo-). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kilo tissa wa tissaine (1956) Ein Albtraum von 3 1/2 Kilo (2002) Yankee 2 Kilo (2001) Pacas de a kilo (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | View on the Lerma [i.e Santiago River] near Kilo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hacienda near Kilo, A. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Light weight" by Thomas Johansson Commentary: "A detail from my fathers old weight. Kilo is swedish..." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | It is estimated that 70 cents per kilo will be paid for this service, under government tender offers. (references) | |
DIEMs vary according to the product (ranging between $2 and $20 per kilo) however, one should expect to pay around 35 percent in import tariffs. (references) | ||
Economic History | Denmark | In addition, a SO2 tax of DKK 10 (USD 1.14) per kilo of SO2 emitted is imposed on all fuels. (references) |
Switzerland | The U.S. supplied 88 percent of total Swiss fresh green asparagus imports in 1996, although competition from Spain caused this to dip to 80 percent in 1997. Swiss consumption is close to one half kilo per person. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Many of Uzbekistan's rural inhabitants receive no regular cash income; they depend on kitchen gardens and barter to survive, and their only cash income comes from picking cotton in the autumn (at 14 soum, or about a penny and half, per kilo). (references) | |
Human Rights | Cuba | In early April, Guillermo Alberto Alea Acosta, a 34-year-old common prisoner in the prison Kilo Cinco y Medio in Pinar del Rio, died due to lack of medical attention. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Kilo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.69% of the time. "Kilo" is used about 153 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.69% | 151 | 25,596 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.31% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 153 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "kilo": half a kilo ♦ kilo instructions per second. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "kilo": kilo-calories, kilo-hertz. | |
Ending with "kilo": demi-kilo, Half-kilo, multi-kilo, three-kilo. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "kilo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kilogram. (various references) | |
Albanian | kilogram (kilogram). (various references) | |
Arabic | كيلومتر, ألف جرام. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | килограм (kilogram), километър (kilometer, kilometre). (various references) | |
Catalan | quilo. (various references) | |
Chinese | 公斤 (kg, kilo-, kilogram, Kilogramme, Kilos). (various references) | |
Czech | kilogram (kg, kilogram). (various references) | |
Danish | kilo. (various references) | |
Dutch | kilo, kilogram (kg, kilogram, kilogramme). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kilogramo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | kilogramm. (various references) | |
Farsi | یک کیلوگرم معادل هزارگرم . (various references) | |
Finnish | kilogramma (kilogram), kilo-, k. (various references) | |
French | kilo. (various references) | |
Frisian | kilo. (various references) | |
German | kilo (kilogram). (various references) | |
Greek | κιλό (kilogram). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kilogram. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kilogramm (kilogram). (various references) | |
Irish | cileagram. (various references) | |
Italian | chilo (kilogram, kilogramme). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | キレート滴定 (10^3, chelatometric titration, kilo-, kilogram, kilometre). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | キロ (10^3, kilo-, kilogram, kilometre). (various references) | |
Korean | 킬로 (kilo-, Kilos). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kilo. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kilogram, kilo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilokay.(various references) | |
Polish | kilogram. (various references) | |
Portuguese | quilograma (kilogram, kilogramme), quilo (kilogram, kilogramme). (various references) | |
Romanian | kilogram (kilogram, kilogramme). (various references) | |
Russian | килограмм (kilogram, kilos). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kilogram (kilogram). (various references) | |
Spanish | kilo (kilogram, kilogramme). (various references) | |
Swahili | kilo. (various references) | |
Swedish | kilogram (kilogram, kilogramme). (various references) | |
Thai | กิโลกรัม (คำย่อของ kilogram). (various references) | |
Turkish | kilo (kilo-), kílo. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кілограм (kilogram, kilogramme), кіло. (various references) | |
Zulu | ilikhilogramu, ikhilogramu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | khilioi. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "kilo": kilobar, kilobars, kilobase, kilobases, kilobaud, kilobauds, kilobit, kilobits, kilobyte, kilobytes, kilocalorie, kilocalories, kilocycle, kilocycles, kilogauss, kilogausses, kilogram, kilograms, kilohertz, kilojoule, kilojoules, kiloliter, kiloliters, kilometer, kilometers, kilomole, kilomoles, kiloparsec, kiloparsecs, kilopascal, kilopascals, kilorad, kilorads, kilos, kiloton, kilotons, kilovolt, kilovolts, kilowatt, kilowatts. (additional references) | |
Words containing "kilo": poikilotherm, poikilothermic, poikilotherms. (additional references) | |
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"Kilo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ailo, Akulov, Akyol, Cielo, Cildo, cillo, cilo, Ciullo, ikle, iko, ikol, Ikuo, illo, jilo, Kaizo, kal, kalb, Kalk, Kallu, Kalo, Kaloi, kalon, Kalou, Kalu, kalv, kao, kaxo, Kclo, Kelco, Kelk, kello, kellog, keso, keto, kevo, Khilkov, kiaou, kibl, kibo, kido, kigo, kihon, Kiko, kil, kilan, Kilcork, kild, kile, Kileo, kilg, kili, kilj, killa, kille, killi, killo, Killoe, Killom, Killum, kilm, Kilmory, kilno, kilog, kilom, kilop, kilor, kilow, Kilson, kily, kiml, kimo, kio, Kito, Kiula, kle, kli, klia, klic, Klik, Klip, klo, klok, klon, knla, Koiso, kolo, Kolok, Kolov, kool, kozlu, Krio, Krislov, Krivoy, Kuile, kule, kuli, Kulkov, Kulo, kyl, kyli, Kyllo, Kylo, Kyloe, nilo, Okello, rilo, zilo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "kilo" (pronounced ki"lō') |
| 3 | -i" l ō' | willow. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-l-o" | |
-1 letter: ilk, koi, oil. | |
-2 letters: li, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-l-o" | |
+1 letter: kilos. | |
+2 letters: folkie, hokily, jokily, kaolin, keloid, pokily. | |
+3 letters: bowlike, boxlike, cockily, colicky, cowlick, doglike, flokati, folkies, folkish, foxlike, godlike, hillock, hoblike, hoelike, hoglike, holking, inkblot, kaoline, kaolins, keitloa, keloids, killjoy, killock, kilobar, kilobit, kilorad, kiloton, kinfolk, kolbasi, linkboy, locking, looking, milksop, oaklike, oarlike, oatlike, obelisk, odalisk, oilskin, outkill, owllike, pockily, podlike, potlike, rodlike, rollick, smokily, sonlike, soymilk, toelike, toylike, yolkier. | |
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