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Meanings of kilometers in English
Unit of length equal to 1,000 meters.
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Examples for "km"
Examples for "km"
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Ninety percent of New Zealand's population lived within 25 km of police.
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Located only 1500km north of Antarctica, volcanoes rise sharply from the sea.
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The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is about 10km from the Chernobyl hotel.
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The authorities say radiation levels outside the 20km evacuation zone are safe.
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The 25km travel limit will remain for another fortnight, Mr Andrews said.
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It's moving west southwest at a rate of six kilometres per hour.
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The situation isn't much cheerier 16 kilometres away from the impact either.
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Photo: Supplied Two separate fires several kilometres apart started on 13 February.
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Both are several kilometres from the coast, and therefore on higher ground.
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Others walked as far as 20 kilometres through swirling ash to safety.
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The demand for transport in South Africa is lower per square kilometre.
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Authorities continue to impose a four-kilometre exclusion zone around the active volcano.
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How can a mere seven-kilometre stretch of sand deliver such different experiences?
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It flattened vast swathes of forest over a 2000 square kilometre area.
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The distance to the foot of the rapids was about a kilometre.
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A new Ford Focus, for example, will emit 115 grams per kilometer.
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It was about a kilometer away, across a carefully prepared obstacle course.
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I left bamboo flags along the way, every half kilometer or so.
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Gettner wasn't heading for the usual landing area a kilometer away, either.
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Your electricity company built inspection plates every kilometer inside the borough limits.
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Alex, take us in to a quarter klick, and hold station there.
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Dalrymple said, 'We see a second vehicle about a klick east of you.
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There was a different route, however, a pass approximately half a klick wide.
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The jumar point is less than a klick north of the landing ledge.
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The datacore's wiped cleaner than your tax records, six hundred thousand klick range.
Usage of kilometers in English
1
The constant is expressed in terms of kilometers per second per megaparsec.
2
We'll not be going much more than one thousand kilometers per second.
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The speedometer registered 136 kilometers per hour and was still moving forward.
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The frigate had moved ten million kilometers in-system from their rendezvous point.
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Besides, it's moving at a hundred and ten thousand kilometers per hour.
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Right now we're four million kilometers away from the Formic ship's trajectory.
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Dizzy was fifteen kilometers from home and going in the wrong direction.
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She said patients were being moved a few kilometers to higher ground.
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The Vetas Grandes property covers an area of approximately 300 square kilometers.
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Already our radius of action is down to a few million kilometers.
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Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System, measures 5262 kilometers across.
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Windows were shattered in suburbs several kilometers from the scene, residents said.
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According to the sign, the next village straight ahead was sixteen kilometers.
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Earth had about one and a third billion square kilometers of land.
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Seven hours to cover twenty-five kilometers, on foot, across the open valley.
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Water is scarce and Taiz is some 100 kilometers from the coast.
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