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kilometer

/ki-lom-i-ter, kil-uh-mee‐/US // kɪˈlɒm ɪ tər, ˈkɪl əˌmi‐ //

千米,公里,公里数,公里的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1,000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km

Examples

  • The core collapses in on itself — plummeting at 150,000 kilometers per hour — causing temperatures to surge to 100 billion degrees Celsius and fusing the core into a solid ball of neutrons.

  • The universe was expanding, and Hubble clocked its expansion rate at 500 kilometers per second per megaparsec, a constant that now bears his name.

  • The International Air Transport Association said last week that global passenger demand dropped significantly during November, down 70% versus the same period of 2019 when measured in revenue passenger kilometers.

  • In addition, radio interference from Earth wouldn’t be registered by telescope sites separated by hundreds of kilometers.

  • Their X-rays shine from gas that measures 3 million to 4 million degrees Kelvin as it expands outward at 300 to 400 kilometers per second.

  • That means it probably flew back up as much as a kilometer before coming back down.

  • Her clothes and purse were found a kilometer away with money still in her wallet.

  • Several people have been killed by artillery shells from Syria that landed on the Turkish side of the 900 kilometer border.

  • He also says the “spirit of Eataly is contrary to the Slow Food movement or zero kilometer initiative to eat local.”

  • “We are now losing 300 cubic kilometer of ice a year in Greenland,” said Wadhams.

  • I preset two forward radiators for forty kilometers at low condensation, with a three kilometer radius at surface.

  • And so it appeared to me, for the Germans were dropping their shells from the southeast, at least one kilometer over range.

  • The line of support was furthermore about one kilometer in the rear.

  • Suppose a difference of a millimeter in the cause produces a difference of a kilometer in the effect.

  • If I win in case the effect corresponds to a kilometer bearing an even number, my probability of winning will be 1/2.