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Kilo vs Meter - What's the difference?

kilo | meter |

As nouns the difference between kilo and meter

is that kilo is (l), short form of kilogram (unit of mass equal to 1000 grams) while meter is meter (unit of measure, 100 cm).

kilo

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo .}}
  • The letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
  • See also

    * kilo-

    Anagrams

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    meter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * metre (Commonwealth English for noun senses 4 to 7, rare for other senses)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (always meter ) A device that measures things.
  • (always meter ) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
  • gas meter
  • (always meter ) (dated) One who metes or measures.
  • (chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
  • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter ) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • (chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
  • (chiefly, US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
  • (chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
  • (obsolete) A poem.
  • Derived terms

    * altimeter * centimeter * common meter * feed the meter * kilometer * long meter * metric * metrical * millimeter * odometer * pedometer * pentameter * short meter * spectropolarimeter * tachymeter * tetrameter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to measure with a metering device.
  • to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter
  • Anagrams

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