As a numeral thousand
is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to = 10 × 100 = 103.
As a letter k is
the eleventh letter of the.
As a symbol k is
symbol for potassium.
thousand
English
Alternative forms
* Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
* Roman numerals: M
* ISO prefix: kilo-
* Exponential notation: 103
Numeral
(
en noun)
(cardinal) A numerical value equal to = 10 × 100 = 103
- The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
- Many thousands of people came to the conference.
Usage notes
Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine'', the word ''thousand'' is a noun like ''dozen and needs a determiner to function as a numeral.
* a thousand''' men / one '''thousand''' men / the '''thousand men
* compare a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men
* compare ten men / the ten men
Thousand'' can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take ''-s when preceded by a determiner.
* two thousand''' men / some '''thousand men
* thousands''' of men / hundreds of '''thousands of men
Synonyms
* (numerical) a thousand, one thousand
*
Derived terms
* hundreds and thousands, mother of thousands, Thousand Islands, thousandfold, thousandth, thousandaire
See also
*
Statistics
*
k
Translingual
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(
wikipedia k)
Letter
The eleventh letter of the .
See also
(
Latn-script)
{{Letter
, page=K
, NATO=Kilo
, Morse=–·–
, Character=K
, Braille=?
}}
* Uppercase: K
* With cedilla:
* With hook:
* With
* With acute:
* With dot below:
* With line below:
* (kra)
* (kappa)
* (ka)
Image:Latin K.png, Capital and lowercase versions of K , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter K.png, Uppercase and lowercase K in Fraktur
Symbol
(Voiceless velar plosive)
(head)
voiceless velar plosive.
(label) Boltzmann's constant
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