Kilo vs Thousand - What's the difference?

As a noun kilo

is short form of lang=en.

As a numeral thousand is

a numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10^{3

kilo English

Noun
(en noun)

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The letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

See also
* kilo-

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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
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Derived terms
* hundreds and thousands, mother of thousands, Thousand Islands, thousandfold, thousandth, thousandaire

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