[ noun ] a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) <noun.quantity>
Kilometer \Kil"o*me`ter\, Kilometre \Kil"o*me`tre\, n. [F. kilometre. See {Kilogram}, and {Meter}.] A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.84 feet, or 0.62137119 of a mile.
Moreover, the population is unevenly distributed: 1,000 people a square kilometer in the Red River Delta against 20 in the highlands of central and southern Vietnam.
Interviewed at his office in Bern, Commander Luthy declares: "Per square kilometer, we have more tanks, more guns, more airplanes than any other army in the world.
There's no periscope and there is water inside, but a two-man submarine built by students is MIT's bet to crack the eight-minute kilometer and win the First International Submarine Race.
After that you have to think about making kilometer lengths of it and that may take another two years to make the first prototypes," he says.
After a year of research and $100,000 in seed money from the lab, Gary Alley's team has developed a transmitter about one-fourth the size of a postage stamp that sends an infrared beam more than a 1 kilometer.
Officials have said the idea is to create a 100- kilometer (62-mile) zone of confidence along the border with neutral Austria.