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Table of contents
1 English

1.1 Prefix

1.1.1 Etymology
1.1.2 Translations
1.1.3 Related terms

2 French

2.1 Prefix

English

Prefix

Etymology

From French, irregular from Greek chilioi, thousand. The "correct" form would be chili-, resulting in forms such as chiliogram and chiliometer. In fact, one such form (lacking the connecting vowel -o-, which is explained at Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia) used to exist in English: chilihedron, meaning a thousand-faced solid.

  1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 1,000. Symbol: k

Translations

Related terms

French

Prefix

kilo-

  1. kilo-

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The noun "kilo" has one sense:

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