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A kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres. It is approximately equal to 0.621 miles, 1094 yards or 3281 feet.Slang terms for kilometre include " klick" (or "click") and "kay". ("Click" is also used for kilometres per second.)
hectometre << kilometre << megametre
1 See also
- 1 E3 m to compare the length of a kilometre
- SI
- SI prefix
- Orders of magnitude
- light yearA light year abbreviated ly is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9. 46 × 1012 kilometres (9. 46 petametres, or about 5. 88 × 1012 miles). More specifically, a light year is defined as the distance that a photon would travel, in free space an
- parsecThis article is about the unit of length. In computer programming, Parsec is an XML syntax analyzer, like Lark, or a parsing library for the Haskell programming language. There's an open source computer game named Parsec . The parsec (abbreviated pc is a
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SI derived units of length
