kilo
pronunciation
How to pronounce kilo in British English:
UK [ˈki:ləʊ]
How to pronounce kilo in American English:
US [ˈkiloʊ]
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- Noun:
- one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
Word Origin
- kilo
- kilo: [19] Khílioi was Greek for a ‘thousand’. It was adopted in French in the 1790s as the prefix for ‘thousand’ in expressions of quantity under the new metric system, and various compound forms (kilogram, kilolitre, kilometre, etc) began to find their way into English from the first decade of the 19th century onwards. The first recorded instance of kilo being used in English for kilogram dates from 1870.
- kilo (n.)
- 1870, shortening of kilogram. Slang shortening key (in drug trafficking) is attested from 1968.
Example
- 1. Only products containing less than 2.5 milligrams of melamine per kilo will be allowed into the eu .
- 2. It takes at least three kilos of fish meal to add one kilo to the weight of a farmed salmon .
- 3. But manufacturers are scaling up production and dr cui expects the cost will fall to $ 20 a kilo .
- 4. In africa a kilo of beef can be produced with as little as 146 litres of water .
- 5. Macmillan said the labels would not involve " litres per kilo " stickers , but should reflect the practise of good water stewardship whether companies are working hard to use water in ways that conserve it , use it efficiently and are environmentally sustainable .