kilometer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a metric unit of length equal to one thousand meters

   The town is still a kilometer away.

2. 2
   noun

   US spelling of kilometre.

   When classes start in September, the University of Macau’s new campus — still under construction on about a square kilometer, or roughly 250 acres, on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province — will be “handed over” to Macau governance in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing.

Etymology

From kilo- + meter.