kilo

  • 31Kilo — Kilo, Kilosz, türk. Getreidemaß in Konstantinopel = 1770, in Salonichi = 6752, in Alexandrien = 86623/5 Par. Kubikzoll …

    Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • 32kilo- — {{hw}}{{kilo }}{{/hw}}o (comunemente) chilo  primo elemento  (la variante chilo  è vietata nei documenti ufficiali ma persiste nei termini della lingua comune quali chilometro , chilogrammo , contachilometri  ecc.). 1 Anteposto a un unità di… …

    Enciclopedia di italiano

  • 33kilo- — [kılə] prefix [in nouns] [: French; Origin: Greek chilioi thousand ] a thousand used with units of measurement …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 34kilo- — [kılə] prefix [in nouns] [: French; Origin: Greek chilioi thousand ] a thousand used with units of measurement …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 35kilo- — [ kılou ] prefix 1000 units: used with some nouns: kilogram kilometer …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 36kilo- — LAff tausend std. ( ) Entlehnung. Bei der französischen Festlegung der Maßeinheiten 1790 als Modifikator mit der Bedeutung tausend festgelegt (nach gr. chílioi tausend ) und in die anderen modernen Sprachen übernommen. So Kilometer, Kilogramm,… …

    Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • 37kilo- — Elemento compositivo prefijo que se antepone a unidades de medida para designar unidades mil veces mayores: kilogramo, kilopondio, kilovatio. La variante quilo está en desuso …

    Diccionario panhispánico de dudas

  • 38kilo — (n.) 1870, shortening of KILOGRAM (Cf. kilogram). Slang shortening key (in drug trafficking) is attested from 1968 …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 39kilo- — element meaning one thousand, introduced in French 1795, when the metric system was officially adopted there, from Gk. khilioi thousand, of unknown origin …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 40kilo — (kilogram) ki·lo || kɪːləʊ n. unit of weight equalling one thousand grams …

    English contemporary dictionary