A base metric multiple used globally to measure geographic distances, road lengths, and vehicle speeds. It equals 1,000 metres or approximately 0.621 miles. In engineering and infrastructure projects, it serves as the primary scale for large-scale planning, pipeline routing, and civil earthworks.
Heard on the job
The new fiber optic trunk line runs exactly 42 kilometres from the exchange to the data center.
Also heard as
- kilometer
- km
- klick