"chiliometre" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "kilometre"
        }
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          "ref": "1802, A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts:",
          "text": "A chilliometre; M. 0; F. 4; Y. 213; Ft. 1; In. 10.2; […] 8 chiliometres are nearly 5 miles.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1807, William Vincent, The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, volume 1:",
          "text": "It is the attempt also of the Arabian and European mathematicians; and is now said to be reduced to precision by the French calculators, in order to form a natural basis for all measures. But how their metres, myriametres, and chiliometres, will be adopted by the people is still a matter of experiment.",
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        {
          "ref": "1810, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, and Other Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture, page 51:",
          "text": "The springs which supply these salt-works are about a chiliometre (rather more than half a mile) from the town of Moutiers, in the centre of Salins, a small village near the junction of the two rivers Doron, in a valley of the same name.",
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        {
          "ref": "1829, Alexander Jamieson, A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous Knowledge, volume 2:",
          "text": "It appears also from Coulomb’s experiments, that a man going up stairs for a day raises 205 chiliogrammes (a chiliogramme is equal to three ounces five drams avoirdupois) to the height of a chiliometre (a chiliometre is equal to 39571 English inches);",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1868, Cusack Patrick Roney, Rambles on Railways...:",
          "text": "Each of these 40 chiliometres has cost 1,000,000 francs, or £40,000, making the total cost of the railway independent of the special rolling stock for working it, £1,600,000, or at the rate of £64,000 a mile.",
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        "Obsolete spelling of kilometre."
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  "word": "chiliometre"
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        {
          "ref": "1802, A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts:",
          "text": "A chilliometre; M. 0; F. 4; Y. 213; Ft. 1; In. 10.2; […] 8 chiliometres are nearly 5 miles.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1807, William Vincent, The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, volume 1:",
          "text": "It is the attempt also of the Arabian and European mathematicians; and is now said to be reduced to precision by the French calculators, in order to form a natural basis for all measures. But how their metres, myriametres, and chiliometres, will be adopted by the people is still a matter of experiment.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1810, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, and Other Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture, page 51:",
          "text": "The springs which supply these salt-works are about a chiliometre (rather more than half a mile) from the town of Moutiers, in the centre of Salins, a small village near the junction of the two rivers Doron, in a valley of the same name.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1829, Alexander Jamieson, A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous Knowledge, volume 2:",
          "text": "It appears also from Coulomb’s experiments, that a man going up stairs for a day raises 205 chiliogrammes (a chiliogramme is equal to three ounces five drams avoirdupois) to the height of a chiliometre (a chiliometre is equal to 39571 English inches);",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1868, Cusack Patrick Roney, Rambles on Railways...:",
          "text": "Each of these 40 chiliometres has cost 1,000,000 francs, or £40,000, making the total cost of the railway independent of the special rolling stock for working it, £1,600,000, or at the rate of £64,000 a mile.",
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        "Obsolete spelling of kilometre."
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