"kilo-" meaning in English

See kilo- in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prefix

Etymology: From French, kilo- irregularly derived from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “one thousand”). The etymologically "correct" form would be chili- or chilo-, resulting in forms such as chiliasme (“chiliasm”) or chilopode (“centipede”); but the French, when creating the prefix, had to avoid a possible (standard) pronunciation of chi as /ʃi/, too close to the vulgar verb chier. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ǵʰes-}}, {{uder|en|fr|-}} French, {{der|en|grc|χίλιοι||one thousand}} Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “one thousand”) Head templates: {{head|en|prefix|head=|sort=}} kilo-, {{en-prefix}} kilo-
  1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 1,000. Symbol: k Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): Thousand Synonyms: chilia-
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with Indonesian translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Malagasy translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Marathi translations, Terms with Nepali translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations, Terms with Thai translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of 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  2. (computing) Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2¹⁰ (1024) Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-kilo--en-prefix-9Yt1iCmU Categories (other): Terms with Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 54 46 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (prefix): kilo- (Albanian), kilo- (Basque), кіла- (kila-) (Belarusian), кило- (kilo-) (Bulgarian), quilo- (Catalan), kilo- (Catalan), 千- (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 千- (cin¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 千- (qiān-) (Chinese Mandarin), kilo- (Czech), kilo- (Danish), kilo- (Dutch), kilo- (Esperanto), kilo- (Estonian), kilo- (Finnish), kilo- (French), quilo- (Galician), kilo- (German), χιλιό- (chilió-) (Greek), χιλιο- (chilio-) (Greek), 千- (chhiên-) (Hakka Chinese), सहस्र- (sahasra-) (Hindi), kilo- (Hungarian), kíló- (Icelandic), kilo- (Ido), kilo- (Indonesian), kilo- (Ingrian), cilea- (Irish), chilo- (Italian), kilo- (Italian), キロ- (kiro-) (Japanese), 킬로 (killo-) (Korean), kilo- (Latvian), kilo- (Lithuanian), kilao- (Malagasy), kilo- (Malay), सहस्र- (sahasra-) (Marathi), सहस्र- (sahasra-) (Nepali), kilo- (Norwegian Bokmål), kilo- (Norwegian Nynorsk), kilo- (Polish), quilo- (Portuguese), kilo- (Portuguese), kilo- (Romanian), кило- (kilo-) (Russian), kilo- (Serbo-Croatian), kilo- (Slovak), kilo- (Slovene), kilo- (Spanish), quilo- (Spanish), kilo- (Swedish), libo- (Tagalog), กิโล- (gì-loo) (Thai), kilo- (Turkish), кіло- (kilo-) (Ukrainian), ki-lô (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'prefix': 0 0

Alternative forms

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