kilogram

English

Alternative forms

• kilogramme

Etymology

From French kilogramme, composed of kilo- + gramme.

Pronunciation

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Noun

kilogram (plural kilograms)

1. In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; the mass of a specific cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France. Symbol: kg
2. (proscribed) Hence, the unit of weight such that one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.

Usage notes

• (proscribed, unit of weight): The use of the kilogram as a unit of weight is somewhat imprecise, as weight can change while mass remains constant. The weight of a one-kilogram mass will depend on its location, because the pull of gravity varies from one place to another. It is therefore frequently proscribed, but is nonetheless in wide use (e.g., a person's weight in kilograms). (The same imprecision and proscription also occur with many other words pertaining to weight and mass, such as the verb weigh.)

Translations

unit of mass equal to 1000 grams

Afrikaans: kilogram (af) Arabic: كيلوغرام (ar) (kilughraam) m. Armenian: կիլոգրամ (hy) (kilogram), (colloquial) կիլո (hy) (kilo) Bengali: কিলো (bn) (kilō) Bulgarian: килограм (bg) (kilográm) m. Catalan: quilogram (ca) m. Chamicuro: kilo Chinese: Mandarin: 公斤 (cmn) (gōngjīn), 千克 (cmn) (qiān-kè) Czech: kilogram (cs) m. Dutch: kilogram (nl) m. Esperanto: kilogramo (eo) Estonian: kilogramm (et) Finnish: kilogramma (fi) French: kilogramme (fr) m., kilo (fr) m. Galician: quilogramo (gl) m. German: Kilogramm (de) n. Greek: χιλιόγραμμο (el) (chiliógrammo) n., κιλό (el) (kiló) n.,

Hindi: किलो (hi) (kilō) Hungarian: kilogramm (hu) Indonesian: kilogram (id) Italian: chilogrammo (it) m., chilo (it) m. Japanese: キログラム (ja) (kiroguramu), キロ (ja) (kiro) Korean: 킬로그램 (ko) (killogeuraem) Latvian: kilograms (lv) m., kilo (lv) m. Persian: کیلوگرم (fa) Polish: kilogram (pl) m., kilo (pl) n. Portuguese: quilograma (pt) m. Romanian: kilogram (ro) n. Russian: килограмм (ru) (kilográmm) m. Sotho: kilogeramo (st) Spanish: kilogramo (es) m. Swedish: kilogram (sv), kilo (sv) Tatar: kilogram (tt) Turkish: kilogram (tr), kilo (tr)

See also

• Kilogram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Czech

Noun

kilogram m.

1. kilogram

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Dutch

Noun

kilogram m.

1. kilogram

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kʲiˈlɔɡram/

Noun

kilogram m.

1. kilogram

Declension

    declension of kilogram

	singular	plural
nominative	kilogram	kilogramy
genitive	kilograma	kilogramów
dative	kilogramowi	kilogramom
accusative	kilogram	kilogramy
instrumental	kilogramem	kilogramami
locative	kilogramie	kilogramach
vocative	kilogramie	kilogramy

Synonyms

• (coll.) kilo

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kîloɡram/
• Hyphenation: ki‧log‧ram

Noun

kȉlogram m. (Cyrillic spelling ки̏лограм)

1. kilogram

Declension

    declension of kilogram

	singular	plural
nominative	kilogram	kilogrami
genitive	kilograma	kilograma
dative	kilogramu	kilogramima
accusative	kilogram	kilograme
vocative	kilograme	kilogrami
locative	kilogramu	kilogramima
instrumental	kilogramom	kilogramima

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Tatar

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Declension

    declension of kilogram

Nominative	kilogram
Genitive	kilogramnıñ
Dative	kilogramga
Accusative	kilogramnı
Locative	kilogramda
Ablative	kilogramdan