klom

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Contraction of kilometer. Perhaps first used in Julian May's 1981 novel The Many-Colored Land.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

klom (plural kloms)

  1. A kilometre.
    • 1983, Julian May, The Many-Coloured Land (paperback), Pan Books, Ltd., →ISBN, page 291:
      It’s a crater more than twenty-five kloms in diameter.
    • 1986, Donald Kingsbury, The Moon Goddess and the Son, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 195:
      “All the way to L-One? That’s 56,000 kloms above the moon.”
    • 2011, Chris Wooding, The Iron Jackal, Indigo, →ISBN, page 26:
      Then he reminded them what would happen if they did that at three hundred kloms an hour.

Usage notes[edit]

  • Mainly used in science fiction.

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /klɔm/
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

klom

  1. singular past indicative of klimmen

Anagrams[edit]

Slovak[edit]

Noun[edit]

klom

  1. inflection of kel:
    1. instrumental singular
    2. dative plural