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Collins English-English Dictionary
- kilo-
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1.
prefix
denoting 103 (1000) k
- kilometre
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2.
prefix
(in computer technology) denoting 210 (1024): kilobyte: in computer usage, kilo- is restricted to sizes of storage (e.g. kilobit) when it means 1024; in other computer contexts it retains its usual meaning of 1000
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3.
prefix
[Etymology]
from French, from Greek khilioi thousand
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1.
prefix
denoting 103 (1000) k
Examples
- 30p a kilo
- 每公斤30便士 → a
- apples at £2 a kilo
- 苹果每公斤两镑 → at
- sold by the kilo/metre
- 按公斤/米卖 → by
- half a pound/kilo/mile {etc}
- 半磅/公斤/英里{等} → half
- per kilo
- 每公斤 → per
- 给我称一公斤苹果。
- I'd like one kilo of apples, please. → 称
- 这个包裹过重一公斤。
- This parcel is overweight by one kilo. → 过重
- 给我约一公斤猪肉。
- Weigh me out one kilo of pork. → 约
- 他在农贸市场以很便宜的价格买了一斤后臀尖。
- He bought a kilo of hunched part of the haunch pork at very cheap price in the vegetable market. → 后臀尖
- 这一捆子柴火拿到集上能换回半斤肉呢！
- This bale of firewood can be sold on the market and is worth half a kilo of meat. → 捆子
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