Also chiliogramme. [a. F. kilogramme (1795): see KILO- and GRAMME, GRAM.] In the Metric system, a weight containing 1000 grammes, or about 2.205 lb. avoirdupois.
1810. Naval Chron., XXIV. 299. The French weight called Kilogramme. Ibid., 301. Killogram (weight of cubic decimeter of water).
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 53. A man going up stairs for a day raises 205 chiliogrammes to the height of a chiliometre.
1871. [see next].
1898. H. O. Arnold-Forster (title), The Coming of the Kilogram, or the Battle of the Standards.
