[a. F. kilogrammètre: see prec. and METRE.] The quantity of energy required to raise a weight of one kilogramme to the height of one metre.
1866. Odling, Anim. Chem., 104. It is convenient to apply the expression kilogram-metre to the product of the kilogrammes lifted into the metres of height.
1871. B. Stewart, Heat (ed. 2), § 314. The unit of work being always the amount represented by raising one kilogramine one mètre against terrestrial gravity, or the Kilogrammetre.
1878. Tolhausen, Technol. Dict., Kilogrammeter.
