[a. F. kilomètre (1795): see KILO- and METRE. (The stress is marked by Webster (1828), Craig, and Cassell as kilo·metre.)] In the Metric system, a measure of length containing 1000 metres, or 3280.89 feet, or nearly five-eighths of a mile. Also Comb., as kilometre-stone (cf. mile-stone).
1810. Naval Chron., XXIV. 301. Killometer, 1000 M.
1868. Morn. Star, 25 Feb. The tunnel will cost 160,000l. per kilometre.
1881. Halsted, Mensuration, 2. The kilometer is used as the unit of distance.
1888. Pennell, Sent. Journey, 166. The kilometre-stones no longer marked the distance.
