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say it: KIL-oh
kilo is a noun meaning "one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites". It is pronounced /ˈkɪˌloʊ/ — KIL-oh. It carries one recorded sense.
one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
“a kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for kilo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.