kilomile
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]kilomile (plural kilomiles)
- (rare) A unit of length equal to one thousand miles.
- 1975, Poul Anderson, After Doomsday, London […]: White Lion Publishers Limited, →ISBN, page 69:
- So our broadside will intercept his completely—nothing will get through—at a distance of half a kilomile.
- 2000 December 12, Mike Oliver, “My blatantly trolling question”, in alt.usage.english[1] (Usenet):
- Oh, I see. You're one of those "trendy" folks that needs a new car every decade or hundred kilomiles. I still love my trusty 1976 280Z with 170K miles (I bike most places, which is why it isn't more miles).
- 2006 September 4, Ian Ayres, Barry Nalebuff, “Why Not? Easy Savings”, in Forbes, volume 178, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 146, column 2:
- Looking at gallons per 1,000 miles makes the comparison easy. The Escalade's fuel usage went from 66.6 to 60.6 gallons per kilomile, while the Prius' consumption fell from 20 to 16.6 gallons per kilomile. Saving 6 gallons beats saving 3.3.
- 2016, Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, Steve Coogan, Alan Partridge: Nomad, London: Trapeze, →ISBN, page 83:
- The route, a close collaboration between myself and the AA route planner, totals 160 miles. To put that into context, if you were to refer to a thousand miles as a 'kilomile' then the trek I am about to attempt is almost one fifth of a kilomile.