chiliometre

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Noun

chiliometre (plural chiliometres)

  1. Obsolete spelling of kilometre.
    • 1802, A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts:
      A chilliometre; M. 0; F. 4; Y. 213; Ft. 1; In. 10.2; [] 8 chiliometres are nearly 5 miles.
    • 1807, William Vincent, The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, volume 1:
      It is the attempt also of the Arabian and European mathematicians; and is now said to be reduced to precision by the French calculators, in order to form a natural basis for all measures. But how their metres, myriametres, and chiliometres, will be adopted by the people is still a matter of experiment.
    • 1810, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, and Other Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture, page 51:
      The springs which supply these salt-works are about a chiliometre (rather more than half a mile) from the town of Moutiers, in the centre of Salins, a small village near the junction of the two rivers Doron, in a valley of the same name.
    • 1829, Alexander Jamieson, A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous Knowledge, volume 2:
      It appears also from Coulomb’s experiments, that a man going up stairs for a day raises 205 chiliogrammes (a chiliogramme is equal to three ounces five drams avoirdupois) to the height of a chiliometre (a chiliometre is equal to 39571 English inches);
    • 1868, Cusack Patrick Roney, Rambles on Railways...:
      Each of these 40 chiliometres has cost 1,000,000 francs, or £40,000, making the total cost of the railway independent of the special rolling stock for working it, £1,600,000, or at the rate of £64,000 a mile.

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