kilometer

It's valid if you're a square kilometer of dirt and you're afraid of being mugged on.

Outdoors, this could mean up to a kilometer. Indoors, users may have to be as close as a few hundred yards.

Took me a moment to realize what was wrong about "1024 meters in a kilometer". I think I need to go outside more.

Madrid comes in at $58m/km, Paris and Berlin at $250m/km, and anything in the USA at over $1 billion per kilometer. NYC at $1700m/km.

Yesterday they put up a 50km/h sign for half a kilometer at my drive to work due to some roadwork, today it was gone again.

He cross-country skiied in the 10-kilometer classic in Nagano ... and came in dead last.

Great, this means that the kilometer assembly line making gears, piston and other stuff is now completely useless. The investment goes down the drain.

200 years ago it was more like the millimeter to the kilometer, from the millisecond to the century.

Wifi points every few hundred meters, small cell towers every kilometer or two. I bet in those situations, someone could derive a pretty close record of "your moves".

Maybe it's because I live on the internet and think there's 1024 meters in a kilometer, but I didn't find this surprising or worrisome in the least. I would expect all large stores to perform data-mining, that data is valuable.

It levitates up to a kilometer above the surface because of these properties. Dust got in everything, and was an eye and lung irritant on the entire trip back for Apollo missions that included a moonwalk.

The length of the Bay Bridge is a kilometer more than the combined lengths of the Brooklyn, Manhattan & Williamsburg bridges, all of which connect Brooklyn & Manhattan. And that's without even mentioning the ease of travel between Manhattan & Queens or Manhattan & the Bronx.

Holes are cut 1 to 3 meters wide and up to a kilometer deep. The atomic devices are assembled on site and placed in the hole, usually accompanied by lead-protected diagnostic canister that contains sensors to record the explosion.

What separated her or her children from me, was that I was born a good kilometer north of where she lived, where the slums were. I was born to a father with a masters in chemical engineering, who had the means, resources, and the knowledge to know he had to get out of there if he wanted a better life for himself or his children.

The bus stop is 500m or half a kilometer away from my home, etc. While nobody converts 250km to meters, when the value is closer to one, both units of measurement are equally useful and equally used.

A Google Pumping station every half kilometer or so, they are going to use the barometers in Android phones to give feedback on their actions. So if you need sunny weather the pumping stations will pull air from outside the area in and heat it up, if you want it to rain they will create a low pressure zone by pumping air out to a different zone.

Now notice that if you're solving a 4 dimensional equation, you can't have two of the spatial coordinates have precisions of less than 10 meters while one of them is inaccurate to the kilometer! In practice, if you have a "good enough" clock and a "good enough" barometer, you can hone into the approximate city, or 100 meter radius circle much faster --- after picking up just two GPS signals.