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To Kilometers -- Kilometers To Miles Conversion
- The kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol km -- is
a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and
is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space
in 1/299 792.458 of a second. It is the conventionally used measurement
unit for expressing distances between geographical places in most of the
world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom
where the statute mile is used. A slang term for the kilometre in the military
is klick and in common speech involving distance it is often abbreviated
as simply a k (kay). -- A mile is a unit of length in a number of
different systems. In contemporary English, a mile most commonly refers
to the statute mile of 5,280 feet (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres), the
survey mile of 5,280 survey feet (1609.3472 m) or the nautical mile of
1,852 metres (6,076.12 ft). It is about a third of the old measurement,
the league. Use this page to convert one to the other. |
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Agnostic Conversions! - Isn't it frustrating when someone tells you that
it's 30° Celsius, and you don't know have a clue to what that means,
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