How does the word sound?
History of this Word
"kilo" is from "khilioi" (thousand) spoken by people of Greece starting about 1000 B.C.
Notes
In this sense, it is a word added to another word to form a new word. In computer terminology binary numbers are used where one thousand is 1024.
More words with this prefix,
kilogram
kilometers
Definition
A prefix added to the start of a word. Indicates that "thousand" modifies the word. Created to expand meanings. Can be used with many words to form new words.
Examples of how the word is used
| It will include a 400 kilowatt solar panel. |
| A file size is measured in kilobytes (KB). |