klom
See also: kłom
English edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of kilometer. Perhaps first used in Julian May's 1981 novel The Many-Colored Land.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɒm
Noun edit
klom (plural kloms)
- A kilometre.
- 1983, Julian May, The Many-Coloured Land (paperback), Pan Books, Ltd., →ISBN, page 291:
- It’s a crater more than twenty-five kloms in diameter.
- 1986, Donald Kingsbury, The Moon Goddess and the Son, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 195:
- “All the way to L-One? That’s 56,000 kloms above the moon.”
- 2011, Chris Wooding, The Iron Jackal, Indigo, →ISBN, page 26:
- Then he reminded them what would happen if they did that at three hundred kloms an hour.
Usage notes edit
- Mainly used in science fiction.
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klom
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Noun edit
klom
- inflection of kel: