(electricity) A unit of energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour.

A non-SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 calories, used (now rare) in chemistry or physics; equal to 1 calorie as used in nutrition. Symbol kcal.

Alternative spelling of kilolitre One thousand liters.

A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many thousand tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. / One thousand tons.

Alternative form of kilogram-metre

A thousand cycles (of any periodic phenomenon). / (elliptically) A thousand cycles per second; a kilohertz.

A unit of frequency equal to one thousand cycles per second; one thousand hertz

plural of kilocycle

One thousand ( 10³ ) amperes. Symbol: kA or KA.

plural of kiloamp