kilogram

Meaning

Noun

• In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant to be 6.626 070 15 × 10^-34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m²⋅s⁻¹. Symbol: kg
• The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.

Related

Similar words

• kilo
• kg

Origin

• From French kilogramme; synchronically analyzable as kilo- + gram.