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発音

• 韻: -ɒm

名詞

klom (複数形 kloms)

1. 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.

使用する際の注意点

• Mainly used in science fiction.