kilogram

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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 h 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.

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Borrowed from French kilogramme. By surface analysis, kilo- + gram.

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