kilograms
- 1Plural of kilogram.
The shipment came in at just over five hundred kilograms.
Athletes in this weight class must stay under sixty kilograms.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, that falls back to the singular when the unit describes a noun: a one-kilogram mass, a sixty-kilogram limit. In precise usage, kilograms measure mass, the amount of matter in something. Using them as a unit of weight, so that a kilogram mass is also a kilogram weight, is objected to in careful technical writing.
kilograms is a form of kilogram
kilogram, noun: The base unit of mass in the International System of Units, originally defined as the mass of one liter of water and now fixed using the Planck constant. Full entry
- Forms
- kilogramkilograms plural
- Spelling
- kilogram → kilograms: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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