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It is used in the International System of Units, where it has the symbol k, in lowercase. The prefix kilo is derived from the Greek word χίλιοι ( chilioi ), meaning "thousand". In 19th century English it was sometimes spelled chilio, in line with a puristic opinion by Thomas Young .
In other words, an area of 1 000 000 square metres and not 1000 square metres. 2 Mm 3 means two cubic megametres , or the volume of two cubes of 1 000 000 m by 1 000 000 m by 1 000 000 m , i.e. 2 × 10 18 m 3 , and not 2 000 000 cubic metres ( 2 × 10 6 m 3 ).
The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are Quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles ...
In chess notation, the letter K represents the King (WK for White King, BK for Black King). In baseball scoring, the letter K is used to represent a strikeout. A forwards oriented K represents a "strikeout swinging"; a backwards oriented K represents a "strikeout looking". As an abbreviation for OK, often used in emails and short text messages.
Both distributions lack K, Q, W and Y, since they are only used in foreign words. However, you can still use a blank to represent these letters. The letter X is also used only in loanwords and a few native words, [citation needed] but it is not so rare, so it is included.
Chinese characters represent the only major logographic writing systems still in use: they have historically been used to write the varieties of Chinese, as well as Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other languages of the Sinosphere. As each character represents a single unit of meaning, thousands are required to write all the words of a language.
1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. In most English-speaking countries, it can be written with or without a comma or sometimes a period separating the thousands digit: 1,000. A group of one thousand things is sometimes known, from Ancient Greek, as a chiliad. [1]
In some video games K means 1,000 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Full Throttle FURY (talk • contribs) 16:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC). K stands for kilo (Latin for thousand, I think). Sala Skan 22:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC) As well, K is the only Scrabble tile with point value 5. Should I add that to the article?