Word: kilos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of the Navy Adams cancelled the Lexington's sailing orders, reconsidered Tacoma's request. Naval officers admitted that the Lexington's 190,000 h. p. plant could generate nearly three times (140,000 kilowatts) the amount of electricity required by Tacoma (50,000 kilo-watts), that transfusion of this power from the ship to the city's distributing stations was altogether practicable. But if the ship were sent, might not a precedent be set?civilians being the importunate souls they are?that would keep the Lexington dashing up and down the Pacific Coast, and her sister the Saratoga...
...perhaps, unfortunate that Professor McAdie has here and there given prominence to certain of the new units, such as the new Blue Hill temperature scale and the Kilobar. The sentence (p.48), "in five minutes the ballon was a mile high, the pressure 840 Kilo bars, the temperature 1060, or there had been a fall of 30 Kilograds," certainly conveys very little to the average reader unless he thinks rather intensely and makes his conversions himself before he proceeds to the next sentence. Yet professor McAdie is well-known as an ardent advocate of these new units, has fought a hard...
...World-Quart" bill is a metric system bill. It proposes to make standard throughout the U. S. the metre (world yard), the litre (world quart) and the one-half kilo gram (world pound). The world yard and world pound are about 10% greater than our present measures, and the world quart about 5% greater than our present quart. The use of these measures would be made obligatory in merchandising (not in manufacturing...
...term " kilocycle " will eventually supplant " wavelength " in the jargon of the radio fan. The U. S. Bureau of Standards has approved it. Abbreviate it kc. The frequency will be expressed in thousands of cycles per second-in other words, kilo cycles. To transmute wavelengths to kilocycles, divide 300,000 by the number of meters, or to obtain meters, divide 300,000 by kilocycles...