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It is the abbreviation for Kilo (1000 grams) which has been extended to multiply any quantity by 1000.
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It stands for “kilo”. In the metric system, prefixes are used to denote amounts.
Milli=0.001
Centi=0.01
Deci=0.1
Deca=10
Hecta=100
Kilo=1,000
Mega=1,000,000
For example, a centimeter is 0.01 (or one one hundredth) of a meter. A kilogram is 1,000 grams. I hope that helps.
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It stands for the “kilo-” prefix in words like kilogram, kilometer, which means “1000 times bigger”.
I suppose that when the French were inventing all their metric weights and measures just after the French Revolution, they must have coined this prefix from the Greek word chilia = thousand.
Then from the Latin word mille = thousand they coined the prefix “milli-” to mean “1000 times smaller”.
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14 kumquat. I took a little longer to answer because I mis-read the question as a ‘number between 0 and 1000 that BEGINS with letter ‘K’. I’m so stupid…..