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| a thousand calories or one 'large' calorie, a unit used in physics to describe the heat needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree centigrade |
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| one thousand cycles, a unit used in the physics of wave motion (it has begun to be replaced by the kilohertz) |
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| one thousand grams, a unit of weight equal to a bit more than two pounds |
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| a thousand liters, a unit of vilume equal to about 264 gallons |
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| a thousand meters, a unit of distance equal to about .6 miles |
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| a thousand bar, a unit of pressure |
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| a thousand dyne, a unit of force |
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| a thousand gauss, a unit of the measure of magnetic flux |
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| a thousand joule, a unit of energy |
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| a thousand lumen, a unit of light intensity |
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| a thousand parsec, a unit of astronomical distance |
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