different between thousand vs kiloelectronvolt

Translingual

Etymology

From English thousand

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tau?zænd] ^[sic]

Numeral

thousand

1. Code word for combinations of thousand (that is, the digits 000 or the thousands spacer) in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

   one zero thousand nine four six meter (10,946 m)

Usage notes

The code word 'thousand' is used when reciting distances (including altitudes), but not for serial numbers. That is, a serial number 10,946 would be read simply as its digits: one zero nine four six.

References

English

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 1000 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: M
• ISO prefix: kilo-
• Exponential notation: 10³

Etymology

From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þ?send (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þ?sundi, from Proto-Germanic *þ?sund? (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian t?kstantis (“thousand”), Russian ??????? (týsja?a)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??a?z?nd/, IPA^(key): [??a?zn?d]
• (US) enPR: thou?z?nd, IPA^(key): /??a?z(?)nd/, [??a??z??nd]
• Hyphenation: thou?sand

Numeral

thousand (plural thousands)

1. A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³

Usage notes

Unlike cardinal numerals such as ten or ninety-nine (where one can say e.g. there were ten men present), the word thousand is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or another numeral to function as a numeral: one cannot say *there were thousand men present, but must say:

• there were a thousand men / one thousand men / forty-three thousand men present
• one can also speak of the thousand men, several thousand men, or some thousand men who were present
• compare a dozen men / one dozen men / forty-three dozen men, the dozen men, several dozen men, some dozen men

When preceded by a determiner or numeral and followed by of, it can be singular or plural:

• two thousand of the inhabitants died, several thousand of the inhabitants fled
• many thousands of women marched
• "Aragorn should find some two thousands of those that he had gathered to him in the South; but Imrahil should find three and a half thousands; and Éomer five hundreds of the Rohirrim who were unhorsed but themselves warworthy." (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King)

When followed by of and not preceded by a determiner or numeral, it must be pluralized with -s: thousands of women protested, countless thousands of women voted, not *thousand of women.

Synonyms

• (numerical): a thousand, one thousand

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds

Descendants

• ? Hawaiian: kaukani

Translations

Anagrams

• handouts, hands out

English

Etymology

kilo- +? electronvolt

Noun

kiloelectronvolt (plural kiloelectronvolts)

1. (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French kiloélectronvolt

Noun

kiloelectronvolt m (plural kiloelectronvol?i)

1. kiloelectronvolt

Declension