Home › Words › K › kilohourkilohourkilohour means one thousand hours. Symbol: khrs.EtymologyFrom kilo- + hour.nounOne thousand hours. Symbol: khrs.e.g.“On the horizontal axis we measure kilo- hours of lighting; each kilohour is 1,000 hours, the service provided by each of the first type of bulbs.” — 1996, Edgar K. Browning, Mark A. Zupan, Microeconomic Theory and Applications:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.kiloohm 71% match — One thousand (10³) ohms. Symbol: kΩ. vs kilohour →kilohertz 67% match — A unit of frequency equal to one thousand cycles per second; one thousand hertz vs kilohour →kiloerg 64% match — A unit of work equal to one thousand ergs. vs kilohour →kilocurie 64% match — A unit equal to 1,000 curies. vs kilohour →kilovolt 63% match — One thousand volts. Symbol: kV or KV. vs kilohour →kilolitre 62% match — A unit of volume equivalent to 1000 litres, and equal to one cubic metre. Symbol: kL or kl. vs kilohour →kiloamp 61% match — One thousand ( 10³ ) amperes. Symbol: kA or KA. vs kilohour →kilocycle 60% match — A thousand cycles (of any periodic phenomenon). vs kilohour →