Measurement unit: kiloseconds

Full name: kilosecond

Plural form: kiloseconds

Symbol: ks

Alternate spelling: kilosec

Category type: time

Scale factor: 1000




SI unit: second

The SI base unit for time is the second.
1 second is equal to 0.001 kiloseconds.



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Definition: Kilosecond

The SI prefix "kilo" represents a factor of 103, or in exponential notation, 1E3.

So 1 kilosecond = 103 arcseconds.

The definition of a second is as follows:

A second of arc or arcsecond is a unit of angular measurement which comprises one-sixtieth of an arcminute, or 1/3600 of a degree of arc or 1/1296000 (approximately 7.7×10-7) of a circle. It is the angular diameter of an object of 1 unit diameter at a distance of 360×60×60/(2pi) (approximately 206,265 units), such as (approximately) 1 cm at 2.1 km, or, directly from the definition, 1 astronomical unit at 1 parsec.


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