klickとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

• Most likely a pseudo-condensed pronunciation of kilometer, being a suitably short word emphasizing k+l instead of /keɪ/ alone (the same principle as with military spelling alphabets, but also clearly distinguished from kilo (/kiːloʊ/) for kilogram).
• Possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of a military odometer. When a soldier would complete a mark, they would signal to their commander and denote movement of 1,000 meters by hoisting up their rifle and moving the gas regulator with their thumb, which made a "click" the commander could hear.

名詞

klick (plural klicks)

1. (military slang) A kilometer.
   • 1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:

     Several klicks closer, the ruins of the City of Poets rose jaggedly against the skyline.

   • 2002 May, Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids (The Neanderthal Parallax; 1), Tor, →ISBN, page 82:

     an asteroid between one and three kilometers wide had slammed into the ground at fifteen klicks per second.

   • 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Sierra 117:

     Chief, can you hear me?...(static) My bird's down. Half a klick -(static)- downriver from your position.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:klick.
2. (slang, usually in the plural) Kilometres per hour.

使用する際の注意点

Though kilometers are not commonly used to measure distance in the USA, klick is commonly used by the US and UK militaries, which use the metric system almost exclusively in order to facilitate communication with allied forces. (In other English-speaking countries, civilians often say "k" or "k.m." instead.)

同意語

• (military slang: kilometer): click

語源 2

名詞

klick (plural klicks)

1. Alternative spelling of click (mostly as an interjection)

アナグラム

• L-kick