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(1000; thousand)
ISO: kilo- (k)
- Demography: The population of Ascension Island is 1,122.
- Typesetting: 2,000–3,000 letters on a typical typed page of text.
- Mathematics: 2520 is the least common multiple of every integer under 10.
- Military history: 4,200 (Republic) or 5,200 (Empire) was the standard size of a Roman legion
- BioMed: the DNA of the simplest viruses has some 5,000 base pairs.
- Linguistics: Estimates for the linguistic diversity of living human languages or dialects range between 5,000 and 10,000 (SIL Ethnologue in 2009 listed 6,909 known living languages).
- Lexicography: 8,674 unique words in the Hebrew Bible
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