You can use any of the standard SI prefixes with the standard unit of length, the meter. However, it's more common to use non-SI units: astronomical units, light-years, and parsecs for large distances, especially in astronomy. The largest of these is the parsec; but you can also use metric prefixes with that, e.g., kiloparsec, or megaparsec.
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Chronometry is a physical term and is the measurement of time.
Helps us to quantify the world around us.
Kilometer is the longest 1 kilometer is 1 million millimeter
Because a radian is a far more versatile unit of measurement, especially in advanced mathematics.
There are two main systems of measurements in mathematics, metric and US standard. Metric measurements are terms like centimeters, and US standard includes inches and feet.