EK or Ek may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
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Ek Commando Knife Co.
Ek Commando Knife Co. or Ek Knives is an American combat knife brand produced by several different companies since the original founded by John Ek in 1941. In May 2014 the Ek brand was purchased by Ka-Bar which began selling its versions of Ek k ...
, US knife manufacturer
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Eastern Kentucky Railway
The Eastern Kentucky Railway was a railroad in northeastern Kentucky, United States. It served mainly mine traffic, running north from Webbville through Grayson to Riverton (now part of Greenup) on the Ohio River and Chesapeake and Ohio Railwa ...
(with reporting mark EK), now-defunct railway
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Eastman Kodak
The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak ) is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorpor ...
(formerly with NYSE ticker symbol EK), US-based photography company, formerly
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Confederation of Finnish Industries
The Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK, fi, Elinkeinoelämän Keskusliitto, sv, Finlands Näringsliv) is the largest employers' association in Finland. It was formed at the beginning of 2005 when the two employers' associations ''Palvelutyö ...
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Emirates (airline)
Emirates ( ar, طَيَران الإمارات DMG: ''Ṭayarān Al-Imārāt'') is one of two flag carriers of the United Arab Emirates (the other being Etihad). Based in Garhoud, Dubai, the airline is a subsidiary of The Emirates Group, which ...
(IATA airline designator EK)
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European Kindred
The European Kindred (EK) is a prison and street gang that began in the Oregon prison system.
Overview
As of 2006, parole and probation officers report the gang may have around 500 members in the Oregon prison system. EK members have a propens ...
, white-supremacist prison and street gang
People
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Anders Ek (1916–1979), Swedish film actor
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Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek (born 21 February 1983) is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and technologist. He is the co-founder and CEO of music streaming service Spotify.
Early life and education
Ek grew up in the Rågsved district of Stockholm, Sweden. He gra ...
(born 1983), Swedish businessman, creator and CEO of Spotify
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Malin Ek
Malin Ek (born 18 April 1945) is a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 2010. She is the daughter of actor Anders Ek (the 1971 O'Neill Award laureate) and choreographer Birgit Cullberg.
She won the award for Best ...
(born 1945), Swedish actress, daughter of Anders Ek
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Mats Ek (born 1945), dancer, choreographer and stage director
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Phil Ek, American record producer, engineer, and mixer
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Torbjörn Ek
Torbjörn Ek (25 June 1949, Ljusdal - 18 August 2010, Ljusdal) was a Swedish bandy and football player and manager. He was considered one of the country's top bandy players during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Ek was capped 102 times for the Swedis ...
(1949-2010), Swedish bandy & football player and manager
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Eknath
Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi language, Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, knath (1533–1599), commonly known as Sant (religion), Sant Eknath was an Indian Hindu saint, philosopher and poet. He was a devotee of the Hindu deity ...
(ca.533-ca.1599), Ek Nāth, or Eka Nātha, Indian Hindu saint, philosopher, and poet
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Ek Boonsawad
Ek Boonsawad (; born 30 October 1988 in Chonburi (city), Chonburi) is a Thai windsurfer. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's RS:X category.
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(born 1988), Thai windsurfer
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Ek Rangsiroj
Rangsiroj Panpeng or Ek Rangsiroj ( th, รังสิโรจน์ พันธุ์เพ็ง, เอก รังสิโรจน์; born: September 13, 1974 in Amphoe Bang Ban, Ayutthaya Province) is a Thai actor under Channel 7 (Tha ...
(born 1974), Thai actor
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Ix Ek' Naah, Maya queen of the Kaan kingdom in Campeche, Mexico
Places
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Ek Park
Ek Park is a cricket ground in Kitwe, Zambia. The first recorded match on the ground came in 1957 when Northern Rhodesia played the touring Australians.
The ground later held its first first-class match in 1962 when Rhodesia played a touring ...
, cricket ground in Kitwe, Zambia
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East Kilbride
East Kilbride (; gd, Cille Bhrìghde an Ear ) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. It was also designated Scotland's first new town on 6 May 1947. The area lies on a rais ...
, town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Enchanted Kingdom, theme park in the Philippines
Science
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Kinetic Energy
In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion.
It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity. Having gained this energy during its accele ...
, in physics, abbreviated as E
k
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Exakelvin, unit of temperature, abbreviated as EK
Other uses
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Ektara
Ektara ( bn, একতারা, hi, एकतारा, ur, اِک تارا, ne, एकतारे, pa, ਇਕ ਤਾਰਾ, ta, எக்டரா; literally 'one-string', also called actara, iktar, ektar, yaktaro, gopichand, gopichant, ...
, ek tar, or ik tar, "One String," Indian musical instrument
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Mitsubishi eK, Japanese ''kei car''
See also
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Eric Kirkham Cole Limited (EKCO), a British electronics company
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ECC (disambiguation)
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Eck (disambiguation)
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Ekk (disambiguation)
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EC (disambiguation)
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EQ (disambiguation)
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