IK or Ik may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
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IK Investment Partners
IK Partners (“IK”) is a European private equity firm focused on investments in the Benelux, DACH, France, Nordics and the UK. The firm is led Christopher Masek who has been the CEO since 2015.
History
IK Partners was founded under the nam ...
, a European private equity firm
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Imair Airlines (IATA code IK)
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Iparretarrak, a Basque nationalist organization
Languages
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Ik language (ISO 639 alpha-3 ikx), spoken by the Ik people of Uganda
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Inupiaq language (ISO 639 alpha-2), a group of dialects of the Inuit language, spoken in Alaska
Places
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Ik (river), a tributary of the Kama in Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, Russia
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Ik (Berd), a tributary of the Berd in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
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Bolshoy Ik
The Bolshoy Ik (russian: Большой Ик, literally ''Greater Ik''; ba, Оло Ыйыҡ, ''Olo Iyıq'') is a tributary of the Sakmara, which flows south from the southern end of the Ural Mountains in Bashkortostan and Orenburg Oblast, Russ ...
, a tributary of the Sakmara in Bashkortostan and Orenburg Oblast, Russia
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Ilm-Kreis, a region in Germany
Science and technology
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IK (gene), a protein-encoding gene
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IK code, a classification of resistance to mechanical impacts
* ''Internationale Kerze'' (German for "international candle"), an old photometric unit to measure
luminous intensity
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Inverse kinematics
In computer animation and robotics, inverse kinematics is the mathematical process of calculating the variable joint parameters needed to place the end of a kinematic chain, such as a robot manipulator or animation character's skeleton, in a g ...
, a branch of mechanics
Other uses
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Ik Onkar, a symbol used in the Sikh religion
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Ik people of Uganda
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The Ik'', a 1975 play by Colin Higgins and Denis Cannan
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Imran Khan, Pakistani politician and former cricketer
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Index Kewensis'', a publication maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
* Indigenous knowledge,
traditional knowledge held by indigenous peoples
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International Karate
''International Karate'' is a fighting game developed and published by System 3 for the ZX Spectrum in 1985 and ported to various home computers over the following years. In the United States it was published by Epyx in 1986 as ''World Karate ...
'', a computer game
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