KS and variants may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
* , a German postwar commando frogman force
* , a Norwegian type of company
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Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities
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PenAir
Peninsula Airways, operated as PenAir, was a U.S.-based regional airline headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska. It was Alaska's second-largest commuter airline operating scheduled passenger service, as well as charter and medevac services throug ...
, Peninsula Airways, Anchorage, Alaska, US (IATA airline code)
Language
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Kashmiri language
Kashmiri () or Koshur (, /kəːʃur/) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 7 million Kashmiris of the Kashmir region, primarily in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
In 2020, the Parliament of India passed a bill to mak ...
, a Dardic language of Kashmir (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "ks")
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Kernowek Standard
Kernowek Standard (KS, ''Standard Cornish''), its initial version spelt Kernowak Standard, is a variety of the spelling of revived Cornish. It has two specifications, the first of which was published as a draft proposal in March 2007, and the s ...
, an orthography for Revived Cornish
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Kiasu
Kiasu () is a Hokkien word that denotes a "competitive” attitude" that arises from fear of missing out OR fear of being left out.
Etymology and usage
Kiasu comes from the vernacular Chinese phrase , meaning 'fear of losing’. It is common ...
, Hokkien (a Chinese spoken variant) word for 'extreme fear of losing' (怕输)
* Sound of the Latin letter
X in many languages
Places
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Kansas
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...
(US postal abbreviation KS)
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South Kalimantan
South Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Selatan) is a province of Indonesia. It is the smallest province in Kalimantan, the Indonesian territory of Borneo. The provincial capital was Banjarmasin until 15 February 2022 when it was legally moved to B ...
, Indonesia (ISO 3166-2 province code)
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Krems an der Donau
Krems an der Donau () is a town of 23,992 inhabitants in Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria. It is the fifth-largest city of Lower Austria and is approximately west of Vienna. Krems is a city with its own statute (or ''Statutarst ...
, Austria (vehicle plate code)
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Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
, Germany (vehicle plate code)
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Khatumo State, an unrecognised proto-state in northern Somalia
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Northampton
Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England ...
, Great Britain (vehicle plate code)
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Košice-okolie District
Košice–okolie District (''okres Košice–okolie''; hu, Kassa-vidéki járás) is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. It surrounds the city of Košice, which serves as the district seat although it does not belong to the d ...
, Slovakia (vehicle plate code)
Science, technology, and mathematics
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Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)
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Kartagener syndrome, a genetic disorder
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Kallmann syndrome, a genetic disorder preventing the start or completion of puberty
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Keratan sulfate
Keratan sulfate (KS), also called keratosulfate, is any of several sulfated glycosaminoglycans (structural carbohydrates) that have been found especially in the cornea, cartilage, and bone. It is also synthesized in the central nervous system whe ...
, any of several sulfated glycosaminoglycans
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Kernel streaming, a method of processing streamed data
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Ketoacyl synthase Ketoacyl synthases (KSs) catalyze the condensation reaction of acyl-CoA or acyl-acyl ACP with malonyl-CoA to form 3-ketoacyl-CoA or with malonyl-ACP to form 3-ketoacyl-ACP. This reaction is a key step in the fatty acid synthesis cycle, as the result ...
, a domain of polyketide synthases with a thiol group on a cysteine side-chain
* kilosample (kS), 1000 samples of a
digitized signal
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Kilosecond (ks), 1000 seconds (16 minutes, 40 seconds)
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Klinefelter's Syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome (KS), also known as 47,XXY, is an aneuploid genetic condition where a male has an additional copy of the X chromosome. The primary features are infertility and small, poorly functioning testicles. Usually, symptoms are su ...
, caused by a chromosome aneuploidy
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Kolmogorov–Smirnov test
In statistics, the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test (K–S test or KS test) is a nonparametric test of the equality of continuous (or discontinuous, see Section 2.2), one-dimensional probability distributions that can be used to compare a sample with ...
, a goodness-of-fit test for probability distributions
Other uses
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Kammersänger
Kammersänger (male) or Kammersängerin (female), abbreviated Ks. or KS, is a German honorific title for distinguished singers of opera and classical music. It literally means "chamber singer". Historically, the title was bestowed by princes or ...
, a German honorary title for a distinguished opera singer
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Kaplan–Sheinwold, a contract bridge bidding system
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Key Stage
A key stage is a stage of the state education system in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar setting the educational knowledge expected of students at various ages. The term is also used in some other ...
, a term used in the British education system
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Kill stealing, a practice in online games
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King's Scholar, at a UK public school
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King's Serjeant
A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law (''servientes ad legem''), or Sergeant-Counter, was centuries old; there are wr ...
, an obsolete UK legal post
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Kirk/Spock or K/S, slash fiction
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Kashmiri Wikipedia, Wikipedia in Kashmiri-language
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Strikeout
In baseball or softball, a strikeout (or strike-out) occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during a time at bat. It usually means that the batter is out. A strikeout is a statistic recorded for both pitchers and batters, and is den ...
s, in baseball
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Contract
A contract is a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties that creates, defines, and governs mutual rights and obligations between them. A contract typically involves the transfer of goods, services, money, or a promise to tr ...
s, in legal shorthand
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Slovak koruna, the currency of Slovakia 1993–2008 and of the 1939–1945 Slovak State
See also
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K+S, a German chemical company
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