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 through ...
, Peninsula Airways, Anchorage, Alaska, US (IATA airline code)
Language
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Kashmiri language, a Dardic language of Kashmir (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "ks")
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Kernowek Standard, 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 commonly ...
, 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 (US postal abbreviation KS)
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South Kalimantan
South Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Selatan) is a Provinces of Indonesia, 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 wa ...
, Indonesia (ISO 3166-2 province code)
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Krems an der Donau, 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 dist ...
, 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
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare, autosomal recessive genetic ciliopathy, that causes defects in the action of cilia lining the upper and lower respiratory tract, sinuses, Eustachian tube, middle ear, Fallopian tube, and flagella of ...
, 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 w ...
, 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, caused by a chromosome aneuploidy
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Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, a goodness-of-fit test for probability distributions
Other uses
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Kammersänger, 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 ...
, 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, an obsolete UK legal post
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Kirk/Spock or K/S, slash fiction
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Kashmiri Wikipedia
The Kashmiri Wikipedia ( ks, کٲشُر وِکیٖپیٖڈیا) is the Kashmiri language edition of Wikipedia. It was launched in 2004. On 29 November 2021 it crossed 1000 articles mark. As of , it has articles and registered users and it is ...
, 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 deno ...
s, in baseball
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Contracts, 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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