K is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet.
K may also refer to:
General uses
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K (programming language)
K is a proprietary array processing programming language developed by Arthur Whitney and commercialized by Kx Systems. The language serves as the foundation for kdb+, an in-memory, column-based database, and other related financial products. T ...
, an array processing language developed by Arthur Whitney and commercialized by Kx Systems
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K (cider)
K is a cider manufactured and distributed by C&C Group plc.
In the UK
Advertised under the slogan 'The Mark of Quality', the canned version available in the UK was initially 8.4% ABV. At one time, two bottled versions were available, one at 8.4 ...
, a British draft cider manufactured and distributed by the Gaymer Cider Company of Bath, England
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K band (disambiguation)
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K computer, a Japanese supercomputer
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K-factor (disambiguation), several unrelated terms in physics, engineering, telecommunications and chess
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K (Broadway Brooklyn Local), earlier KK, a defunct service in the New York City Subway discontinued in 1976
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K (Eighth Avenue Local), a defunct service on the New York City Subway, which was known as the AA until 1985
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Vitamin K, a group of vitamins that are needed to promote blood coagulation
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Kappa
Kappa (uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive ; el, κάππα, ''káppa'') is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, has a value o ...
(Κ) (Greek alphabet)
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Ka (Cyrillic) (К) (Cyrillic alphabet)
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Chrysler K platform, 1981–1995 car design used by Chrysler
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Low-K, the dielectric constant in semiconductors, electronics, and physics
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K–12 education, a designation for the sum of primary and secondary education, used mainly in North America
* K, a prefix for
North American call signs used by broadcast stations in the US west of the Mississippi River
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K College, in Tonbridge, Kent
People
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Adem K, Australian musician
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Yasmin K.
Yasmin Knoch (born 27 September 1976), known professionally as Yasmin K. and also using the name Y-ass, is a German pop singer. She is best known for appearing in 2001 on the second season of ''Popstars''.
Life and career
Born in Soufrière, ...
, German singer
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K (composer), Indian film composer
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K (singer) (born 1983), Korean singer who works in Japan as a J-pop singer
* K, deceased guitarist of Japanese visual kei band
Moi Dix Mois
In fiction and literature
Books
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''K'' (Minogue and Baker book), a photographic book by Kylie Minogue and William Baker
* ''K'', a 2011 novel by
Bernardo Kucinski, Brazilian journalist and political scientist
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''K.'' (novel), a 1915 novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart
* ''
"K" Is for Killer
''"K" Is for Killer'' is the 11th novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel was a ''New York Times'' bestseller with a reported 600,000-copy ...
'', the eleventh novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 1994
Films and TV
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''K'' (2002 film), directed by Shoja Azari, an Iranian American
* ''K'', a 1997 French film directed by
Alexandre Arcady
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''K'' (TV series), a Japanese anime
*K, the production code for the 1964 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''
The Dalek Invasion of Earth''
Characters
* K, the protagonist of Franz Kafka's 1926 novel ''
The Castle''
* K, a character in the manga and anime ''
''Gravitation''''
* K, the main character in the novel by the same name by
Bernardo Kucinski
* K, the main character in the TV series ''Robotto Keiji'' (''
Robot Detective'')
* K, Todd and Riley's adoptive superspy mother on the Disney program ''
The Replacements''
* K, the protagonist played by John Abraham in ''
No Smoking''
* K, a character in Natsume Soseki's novel ''
Kokoro''
* K, a character in the visual novel
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
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K′, also known as "K Dash" or "K Prime", a ''King of Fighters'' character
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Agent K, the character played by Tommy Lee Jones in ''Men in Black'', ''Men in Black II'', and ''Men in Black 3''
* Joseph K., the protagonist of Kafka's 1925 novel, ''
The Trial''
* K, the main character in the 2017 film ''
Blade Runner 2049
''Blade Runner 2049'' is a 2017 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green. A sequel to the 1982 film ''Blade Runner'', the film stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, w ...
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* Dr. K, the character in ''
Power Rangers RPM''
Other
* K, a constructed language invented by
Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix (born 17 February 1944) is an Australian novelist, essayist and journalist.
Biography
Robert Dessaix was born in Sydney and adopted at an early age by Tom and Jean Jones, after which he was known as Robert Jones. Tom Jones, a ...
In mathematics
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and
, the
complete and
complete bipartite graph
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K-theory, a branch of topology and algebra
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, in blackboard bold, is a commonly used symbol for a
field, as an abbreviation of the German ''Körper''.
* , the
complete elliptic integral of the first kind
In integral calculus, an elliptic integral is one of a number of related functions defined as the value of certain integrals, which were first studied by Giulio Fagnano and Leonhard Euler (). Their name originates from their originally arising in ...
In music
* K., abbreviation for
Ralph Kirkpatrick’s chronological catalogue of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas
* K., abbreviation for the
Köchel catalogue, chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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K Records, independent record company based in Olympia, Washington
Albums
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''K'' (album), 1996 album by Kula Shaker
Songs
*"K", a song by
Cul de Sac (band)
* K, a song by the Japanese rock band
Bump of Chicken
is a Japanese alternative rock group from Sakura, Chiba, Japan. The band members are Motoo Fujiwara (Vocalist, vocals, Rhythm guitar, rhythm), Hiroaki Masukawa (guitar), Yoshifumi Naoi (Bass guitar, bass) and Hideo Masu (Drum kit, drums). Since ...
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"K" (The Tutts song), 2006 song by The Tutts
*"K", a song by
The Hold Steady
*"K.", a song from
''Cigarettes After Sex'' (album) by Cigarettes After Sex
In politics
* K, the , the
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party ( fi, Suomen Keskusta , ''Kesk''; sv, Centern i Finland), officially the Centre Party of Finland, is an agrarian political party in Finland.
Ideologically, the Centre Party is positioned in the centre on the political spect ...
* K, , the
Communist Party (Sweden)
* K, the politics and followers of former President of Argentina
Néstor Kirchner (1950-2010)
As a symbol or abbreviation
* k, from Latin kilo, for
1000 (number)
1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. In most English-speaking countries, it can be written with or without a comma or sometimes a period separating the thousands digit: 1,000.
A group of one thousand th ...
* K,
ketamine, a street abbreviation for a recreational drug
* K,
Kyocera' s mobile phones in Japan
* K, a
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 ...
in baseball scorekeeping
* K, a contract in
legal shorthand
* k, a
voiceless velar plosive in the International Phonetic Alphabet
* K, key color (i.e., black) in the
CMYK color model, especially for printing
* k, abbreviation of
okay, commonly used in instant messaging, or in S.M.S. messages
* K, the
construction point of a ski jumping hill
* k, a shorthand for a
knighthood in the British honours system
* K, the ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange for the
Kellogg Company
*K, abbreviation of gridiron football position
Kicker (also known as placekicker)
Unit
* k, symbol of the ''
kilo-'' prefix in the SI and other systems of unit that denotes multiples of 1000
* K,
kelvin, the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature
* K (upper case), informal abbreviation for
kibibyte or 1024 bytes
* k (lower case), informal abbreviation for
kilobyte or 1000 bytes
* k,
kilobit (correctly kbit)
* k or K, abbreviation for
kilometre
The kilometre ( SI symbol: km; or ), spelt kilometer in American English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for ). It is now the measurement unit used for ex ...
(SI symbol: km) (especially in measured-distance sports, e.g. "10K run")
* k or K, abbreviation for
kilohm, a measure of resistance in electronics
In the natural sciences
* K, one-letter designation for the amino acid
lysine
Lysine (symbol Lys or K) is an α-amino acid that is a precursor to many proteins. It contains an α-amino group (which is in the protonated form under biological conditions), an α-carboxylic acid group (which is in the deprotonated −C ...
* K, for
carrying capacity
The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available. The carrying capacity is defined as t ...
of an environment
* K
carat (purity)
The fineness of a precious metal object (coin, bar, jewelry, etc.) represents the weight of ''fine metal'' therein, in proportion to the total weight which includes alloying base metals and any impurities. Alloy metals are added to increase hardn ...
, measurement applied to gold
* K, the
Cretaceous geological period
In the physical sciences
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Potassium, symbol K, a chemical element
* ''k'',
angular wavenumber of a wave
* k,
wavevector of a wave
* K, the symbol that represents a
kaon in particle physics
* ''k'', the
spring constant in Hooke's law relating deformation (strain) and force applied (stress) to a material body
* ''k'' or ''k'', the
Boltzmann constant, the physical constant relating energy and temperature at the particle level
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or ''K'',
relative static permittivity (dielectric constant)
* ''k''
e, the
Coulomb constant
The Coulomb constant, the electric force constant, or the electrostatic constant (denoted , or ) is a proportionality constant in electrostatics equations. In SI base units it is equal to .Derived from ''k''e = 1/(4''πε''0) – It was named ...
* ''K'',
equilibrium constant
* ''k'',
thermal conductivity
* ''k'', the
Gaussian gravitational constant
* ''k'', often used for some
proportionality constant
Military and guns
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Kilo, the military time zone code for UTC+10:00
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Operation K, a Japanese World War II naval operation
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The K Project
The Soviet Union's K project nuclear test series was a group of five nuclear tests conducted in 1961–1962. These tests followed the 1961 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1962 Soviet nuclear tests series.
The K project nuclear te ...
, a series of five nuclear tests by the Soviet Union
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Swedish K, a submachine gun
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AK-47, an assault rifle
Transportation
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K (Los Angeles Railway)
K was a streetcar line in Los Angeles, California. It was operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1913 to 1941.
History
The East Jefferson and 38th Street line opened on February 1, 1913. It ran from Main Street and Jefferson Avenue to East 38t ...
, defunct streetcar line in Los Angeles, California
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K (Broadway Brooklyn Local), earlier KK, discontinued in 1976
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K (Eighth Avenue Local), a defunct train service on the New York City Subway, which was known as the AA until 1985
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K Ingleside (San Francisco Muni)
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K Line (Los Angeles Metro)
See also
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K class (disambiguation) K class or Class K may refer to:
Locomotives
* LB&SCR K class (1913), England
* SECR K and SR K1 classes (1914), England
* NZR K class (1877), New Zealand
* NZR K class (1932), New Zealand
* Tasmanian Government Railways K class, Tasmania
* Vi ...
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Circle-k (disambiguation)
Circle K Stores, Inc. is a Canadian chain of convenience stores headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by the multinational company Couche-Tard. Founded in 1951 in El Paso, Texas, the company filed for bankruptcy protection in 1 ...
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