KS and variants may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

* , a German postwar commando frogman force * , a Norwegian type of company * Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities *

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

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 make ...

, a Dardic language of Kashmir (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "ks") *

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 *

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

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...

(US postal abbreviation KS) *

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) * Krems an der Donau, Austria (vehicle plate code) *

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) * Khatumo State, an unrecognised proto-state in northern Somalia *

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) *

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

Kaposi's sarcoma Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a type of cancer that can form masses in the skin, in lymph nodes, in the mouth, or in other organs. The skin lesions are usually painless, purple and may be flat or raised. Lesions can occur singly, multiply in a limite ...

, a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) *

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 * Kallmann syndrome, a genetic disorder preventing the start or completion of puberty *

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 * Kernel streaming, a method of processing streamed data *

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 * Kilosecond (ks), 1000 seconds (16 minutes, 40 seconds) *

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 subt ...

, caused by a chromosome aneuploidy *

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 ...

, a goodness-of-fit test for probability distributions

Other uses

* Kammersänger, a German honorary title for a distinguished opera singer * Kaplan–Sheinwold, a contract bridge bidding system *

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 * Kill stealing, a practice in online games * King's Scholar, at a UK public school *

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 writ ...

, an obsolete UK legal post * Kirk/Spock or K/S, slash fiction *

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 *

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 *

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 tran ...

s, in legal shorthand * Slovak koruna, the currency of Slovakia 1993–2008 and of the 1939–1945 Slovak State

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Language

Places

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