Ki or KI may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

Albums

* ''Ki'' (Devin Townsend Project album), 2009 * ''Ki'' (Kitaro album), 1979

Songs

* "Ki", a song from the album " Minecraft - Volume Beta" by C418

Businesses and organizations

* Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag, a Faroese semi-professional football club *

Communist Initiative The Communist Initiative (german: Kommunistische Initiative) was an orthodox Marxist-Leninist organisation in Austria. It was founded in 2004 as a faction of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ). It left the party in 2005. It was a candidate in ...

, Marxist–Leninist organization in Austria *

Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consist ...

, Swedish university *

Kenyon Institute The Kenyon Institute, previously known as the British School of Archaeology at Jerusalem (BSAJ), is a British overseas research institute supporting humanities and social science studies in Israel and Palestine. It is part of the Council for Briti ...

, a British research institute in Jerusalem *

Adam Air Adam Air (incorporated as PT. Adam SkyConnection Airlines) was a privately owned airline based in West Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. It operated scheduled domestic services to over 20 cities and international services to Penang and Singapore. Its ...

(2002–2008), an Indonesian airline *

Kiwanis International Kiwanis International ( ) is an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, and is found in more than 80 nations and geographic areas. Since 1987, the organizatio ...

, service club

Language

Ki language The Ki language, ''Tuki''Biloa, E. (2013). Syntax of Tuki : A Cartographic Approach. John Benjamins Publishing Company. (Baki, Oki), is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the ...

, a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon *

Ki (kana) き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent and are derived from a simplification of the kanji. The hiragana character き, like さ, is drawn with the lower line either conne ...

, a Japanese syllabic character * Ki (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing * Gikuyu language, ISO 639-1 code:ki

Names

Ki (Korean surname) Ki (기), also romanized as Gi or Kee, is a Korean family name. According to the 2000 census, there were 26,679 people with this surname in South Korea. * Gi Dae-seung (1527–1572), Confucian scholar * Gi Ja-heon (1562–1624), politician, Yeongu ...

, a Korean surname * Ki or Qi (surname) * Ki or

Ji (surname) Ji is the pinyin romanization of a number of distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese. Depending on the character, it may be spelled Jī, Jí, Jǐ, or Jì when tone diacritics are used. In Wade–Giles they ar ...

Places

* Kangaroo Island, Australia *

Ki Monastery Kye Gompa (also spelled Kyi, Ki, Key, or Kee - pronounced like the English word ''key'') is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Gelugpa sect located on top of a hill at an altitude of above sea level, close to the Spiti River, in the Spit ...

, in India *

Kiawah Island Kiawah may refer to * Kiawah Island, South Carolina * the Kiawah people The Kiawah were a constituent group of the Cusabo people,

, South Carolina, United States *

Kings Island Kings Island is a amusement park located northeast of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio, United States. Owned and operated by Cedar Fair, the park first opened in 1972 by the Taft Broadcasting Company. It was part of a larger effort to move and expan ...

, Ohio, United States, amusement park owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company *

Kiribati Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( gil, ibaberikiKiribati),Kiribati
''The Wor ...

.ki .ki is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Kiribati. From the early 1990s to the early 2000s the domain was managed on behalf of the Republic of Kiribati by Connect.com.au, an Australian ISP, with the Pacific Islands Forum ...

, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code top level domain for Kiribati *

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug ( Oji-Cree: ᑭᐦᒋᓇᒣᑯᐦᓯᑊ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ (''Gichi-namegosib ininiwag''); unpointed: ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᑊ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ or ᑭᐦᒋᓇᒣᑯᐦᓯᐱᐎᓂᓂᐗᐠ (''Gichi-namegosibiwininiwag ...

Religion and metaphysics

Ki (goddess) ''Ki'' was the earth goddess in Sumerian religion, chief consort of the sky god An. In some legends Ki and An were brother and sister, being the offspring of Anshar ("Sky Pivot") and Kishar ("Earth Pivot"), earlier personifications of heaven an ...

* '' Qi'', or ''ki'' in Japanese, a vital force according to Chinese culture that forms part of any living thing

Science and technology

Biology and chemistry

Ti (plant) ''Cordyline fruticosa'' is an evergreen flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. The plant is of great cultural importance to the traditional animistic religions of Austronesian people, Austronesian and Papuan people, Papuan peoples of the Pa ...

, also called Kī * ''K''_i, an

equilibrium constant The equilibrium constant of a chemical reaction is the value of its reaction quotient at chemical equilibrium, a state approached by a dynamic chemical system after sufficient time has elapsed at which its composition has no measurable tendency ...

for a chemical reaction or process "i": **

dissociation constant In chemistry, biochemistry, and pharmacology, a dissociation constant (K_D) is a specific type of equilibrium constant that measures the propensity of a larger object to separate (dissociate) reversibly into smaller components, as when a complex fa ...

applicable to process, abbreviated as "i". ** a measure of the binding affinity of a ligand to a biomolecule * Potassium iodide, chemical formula KI *

Gene knockin In biology, the word gene (from , ; "...Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word gene to describe the Mendelian units of heredity..." meaning ''generation'' or ''birth'' or ''gender'') can have several different meanings. The Mendelian gene is a ba ...

or Knock-in, a genetic engineering method *

Ki Database The Ki Database (or Ki DB) is a public domain database of published binding affinities (''K''i) of drugs and chemical compounds for receptors, neurotransmitter transporters, ion channels, and enzymes. The resource is maintained by the University o ...

, a database of biochemical information

Computing

Ki (prefix symbol) A binary prefix is a unit prefix for multiples of units. It is most often used in data processing, data transmission, and digital information, principally in association with the bit and the byte, to indicate multiplication by a power of& ...

, the prefix symbol of the binary unit prefix kibi * Ki, International Electrotechnical Commission standard symbol for number 1024 * K-I algorithm, Kittler and Illingworth iterative algorithm for image segmentation thresholding * Ki (or K_i), the unique cryptographic key of each cell phone's SIM card

Other uses

* Knowledge integration, in epistemology *

Grover C. Winn Grover Cleveland Winn (January 3, 1886 – May 18, 1943) was an American lawyer and politician who served as speaker of the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives. Early life and education Winn was born Grover Cleveland Winn in Wiota, Wisco ...

(1886–1943), nicknamed "Ki", American lawyer and politician {{disambiguation