Ki or KI may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
Albums
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''Ki'' (Devin Townsend Project album), 2009
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''Ki'' (Kitaro album), 1979
Songs
* "Ki", a song from the album "
Minecraft - Volume Beta" by
C418
Daniel Rosenfeld (born 9 May 1989), better known by his stage/online name C418 (pronounced "see four eighteen"), is a German musician, producer and sound engineer, best known as the composer and sound designer for the sandbox video game ''Minec ...
Businesses and organizations
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Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag
Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag ( Faroese for ''Sports Club of Klaksvík''), commonly known as KÍ, is a Faroese professional football club based in Klaksvík. The club was founded in 1904 and is one of the most successful Faroese football clubs, h ...
, a Faroese semi-professional football club
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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
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Karolinska Institute
The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led Medical school, medical university in Solna Municipality, Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. ...
, Swedish university
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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 Brit ...
, a British research institute in Jerusalem
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Adam Air (2002–2008), an Indonesian airline
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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 organizati ...
, service club
Language
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Ki language, a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon
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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 conn ...
, a Japanese syllabic character
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Ki (cuneiform)
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
* Klak ...
, a sign in cuneiform writing
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Gikuyu language
Kikuyu or Gikuyu ( ki, Gĩkũyũ, link=no ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Gĩkũyũ (''Agĩkũyũ'') of Kenya. Kikuyu is mainly spoken in the area between Nyeri and Nairobi. The Kikuyu people usually identify their lands by the surrounding ...
, ISO 639-1 code:ki
Names
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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)
Qi is the romanization of several Chinese family names, including 祁 (Qí), 齊/齐 (Qí), 戚 (Qī), 乞 (Qí), 奇 (Qí), 亓 (Qí) and 綦 (Qí).
Qí (祁) surname
Qi (祁, also commonly written as Chi, and Kei in Cantonese) is a Chinese sur ...
* 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 ...
Places
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Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...
, Australia
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Ki Monastery, in India
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Kiawah Island, South Carolina, United States
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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 expa ...
, Ohio, United States, amusement park owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company
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Kiribati
Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( gil, ibaberikiKiribati),[Kiribati]
''The Wor ...
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.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
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Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug ( Oji-Cree: ᑭᐦᒋᓇᒣᑯᐦᓯᑊ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ (''Gichi-namegosib ininiwag''); unpointed: ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᑊ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ or ᑭᐦᒋᓇᒣᑯᐦᓯᐱᐎᓂᓂᐗᐠ (''Gichi-namegosibiwininiwag ...
Religion and metaphysics
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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 ...
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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
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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":
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dissociation constant applicable to process, abbreviated as "i".
** a measure of the
binding affinity of a ligand to a biomolecule
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Potassium iodide
Potassium iodide is a chemical compound, medication, and dietary supplement. It is a medication used for treating hyperthyroidism, in radiation emergencies, and for protecting the thyroid gland when certain types of radiopharmaceuticals are u ...
, chemical formula KI
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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
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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
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Ki (prefix symbol), 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
A typical SIM card (mini-SIM with micro-SIM cutout)
A GSM mobile phone
file:Simkarte NFC SecureElement.jpg, T-Mobile nano-SIM card with NFC capabilities in the SIM tray of an iPhone 6s
file:Tf sim both sides.png, A TracFone Wireless SIM card ha ...
Other uses
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Knowledge integration Knowledge integration is the process of synthesizing multiple knowledge models (or representations) into a common model (representation).
Compared to information integration, which involves merging information having different schemas and represen ...
, in epistemology
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Grover C. Winn (1886–1943), nicknamed "Ki", American lawyer and politician
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