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 "

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Businesses and organizations

* Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag, a Faroese semi-professional football club * Communist Initiative, 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 consis ...

, 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 Brit ...

, a British research institute in Jerusalem * Adam Air (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), a Japanese syllabic character * Ki (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing *

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 surroundin ...

, ISO 639-1 code:ki

Names

* Ki (Korean surname), 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 Chinese characters, characters in Chinese. Depending on the character, it may be spelled Jī, Jí, Jǐ, or Jì when Tone (linguistics), tone diacr ...

Places

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, southw ...

, 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, 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 exp ...

, 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 heave ...

* '' 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 and Papuan peoples of the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Isl ...

, 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 ...

applicable to process, abbreviated as "i". ** a measure of the binding affinity of a ligand to a biomolecule *

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 us ...

, chemical formula KI * Gene knockin 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 Enzymes () are proteins that act as ...

, a database of biochemical information

Computing

* 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

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Other uses

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 represe ...

, 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