Koch (surname) Koch ( , , ) is a German surname that means "cook" or "chef".
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* Adam Koch (born 1988), American professional basketball player
* Adolf Koch (1896–1970), German school teacher and leader of the Freikörperkultur
* Alan Koch (baseball) (bor ...
, people with this surname
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Koch dynasty
Koch may refer to:
People
* Koch (surname), people with this surname
* Koch dynasty, a dynasty in Assam and Bengal, north east India
* Koch family
* Koch people (or Koche), an ethnic group originally from the ancient Koch kingdom in north east ...
, a dynasty in Assam and Bengal, north east India
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Koch family
The Koch family ( ) is an American family engaged in business, best known for their political activities and their control of Koch Industries, the 2nd largest privately owned company in the United States (with 2019 revenues of $115 billion). ...
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Koch people
The Koch are a small trans-border ethnic group of Assam and Meghalaya in India and northern Bangladesh. The group consists of nine matrilineal and strictly exogamous clans, with some of them preserving a hitherto sparsely documented Boro-Garo ...
(or Koche), an ethnic group originally from the ancient Koch kingdom in north east India
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Koch language
Koch is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Koch people of Republic of India and Koch people in Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.
Geographical distribution
Koch is spoken in:
*Assam:
**Baksa district - Hodi or Koch Mandai
**Darrang district - ...
, a language spoken in India and Bangladesh
* Koch, an alternate name of the
Rabha tribe
The Rabha are a Tibeto-Burman community to the Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya and West Bengal. They primarily inhabit the plains of Lower Assam and the Dooars, while some are found in the Garo Hills. Most of the Rabhas of Dooars refer to thems ...
in northeast India and surrounding countries
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Koch Kingdom
The Kamata Kingdom (pron: ˈkʌmətɑ) emerged in western Kamarupa probably when Sandhya, a ruler of Kamarupanagara, moved his capital west to Kamatapur sometime after 1257 CE. Since it originated in the old seat of the Kamarupa kingdom, ...
Koch, Iran (disambiguation) Kach or Koch or Kech ( fa, كچ) in Iran may refer to:
* Kach, Hamadan
* Kach, Khuzestan
* Koch, Chabahar, Sistan and Baluchestan Province
* Koch, Dashtiari, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province
* Koch-e Garg, Chabahar County, Sistan and ...
, places in Iran
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Koch, Łódź Voivodeship
Koch is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rusiec, within Bełchatów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Rusiec, Łódź Voivodeship, Rusiec, west of Bełchatów, and south-west o ...
, a village in central Poland
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Koch, Mississippi
Koch is an unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; t ...
, United States
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Koch, South Sudan
Koch is a community in Unity State, South Sudan, headquarters of Koch County.
The community lies in Jagei Nuer territory.
It is within the Block 5A oil concession. Between 1998 and 2003 the community was attacked many times by government-supporte ...
, a village in Unity State, South Sudan
* Koch Bihar, a princely state in north east India
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Koch County
Koch County is an administrative division of Unity State, South Sudan
South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by ...
, an administrative area in Unity State, South Sudan
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Koch Kingdom
The Kamata Kingdom (pron: ˈkʌmətɑ) emerged in western Kamarupa probably when Sandhya, a ruler of Kamarupanagara, moved his capital west to Kamatapur sometime after 1257 CE. Since it originated in the old seat of the Kamarupa kingdom, ...
, Assam, 13th-16th centuries
Businesses
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Koch Entertainment
Koch Entertainment was an American record label and a distributor of film, television, and music. It was purchased by Canadian entertainment company Entertainment One in 2005.
History First years
The company began in 1975 as part of Koch Inter ...
LP, now known as E1 Entertainment
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Koch Records
MNRK Music Group (pronounced "monarch", formerly known as Koch Records and eOne Music) is a New York City-based independent record label and music management company. It was formed in 2009 from the music assets of Koch Entertainment, which had ...
, former name of Entertainment One Music
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Koch Industries
Koch Industries, Inc. ( ) is an American privately held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. Its subsidiaries are involved in th ...
, petroleum, chemicals, energy, and commodities trading
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Koch Media
Plaion (formerly Koch Media) is a German-Austrian media company headquartered in Höfen, Tyrol, Austria, with an operating subsidiary based in Planegg, Germany. The company was founded in 1994 by Franz Koch and Klemens Kundratitz. The company ...
, a media distribution company from Germany
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Koch Foods
Koch Foods is a food processor and distributor in Park Ridge, Illinois that is listed by ''Forbes'' magazine as number 125 on the list of the largest private companies in the US. As of October 2014, the company had a revenue of $3 billion, and ...
Poultry processor and distributor.
Other uses
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Koch (boat)
The koch ( rus, коч, p=ˈkotɕ, a=Ru-коч.ogg) was a special type of small one or two mast wooden sailing ships designed and used in Russia for transpolar voyages in ice conditions of the Arctic seas, popular among the Pomors.
Because o ...
, a type of Arctic boat
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Koch method
Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to Character encoding, encode Written language, text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse cod ...
of learning Morse Code
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Koch snowflake
The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curv ...
or star, and Koch curve
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Koch's triangle
Koch's triangle, named after the German pathologist Walter Koch, is an anatomical area located in the superficial paraseptal endocardium of the right atrium, which its boundaries are the coronary sinus orifice, tendon of Todaro, and septal leaf ...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (M. tb) is a species of pathogenic bacteria in the family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative agent of tuberculosis. First discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, ''M. tuberculosis'' has an unusual, waxy coating on its c ...
'' (Koch's bacillus), a bacterial species that causes tuberculosis
* ''Koch'' (film), a 2012 documentary film about New York City mayor Ed Koch
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Heckler & Koch
Heckler & Koch GmbH (HK; ) is a German defense manufacturing company that manufactures handguns, rifles, submachine guns, and grenade launchers. The company is located in Oberndorf am Neckar in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, and also ...
, maker of firearms
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Koch Institute (disambiguation) The Koch Institute refers to several different institutions:
* David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a cancer research institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Charles Koch Institute, a libertarian policy think tank base ...
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Kotch
''Kotch'' is a 1971 American comedy-drama film directed by Jack Lemmon and starring Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, and Ellen Geer.
Adapted by John Paxton from Katharine Topkins' 1965 novel of the same name, the ...
'', a 1971 film starring Walter Matthau
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Coke (disambiguation)
Coke usually refers to:
* Coca-Cola, a brand of soft drink
**The Coca-Cola Company
* Slang term for cocaine, a psychoactive substance and illicit drug
Substances Soft drinks
*Cola, any soft drink similar to Coca-Cola
* Generic name for a soft dr ...