IK or Ik may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

IK Investment Partners IK Partners (“IK”) is a European private equity firm focused on investments in the Benelux, DACH, France, Nordics and the UK. The firm is led Christopher Masek who has been the CEO since 2015. History IK Partners was founded under the nam ...

, a European private equity firm *

Imair Airlines Imair Airlines was an airline based in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was a private airline operating international scheduled and charter passenger services from 1995 until its ceased operations on 23 November 2009. Its main base was Heydar Aliyev Interna ...

(IATA code IK) *

Iparretarrak Iparretarrak (meaning "''the Northerners''" in Basque), commonly known as IK, was a Basque nationalist paramilitary organization operating in the Northern Basque Country, founded in 1973 by Philippe Bidart and other Basque activists. To date, 1982 ...

, a Basque nationalist organization

Languages

* Ik language (ISO 639 alpha-3 ikx), spoken by the Ik people of Uganda * Inupiaq language (ISO 639 alpha-2), a group of dialects of the Inuit language, spoken in Alaska

Places

Ik (river) The Ik (; tt-Cyrl, Ык, ''Iq''; , ''Iq'') is a river in Russia that flows north to the Kama. It flows through the Republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan and through Orenburg Oblast. The left tributaries are Mellya, Menzelya, Dymka, and th ...

, a tributary of the Kama in Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, Russia * Ik (Berd), a tributary of the Berd in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia *

Bolshoy Ik The Bolshoy Ik (russian: Большой Ик, literally ''Greater Ik''; ba, Оло Ыйыҡ, ''Olo Iyıq'') is a tributary of the Sakmara, which flows south from the southern end of the Ural Mountains in Bashkortostan and Orenburg Oblast, Russ ...

, a tributary of the Sakmara in Bashkortostan and Orenburg Oblast, Russia *

Ilm-Kreis Ilm-Kreis is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the city of Erfurt, the districts of Weimarer Land, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt and Hildburghausen, the city of Suhl, and the districts of Schmalkalden-Meinin ...

, a region in Germany

Science and technology

IK (gene) Protein Red is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''IK'' gene. The protein encoded by this gene was identified by its RED repeat, a stretch of repeated arginine, glutamic acid and aspartic acid residues. The protein localizes to discrete ...

, a protein-encoding gene *

IK code IK or Ik may refer to: Businesses and organizations * IK Investment Partners, a European private equity firm * Imair Airlines (IATA code IK) * Iparretarrak, a Basque nationalist organization Languages * Ik language (ISO 639 alpha-3 ikx), spok ...

, a classification of resistance to mechanical impacts * ''Internationale Kerze'' (German for "international candle"), an old photometric unit to measure

luminous intensity In photometry, luminous intensity is a measure of the wavelength-weighted power emitted by a light source in a particular direction per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human e ...

Inverse kinematics In computer animation and robotics, inverse kinematics is the mathematical process of calculating the variable joint parameters needed to place the end of a kinematic chain, such as a robot manipulator or animation character's skeleton, in a ...

, a branch of mechanics

Other uses

Ik Onkar , also spelled (Gurmukhi: or ; ); literally, "There is only one God or One creator or one Om-maker") is a phrase in Sikhism that denotes the one supreme reality. It is a central tenet of Sikh religious philosophy. are the first words of the M ...

, a symbol used in the Sikh religion *

Ik people The Ik people (sometimes called Teuso although that term is derogatory) are an ethnic group in northeastern Uganda near the border with Kenya. The group is unarmed and habitually peaceful, numbering approximately 13,939 people. They have experie ...

of Uganda * ''

The Ik ''The Ik'' is a 1975 play by Colin Higgins and Denis Cannan adapted from the 1972 book by Colin Turnbull about the Ik people titled ''The Mountain People''. It was devised with director Peter Brook Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 ...

'', a 1975 play by Colin Higgins and Denis Cannan *

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confiden ...

, Pakistani politician and former cricketer * ''

Index Kewensis The 1893 ''Index Kewensis'' (IK), maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is a publication that aims to register all botanical names for seed plants at the rank of species and genera. It later came to include names of taxonomic families ...

'', a publication maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew * Indigenous knowledge,

traditional knowledge Traditional knowledge (TK), indigenous knowledge (IK) and local knowledge generally refer to knowledge systems embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous, or local communities. According to the World Intellectual Property Or ...

held by indigenous peoples * ''

International Karate ''International Karate'' is a fighting game developed and published by System 3 for the ZX Spectrum in 1985 and ported to various home computers over the following years. In the United States it was published by Epyx in 1986 as ''World Karate C ...

'', a computer game {{disambiguation