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K, k    Audio Help   [key] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural K's or Ks, k's or ks.
1.the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
2.any sound represented by the letter K or k, as in bilk, kit, or sick.
3.something having the shape of a K.
4.a written or printed representation of the letter K or k.
5.a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter K or k.
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K
1.Chess. king.
2.Physics. Kelvin.
3.the number 1000: The salary offered is $20K. [Origin: abbr. of kilo-]
4.Music. Köchel listing.
5.kindergarten : a K–12 boarding school.
6.Real Estate. kitchen.
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K
Symbol.
1.the eleventh in order or in a series, or, when I is omitted, the tenth.
2.Chemistry. potassium. [Origin: < NL kalium]
3.Computers.
a.the number 1024 or 210: A binary 32K memory has 32,768 positions.
b.kilobyte.
4.Baseball. strikeout; strikeouts.
5.Physics. kaon.
6.Biochemistry. lysine.
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K
Ecology.
carrying capacity.
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k
Symbol.
1.Mathematics. a vector on the z-axis, having length 1 unit.
2.Boltzmann constant.
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K.
1.kip; kips.
2.Knight.
3.kwacha.
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k.
1.Electricity. capacity.
2.karat.
3.kilogram; kilograms.
4.Chess. king.
5.knight.
6.knot.
7.kopeck.
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k 1 or K    Audio Help   (kā)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. k's or K's also ks or Ks
  1. The 11th letter of the modern English alphabet.
  2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter k.
  3. The 11th in a series.
  4. Something shaped like the letter K.

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k 2  
abbr.   karat

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K 1    Audio Help   (kā)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Slang
One thousand dollars.


[k(ilo)-.]

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K 2  
The symbol for the element potassium.


[From New Latin kalium, potassium; see hypokalemia.]

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K 3  
abbr.  
  1. kaon
  2. kelvin
  3. kilobyte
  4. kindergarten
  5. Games king
  6. Bible Kings
  7. strikeout

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ka·on    Audio Help   (kā'ŏn')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Abbr. K
Any of a subgroup of unstable mesons that consist of an electrically charged form with a mass 966 times that of an electron and a neutral form with a mass 974 times that of an electron, produced as a result of a high-energy particle collision. Also called K-meson. See Table at subatomic particle.


[ka, pronunciation of the letter K + -on1.]

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kar·at also car·at    Audio Help   (kār'ət)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Abbr. k or kt.
A unit of measure for the fineness of gold, equal to 1/24 part. Pure gold is 24 karat; gold that is 50 percent pure is 12 karat.


[Variant of carat.]

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kel·vin    Audio Help   (kěl'vĭn)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Abbr. K
  1. A unit of absolute temperature equal to 1/273.16 of the absolute temperature of the triple point of water. One kelvin degree is equal to one Celsius degree. See Table at measurement.
  2. Kelvin A temperature scale in which zero occurs at absolute zero and each degree equals one kelvin. Water freezes at 273.15 K and boils at 373.15 K.


[After First Baron Kelvin.]

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kil·o·byte    Audio Help   (kĭl'ə-bīt')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Abbr. K or KB
  1. A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 (210) bytes.
  2. One thousand bytes.

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kin·der·gar·ten    Audio Help   (kĭn'dər-gär'tn, -dn)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Abbr. K
A program or class for four-year-old to six-year-old children that serves as an introduction to school.


[German : Kinder, genitive pl. of Kind, child (from Middle High German kint, from Old High German kind; see genə- in Indo-European roots) + Garten, garden (from Middle High German garte, from Old High German garto; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots).]

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king    Audio Help   (kĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A male sovereign.
  2. One that is supreme or preeminent in a particular group, category, or sphere.
  3. King
    1. The perfect, omniscient, omnipotent being; God.
    2. Christianity Jesus.
    3. Abbr. K A playing card bearing the figure of a king, ranking above a queen.
    4. Abbr. K The principal chess piece, which can move one square in any direction and must be protected against checkmate.
    5. A piece in checkers that has been moved to the last row on the opponent's side of the board and been crowned, thus becoming free to move both forward and backward.
  4. Games
    1. Abbr. K A playing card bearing the figure of a king, ranking above a queen.
    2. Abbr. K The principal chess piece, which can move one square in any direction and must be protected against checkmate.
    3. A piece in checkers that has been moved to the last row on the opponent's side of the board and been crowned, thus becoming free to move both forward and backward.
  5. Kings (used with a sing. verb) Abbr. K or Kgs. See Table at Bible.

adj.   Principal or chief, as in size or importance.

tr.v.   kinged, king·ing, kings Games
To make (a piece in checkers) into a king; crown.


[Middle English, from Old English cyning; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]

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po·tas·si·um    Audio Help   (pə-tās'ē-əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Symbol K
A soft, silver-white, highly or explosively reactive metallic element that occurs in nature only in compounds. It is obtained by electrolysis of its common hydroxide and found in, or converted to, a wide variety of salts used especially in fertilizers and soaps. Atomic number 19; atomic weight 39.098; melting point 63.65°C; boiling point 774°C; specific gravity 0.862; valence 1. See Table at element.


[From potash (from which it was first obtained).]

po·tas'sic adj.
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strike·out    Audio Help   (strīk'out')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Baseball Abbr. K or SO
An out made by a batter charged with three strikes and credited to the pitcher who threw the strikes.

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K 
"one thousand dollars," 1970s, from kilo-. As an indication of "strikeout" in baseball scorekeeping, first recorded c.1880, said to be from last letter of struck, since first letter was already being used as abbreviation for sacrifice. The invention of the scorecard symbols is attributed to newspaperman Henry Chadwick. K as a measure of capacity (esp. in computer memory) or number (esp. of salary), meaning "one thousand" is an abbrev. of kilo (q.v.).

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adjective
1. denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units [syn: thousand] 

noun
1. the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: kelvin] 
2. a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite [syn: potassium] 
3. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 
4. a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes [syn: kilobyte] 
5. a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes [syn: kilobyte] 
6. the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet 
7. street names for ketamine 

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K  
  1. Abbreviation of kelvin
  2. The symbol for potassium.

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potassium    Audio Help   (pə-tās'ē-əm)  Pronunciation Key 
Symbol K
A soft, highly reactive, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali group occurring in nature only in compounds. It is essential for the growth of plants and is used especially in fertilizers and soaps. Atomic number 19; atomic weight 39.098; melting point 63.65°C; boiling point 774°C; specific gravity 0.862; valence 1. See Periodic Table.

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K unit
kilo-, a kilobyte. Used both as a spoken word and a written suffix, like meg and gig for megabyte and gigabyte.
See prefix.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-09-29)

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K\, (k[=a]), the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, is nonvocal consonant. The form and sound of the letter K are from the Latin, which used the letter but little except in the early period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Ph[oe]nician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see).

Note: In many words of one syllable k is used after c, as in crack, check, deck, being necessary to exhibit a correct pronunciation in the derivatives, cracked, checked, decked, cracking; since without it, c, before the vowels e and i, would be sounded like s. Formerly, k was added to c in certain words of Latin origin, as in musick, publick, republick; but now it is omitted.

Note: See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 240, 178, 179, 185.
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k
  1. karat
  2. 1000

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K
  1. Cambodia (international vehicle ID)
  2. kaon
  3. Kelvin
  4. kicker
  5. kilobyte
  6. kindergarten
  7. king
  8. Kings
  9. knight
  10. 1,000
  11. 1,024 (the closest number to 1,000 that is a power of 2—used for certain measurements, such as bytes)
  12. potassium
  13. strikeout

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