K (disambiguation)

K is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet.

K may also refer to:

General uses

• K (programming language), an array processing language developed by Arthur Whitney and commercialized by Kx Systems
• K (cider), a British draft cider manufactured and distributed by the Gaymer Cider Company of Bath, England
• K band, radio frequency from 12 to 93 GHz
• K computer, a Japanese supercomputer
• K-factor, several unrelated terms in physics, engineering, telecommunications and chess
• K (Broadway Brooklyn Local), earlier KK, discontinued in 1976
• K (Eighth Avenue Local), a defunct line on the New York City Subway, which was known as the AA until 1985
• Vitamin K, a group of vitamins that are needed to promote blood coagulation
• Kappa (Κ) (Greek alphabet)
• Ka (Cyrillic) (К) (Cyrillic alphabet)
• Chrysler K platform, 1981-1995 car design used by Chrysler
• Low-K, the dielectric constant in semiconductors, electronics, and physics
• Operation K, a Japanese World War II naval operation
• The K Project, a series of five nuclear tests by the Soviet Union
• K-theory, a topic in branches of topology and algebra
• K–12 education, a designation for the sum of primary and secondary education, used mainly in North America
• K, a prefix for North American call signs used by broadcast stations in the US west of the Mississippi River
• K College, in Tonbridge, Kent

People

• Adem K, Australian musician
• Yasmin K., German singer

In fiction and literature

• K′, also known as "K Dash" or "K Prime", a King of Fighters character
• K, the title of a 1915 novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart
• K, the protagonist of Franz Kafka's 1926 novel The Castle
• K, a character in the manga and anime Gravitation (manga)
• K, the main character in the TV series Robotto Keiji (Robot Detective)
• K, Todd and Riley's adoptive superspy mother on the Disney program The Replacements (TV series)
• K, the character played by Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black (film) and Men in Black 2
• K, the protagonist played by John Abraham in No Smoking
• K, a constructed language invented by Robert Dessaix
• K, a character in Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro
• Joseph K., the protagonist of Kafka's 1925 novel, The Trial

In mathematics

• K_m,n, the complete bipartite graph in graph theory

In music

• K (album), 1996 album by Kula Shaker
• K Records, independent record company based in Olympia, Washington
• "K" (song), 2006 song by The Tutts
• K (singer) (born 1983), a Korean singer who works in Japan as a J-pop singer
• K, Köchel catalogue, chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• K, a song by the Japanese rock band Bump of Chicken

In politics

• K, the Keskustapuolue, the Centre Party (Finland)
• K, the politics and followers of President of Argentina Néstor Kirchner (born 1950)

As a symbol or abbreviation

• K, 1000 (number)
• K, for carrying capacity of an environment
• k, symbol of the kilo- prefix in the SI and other systems of unit that denotes multiples of 1000
• K, kilobyte (more correctly KB)
• K, kibibyte (more correctly KiB)
• K, kilobit (more correctly kbit)
• K, abbreviation for kilometre (SI symbol: km)
• K, potassium (from its Latin name kalium)
• K, one-letter designation for the amino acid lysine
• K, SI symbol for kelvin, the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature
• k, the spring constant in Hooke's law relating deformation (strain) and force applied (stress) to a material body
• k or k_B, the Boltzmann constant, the physical constant relating energy and temperature at the particle level
• k, angular wavenumber of a wave
• K carat (purity), measurement applied to gold
• K, ketamine, a street abbreviation for a recreational drug
• K, the Cretaceous geological period
• K, Kyocera' s mobile phones in Japan
• K, a strikeout in baseball scorekeeping
• K, a contract in legal shorthand
• k, a voiceless velar plosive in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• K, kosher
• K, equilibrium constant
• K, key color (i.e., black) in the CMYK color model, especially for printing
• κ or K, relative static permittivity (dielectric constant)
• k_e, constant of Coulomb's law
• k, Thermal conductivity
• k, abbreviation of okay, commonly used in instant messaging, or in S.M.S. messages
• K, the symbol that represents a kaon in particle physics
• K, the construction point of a ski jumping hill
• k, a shorthand for a knighthood in the British honours system

See also

• K class (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "K"
• All pages with titles containing "K"
• Prefix disambiguation: KA, KB, KC, KD, KE, KF, KG, KH, KI, KJ, KK, KL, KM, KN, KO, KP, KQ, KR, KS, KT, KU, KV, KW, KX, KY, KZ