K (disambiguation)
Appearance
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 (disambiguation)
- K computer, a Japanese supercomputer
- K-factor (disambiguation), several unrelated terms in physics, engineering, telecommunications and chess
- K (Broadway Brooklyn Local), earlier KK, a defunct service in the New York City Subway discontinued in 1976
- K (Eighth Avenue Local), a defunct service 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
- 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
- K (Indian composer), Indian film composer.
- K (singer) (born 1983), Korean singer who works in Japan as a J-pop singer
- K, deceased guitarist of Japanese visual kei band Moi Dix Mois
In fiction and literature
Books
- K (Minogue and Baker book), a photographic book by Kylie Minogue and William Baker
- K, a 2011 novel by Bernardo Kucinski, Brazilian journalist and political scientist
- K. (novel), a 1915 novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- "K" Is for Killer, the eleventh novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 1994
Films and TV
- K (miniseries), a Filipino television series
- K (2002 film), directed by Shoja Azari, an Iranian American
- K, a 1997 French film directed by Alexandre Arcady
- K (TV series), a Japanese anime
- K, the production code for the 1964 Doctor Who serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Characters
- K, the protagonist of Franz Kafka's 1926 novel The Castle
- K, a character in the manga and anime Gravitation
- K, the main character in the novel by the same name by Bernardo Kucinski
- 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
- K, the protagonist played by John Abraham in No Smoking
- K, a character in Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro
- K, a character in the visual novel Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
- K′, also known as "K Dash" or "K Prime", a King of Fighters character
- Agent K, the character played by Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black, Men in Black II, and Men in Black 3
- Joseph K., the protagonist of Kafka's 1925 novel, The Trial
- K, the main character in the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049
- Dr. K, the character in Power Rangers RPM
Other
- K, a constructed language invented by Robert Dessaix
In mathematics
- and , the complete and complete bipartite graph
- K-theory, a branch of topology and algebra
- Blackboard bold is a commonly used symbol for a field, as an abbreviation of the German Körper.
- K, the complete elliptic integral of the first kind
In music
- K, Köchel catalogue, chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- K Records, independent record company based in Olympia, Washington
- K (album), 1996 album by Kula Shaker
Songs
- "K", a song by Cul de Sac (band)
- K, a song by the Japanese rock band Bump of Chicken
- "K" (The Tutts song), 2006 song by The Tutts
- "K", a song by The Hold Steady
- "K.", a song from Cigarettes After Sex (album) by Cigarettes After Sex
In politics
- K, the Keskustapuolue, the Centre Party (Finland)
- K, Kommunistiska Partiet, the Communist Party (Sweden)
- K, the politics and followers of former President of Argentina Néstor Kirchner (born 1950)
As a symbol or abbreviation
- k, 1000 (number)
- K, ketamine, a street abbreviation for a recreational drug
- 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, key color (i.e., black) in the CMYK color model, especially for printing
- k, abbreviation of okay, commonly used in instant messaging, or in S.M.S. messages
- K, the construction point of a ski jumping hill
- k, a shorthand for a knighthood in the British honours system
- K, the ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange for the Kellogg Company
Unit
- k, symbol of the kilo- prefix in the SI and other systems of unit that denotes multiples of 1000
- K, SI symbol for kelvin, the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature
- K (upper case), informal abbreviation for kibibyte or 1024 bytes
- k (lower case), informal abbreviation for kilobyte or 1000 bytes
- k, kilobit (more correctly kbit)
- k or K, abbreviation for kilometre (SI symbol: km) (especially in measured-distance sports, e.g. "10K run")
- k or K, abbreviation for kilohm, a measure of resistance in electronics
In the natural sciences
- K, one-letter designation for the amino acid lysine
- K, for carrying capacity of an environment
- K carat (purity), measurement applied to gold
- K, the Cretaceous geological period
In the physical sciences
- K (element), the chemical symbol for potassium (from its Latin name kalium)
- k, angular wavenumber of a wave
- k, wavevector of a wave
- K, the symbol that represents a kaon in particle physics
- k, the spring constant in Hooke's law relating deformation (strain) and force applied (stress) to a material body
- k or kB, the Boltzmann constant, the physical constant relating energy and temperature at the particle level
- or K, relative static permittivity (dielectric constant)
- ke, Coulomb's constant
- K, equilibrium constant
- k, thermal conductivity
- k, the Gaussian gravitational constant
- k, often used for some proportionality constant
Military and guns
- Kilo, the military time zone code for UTC+10:00
- Operation K, a Japanese World War II naval operation
- The K Project, a series of five nuclear tests by the Soviet Union
- Swedish K, a submachine gun
- AK-47, an assault rifle