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K
1[ key ]
noun
- the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
- any sound represented by the letter K or k, as in bilk, kit, or sick.
- something having the shape of a K .
- a written or printed representation of the letter K or k.
- a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter K or k.
K
2abbreviation for
- the number 1000:
The salary offered is $20K.
- kilometer, especially in a footrace or wheelchair race on a road or track:
She’s training to run her first 10K this summer.
K
3abbreviation for
- Chess. king.
- Physics. Kelvin.
- Music. Köchel listing.
- kindergarten:
a K–12 boarding school.
- Real Estate. kitchen.
K
4- the eleventh in order or in a series.
- Computers.
- the number 1024 or 2 10 :
A binary 32K memory has 32,768 positions.
- Baseball. strikeout; strikeouts.
- Physics. kaon ( def ).
- Biochemistry. lysine ( def ).
- Chemistry. potassium ( def ).
k
5- Mathematics. a vector on the z-axis, having length 1 unit.
K
6abbreviation for
- carrying capacity.
k.
7abbreviation for
- Electricity. capacity.
- karat.
- kilogram; kilograms.
- Chess. king.
- knight.
- knot.
- kopeck.
K.
8abbreviation for
- kip; kips.
- Knight.
- kwacha.
K
1symbol for
- kelvin(s)
- chess king
- chem potassium
- physics kaon
- currency
- kina
- kip
- kopeck
- kwacha
- kyat
- one thousand
- computing
- a unit of 1024 words, bits, or bytes
- (not in technical usage) 1000
abbreviation for
- Cambodia (international car registration)
K
2abbreviation for
- Köchel: indicating the serial number in the catalogue (1862) of the works of Mozart made by Ludwig von Köchel (1800–77)
k
3/ keɪ /
noun
- the 11th letter and 8th consonant of the modern English alphabet
- a speech sound represented by this letter, usually a voiceless velar stop, as in kitten
- See five Ks
k
4symbol for
- kilo(s)
- maths the unit vector along the z-axis
Word History and Origins
Origin of K1
Word History and Origins
Origin of K1
Example Sentences
Other areas of potential scrutiny are teacher job protections in K-12 schools and Head Start preschools.
“I’m kind of a scavenger,” U.K.-based designer Ellen Poppy Hill says of her approach to secondhand fabric sourcing.
Trump “is going to hit the Department of Justice with a blowtorch — and that torch is Matt Gaetz,” former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon said last week.
I think you can see this in their language of disruption in how they start new business plans and existing changes in K-12 and higher education at the state level right now.
This was particularly notable in a reading of the libretto for a proposed new opera by Ted Hearn, one of our most politically outspoken composers, based on Ursula K Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed.”
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