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 (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 (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

• $K_{n}$ and $K_{m,n}$, the complete and complete bipartite graph
• K-theory, a branch of topology and algebra
• $\mathbb {K}$, in 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., abbreviation for Ralph Kirkpatrick’s chronological catalogue of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas
• K., abbreviation for the Köchel catalogue, chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• K Records, independent record company based in Olympia, Washington

Albums

• 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 (1950-2010)

As a symbol or abbreviation

• k, from Latin kilo, for 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, 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
• K, abbreviation of gridiron football position Kicker (also known as placekicker)

Unit

• k, symbol of the kilo- prefix in the SI and other systems of unit that denotes multiples of 1000
• K, 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 (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

• Potassium, symbol K, a chemical element
• 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 k_B, the Boltzmann constant, the physical constant relating energy and temperature at the particle level
• $\kappa$ or K, relative static permittivity (dielectric constant)
• k_e, the Coulomb 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

See also

• K class (disambiguation)
• Circle-k (disambiguation)