K is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet.
K may also refer to:
- A prefix for North American call signs used by broadcast stations in the US west of the Mississippi River
- Chrysler K platform, 1981-1995 car design used by Chrysler
- 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
- Low-K, the dielectric constant in semiconductors, electronics, and physics
- 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
- Vitamin K, a group of vitamins that are needed to promote blood coagulation
- K-factor, several unrelated terms in physics, engineering, telecommunications and chess
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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 The Castle (novel)
- 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
- Joseph K., the protagonist of Kafka's 1925 novel, The Trial
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
- k, symbol of the kilo- prefix in the SI and other systems of unit that denotes multiples of 1000
- k, kilobyte (more correctly kB) meaning 1000 bytes
- k, kibibyte (more correctly KiB) meaning 1024 bytes
- K, potassium (from its Latin name kalium)
- K, one-letter designation for the amino acid lysine
- K, 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 kB, the Boltzmann constant, the physical constant relating energy and temperature at the particle level
- k, angular wavenumber of a wave
- K or Kt, carat, a measurement of 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, a symbol sometimes used by food manufacturers to indicate that they claim the product to be kosher
- K, equilibrium constant (also Kc and Kp)
- K, represents key color (Black) in the CMYK printing process.
- κ or K, relative static permittivity (dielectric constant)
- ke, Coulomb's constant
- k, Thermal conductivity
- k, abbreviation of okay, commonly used in instant messaging, or in S.M.S. messages
See also
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