PK

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PK may stand for:

Geography

• Pakistan (ISO country code PK)
• Park (map abbreviation)
• Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas
• Pyramidal peak (map abbreviation)
• Peekskill, New York, town in New York, the United States

People and organizations

• Pakistan International Airlines (IATA airline code PK)
• Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda
• Paul Krugman, Nobel-winning economist and New York Times columnist
• Phil Katz, creator of the PKZIP file compression software
• Polyteknikkojen Kuoro, a Finnish academic male choir
• Promise Keepers, a Christian men's organization
• Patrick J. Kennedy US Representative from Rhode Island's first district

Sports

• Parkour, a physical art
• Penalty kick, in association football (soccer)
• Penalty kill, in ice hockey
• Placekicker, in American football
• Pickoff, in baseball

Gaming

• Probability of kill (often used in simulation)
• Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows, a video game
• Player killer, a person who kills other players in MMORPG's
• PK (PsychoKinesis is a term used for psionic powers in the EarthBound series and later in the Super Smash Bros. series, particularly Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
• Phantom King
• Pirandello Kruger, a Private Security company from Mirror's Edge.

Science and technology

• Horsepower (Dutch abbr. paardenkracht)
• Pentax K Mount, Pentax K lens mount
• Pharmacokinetics
• Pink Sheets, a securities-trading information system
• Primary key
• Psychokinesis
• Public-key cryptography
• pK, negative logarithm of the dissociation constant K (-logK)
• Port knocking, a method of externally opening ports on a firewall

Other

• Packages, it is a shortform
• Paperinik, cartoon character
• Philosopher king, the hypothetical Guardians of Plato's utopia Kallipolis
• Preacher's kid
• Public Knowledge
• PK machine gun, a Soviet weapon, abbreviated from Pulemyot Kalashnikova (Kalashnikov machine gun)
• Point kilométrique is a French acronym French: Point kilométrique) used to measure distances for boundary mileage used mainly in France, on railways, highways, canals, and freeways to help locate a specific location.

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