K

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Symbol 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.3 Abbreviation 2.4 Noun 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Letter 3.3 See also 4 Hungarian 4.1 Abbreviation 4.2 See also 5 Italian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun 6 Romanian 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Letter 7 Slovene 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Letter

[edit] Translingual

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K

1. (chemistry) Symbol for potassium.
2. Symbol for kelvin, the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature.
3. (baseball) The statistic for strikeouts.
4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for lysine.
5. Thousand.

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kʰeɪ/, SAMPA: /keI/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

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K (uppercase, lowercase k)

1. The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, preceded by J and followed by L.

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K

1. (education, US) kindergarten

   Example: "K-8" is Kindergarten through eighth grade

2. (computing, often) 1,024.
3. A single character message used as an acknowledgement (ACK), meaning "previous message received and understood."
4. In morse code K means "go ahead" or "over" as a procedural signal.
5. (baseball) Strikeouts.

[edit] Noun

K (plural Ks)

1. (law, informal) A contract.

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ka/

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K (capital, lowercase k)

1. The eleventh letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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• Previous letter: J
• Next letter: L

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[edit] Hungarian

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K

1. E (east)

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• észak (É), dél (D), kelet, nyugat (Ny)

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkappa/, SAMPA: /"kappa/

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K m. and f. inv.

1. The eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ka/

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K (capital, lowercase k)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, mostly used in foreign words to represent the phoneme /k/. Preceded by J and followed by L.

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K (capital, lowercase k)

1. The 12th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by J and followed by L.