K
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K
- (chemistry) Symbol for potassium.
- Symbol for kelvin, the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature.
- (baseball) The statistic for strikeouts.
- (finance, US) The symbol for one thousand units of currency.
- (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for lysine
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K (uppercase, lowercase k)
- The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, preceded by J and followed by L.
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K
- (education, US) kindergarten
- Example: "K-8" is Kindergarten through eighth grade
- (computing, often) 1,024.
- A single character message used as an acknowledgement (ACK), meaning "previous message received and understood."
- In morse code K means "go ahead" or "over" as a procedural signal.
- (baseball) Strikeouts.
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K (plural Ks)
[edit] Hungarian
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K
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- IPA: /ka/
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K (capital, lowercase k)
- The fourteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, mostly used in foreign words to represent the phoneme /k/. Preceded by J and followed by L.

