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 Hungarian 3.1 Abbreviation 3.2 See also 4 Romanian 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Letter

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Symbol

K

1. (chemistry) Symbol for potassium.
2. Symbol for kelvin, the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature.
3. (baseball) The statistic for strikeouts.
4. (finance, US) The symbol for one thousand units of currency.
5. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for lysine

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /keɪ/, SAMPA: /keI/

  Rhymes: -eɪ

[edit] Letter

K (uppercase, lowercase k)

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

[edit] Abbreviation

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] Hungarian

[edit] Abbreviation

K

1. E (east)

[edit] See also

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

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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.