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  k

  a vector on the z-axis, having length 1 unit.
• K
  K

  abbreviation

  carrying capacity.
• k.
  k.

  abbreviation

  capacity.
• K.
  K.

  abbreviation

  kip; kips.

k

¹ American  

Symbol.

1. Mathematics. a vector on the z-axis, having length 1 unit.

2. Boltzmann constant.

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K ² American  

abbreviation

Ecology.

1. carrying capacity.

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K ³ American  

[kay] / keɪ /

Or k

noun

• K's,
  plural
• Ks,
  plural
• k's,
  plural
• ks
  plural

1. the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.

2. any sound represented by the letter K or k, as in bilk, kit, or sick.

3. something having the shape of a K .

4. a written or printed representation of the letter K or k.

5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter K or k.

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K ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. the number 1000.

   The salary offered is $20K.

2. kilometer, especially in a footrace or wheelchair race on a road or track.

   She’s training to run her first 10K this summer.

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K ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Chess. king.

2. Physics. Kelvin.

3. Music. Köchel listing.

4. kindergarten.

   a K–12 boarding school.

5. Real Estate. kitchen.

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K ⁶ American  

Symbol.

1. the eleventh in order or in a series.

2. Computers.

   1. the number 1024 or 2 10 .

      A binary 32K memory has 32,768 positions.

   2. kilobyte.

3. Baseball. strikeout; strikeouts.

4. Physics. kaon.

5. Biochemistry. lysine.

6. Chemistry. potassium.

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k. ⁷ American  

abbreviation

1. Electricity. capacity.

2. karat.

3. kilogram; kilograms.

4. Chess. king.

5. knight.

6. knot.

7. kopeck.

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K. ⁸ American  

abbreviation

1. kip; kips.

2. Knight.

3. kwacha.

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K ¹ British  

symbol

1. kelvin(s)

2. chess king

3. chem potassium

4. physics kaon

5. currency

   1. kina

   2. kip

   3. kopeck

   4. kwacha

   5. kyat

6. one thousand

7. computing

   1. a unit of 1024 words, bits, or bytes

   2. (not in technical usage) 1000

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abbreviation

1. Cambodia (international car registration)

k ² British  

/ keɪ /

noun

1. the 11th letter and 8th consonant of the modern English alphabet

2. a speech sound represented by this letter, usually a voiceless velar stop, as in kitten

3. See five Ks

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k ³ British  

symbol

1. kilo(s)

2. maths the unit vector along the z-axis

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K ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. Köchel: indicating the serial number in the catalogue (1862) of the works of Mozart made by Ludwig von Köchel (1800–77)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• K's
  plural
• Ks
  plural
• k's
  plural
• ks
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of K⁴

Abbreviation of kilo- K ² for def. 1; abbreviation of kilometer ( def. ) K ² for def. 2

Origin of K⁶

K ⁴ def. 6 from German Kalium

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Example Sentences

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Alcoa san k 7% after the aluminum producer’s first-quarter earnings and revenue fell short of analysts’ expectations.

From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026

The k track was the mirror image of a particle seen before by colleagues in Manchester, but the Manchester team's track decayed into two pions, not three.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024

As soon as the objects get redistributed even slightly, one of the drawers will inevitably contain more than n ⁄ k objects.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 20, 2023

He then shared a story how when he was younger, he once got the letters x,y, z and k in Scrabble — and spent 15 minutes determined to try to make a move.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

When Obinze pronounced “schedule” with the k sound, his mother said, “Ifemelunamma, please tell my son I don’t speak American. Could he say that in English?”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Serhii K will shortly become the first suspect to face charges in this high profile trial.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

They "strongly suspect" that Serhii K led a crew that included four deep-sea divers, using a rented yacht called Andromeda.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The planned IPO is also a defensive measure against hostile buyout attempts following a long-running $47 billion takeover campaign by Circle K owner Alimentation Couche-Tard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Canadian owner of Circle K abandoned the bid in July last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He decided against doing so, because Miss K said hurting people did not solve anything.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary

It was truly a scene at that time, often set to music by Robert John Burck, a. k. a. the Naked Cowboy, a fervent supporter of Mr. Trump.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2017

But just as bell hooks, the feminist writer, and k. d. lang, the singer-songwriter, often see their names appear with unwanted capital letters, lowercase compositions are often capitalized on their way to publication.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2017

The Japanese took to the game so wholeheartedly that today their system is actually overbuilt; generating stations with a capacity of some 300,000 k. w. lie idle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some Circes shall make him, of // | Circes. od. k.     a plaine English man, a right Italian.

From The Schoolmaster by Roger Ascham

Gothic, English, Low Dutch f. p. b. th. t. d. ch. k. g.

From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen

"We must also be clear about where the responsibility for this lies," Singapore Senior Minister K. Shanmugam told reporters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the Amicus bonus episode, Dahlia sits down with Madiba K. Dennie of Balls and Strikes to discuss Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s new book and the court’s new term.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Parents are children’s natural providers and protectors,” said Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Scientists from the laboratories of Alex K. Shalek, director of MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and Matthew Vander Heiden, director of the Koch Institute, also participated in the work.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

And the film was based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, one of Halliday s favorite authors.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

New members to Circle K’s loyalty program get 25 cents off a gallon for their first five fuel-ups.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026

With Albania already assured of second place, Serbia beat Latvia 2-1 in a dead-rubber in Group K's other match.

From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025

Stanford bound Mike Erspamer with the complete game shutout & 9 K’s; Kai Cesare with a 2 run double.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025

The ombudsman has recommended Betsi Cadwaladr health board offer a full apology from its chief executive to Mrs K's daughter and to pay her £4,000.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2024

By the end of the night, a slightly tweaked formula had worked for two more K's: IX and XIV.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

Only four pitchers in the majors this year recorded more Ks with a single pitch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024

Over four games, the Mariners have fanned 45 times, and their 11.25 Ks per game are the second most in MLB.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

The student didn't even care to investigate what the three Ks meant in Murillo's book title.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2023

Strider fanned 11 hitters to add to his MLB-leading strikeout total - his fourth start this season with double-digit Ks and 10th of his young career.

From Washington Times ● May 24, 2023

Once I felt the coast was clear, I began, first drawing the connected Ks and finishing with a wide circle around them, my custom style.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

Hard consonants - k's, d's, hard c's and hard g's - gave me hell.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2010

It was because she has trouble saying words sometimes, especially beginnings, like b’s and t’s and k’s.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Here in Fiji the singing was harsh and discordant, as k’s and r’s abound in the language.

From Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by H. Wilfrid Walker

It will be found, as a rule, that an Englishman imparts a slight aspirate to his p’s, t’s, k’s and ch’s, and therefore has greater difficulty with the unaspirated words in Chinese.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

I believe it to be a sign of a man having arrived at the dignity of marriage; it is called esikoko, the two k’s signifying two clicks of the tongue.

From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

Bills 31st in NFL with 16 sac ks, including 10 in 23-0 win over Redskins.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2011

With the construction of big military bases at Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska became more than a massive map sprinkled with names full of harsh ks and ts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fyodorov and his colleagues have performed more than 2,000 "radial ks" with, they claim, most of the cases improving to at least 20/25 vision.

From Time Magazine Archive

Exceptions.—X final, being equivalent to ks, is never doubled; and when the derivative does not retain the accent of the root, the final consonant is not always doubled: as, prefer' + ence = pref'erence.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

In both these instances its chief phonetic element appears to be the guttural sound k, or ks.

From Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. by Cyrus Thomas

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