K Definition

Ks, K's, k's
1. The eleventh letter of the English alphabet.

colloq:
1. One thousand, especially £1000.

Example: a salary of 40K per annum plus company car
2. computing.
A unit of memory equal to 1024 bits, bytes or words.

1. IVR.
Kampuchea, now Cambodia.
2. physics.
Kelvin, the kelvin scale or a degree on the kelvin scale.
3. Kilo.
4. computing.
Kilobyte.
5. cards.
King.
6. chess.
Knight.
7. knitting.
Knit a plain stitch.
8. Köchel (German), indicating the serial number in the catalogue of the works of Mozart.
9. Krona, Swedish currency.
10. Króna, Icelandic currency.
11. Krone, Danish and Norwegian currency.
12. Kwacha, Zambian currency.

1. chem.
kalium (Latin), potassium.
2. physics.
Kaon.
3. chess.
King.
4. One thousand.

1. physics.
Boltzmann constant.
2. chem.
Velocity constant.