K Definition

kā
noun
The eleventh letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek kappa, a borrowing from the Phoenician.
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Any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (k) of kept.
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A type or impression for k or K.
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The 11th in a series.
American Heritage
The eleventh in a sequence or group.
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Synonyms:
abbreviation
Karat (carat)
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Kilo-
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Kilogram.
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Kilometer.
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Kelvin.
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adjective
Of k or K.
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Eleventh in a sequence or group.
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Shaped like K.
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Synonyms:
symbol
Boltzmann constant.
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Capacity.
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Potassium.
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(chemistry) A radical cation of potassium with a charge number of 1

Wiktionary

(computing) The ASCII control character vertical tab in caret notation.

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letter

The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.

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The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations west of the Mississippi river.

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numeral

The ordinal number eleventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.

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suffix
(obsolete, no longer productive) A suffix found in words of Middle English, Old English, and Proto-Germanic origin; occurring simultaneously in other Germanic languages, usually with an intensive or frequentative effect.

Other Word Forms of K

Noun

Singular:
k
Plural:
KS

Origin of K

  • From Middle English -ken, -kien, from Old English -cian, from Proto-Germanic *-kōną. Cognate with West Frisian -kje, German -chen, Danish -ke, Swedish -ka. Perhaps related to Old English diminutive suffix -uc, -oc. More at -ock.

    From Wiktionary

  • k(ilo–)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

K Sentence Examples

  • That the different ranks or degrees of circular groups exhibited in the animal kingdom are Nine k in number, each being involved within the other."

  • Hence the successive remainders are successively smaller multiples of L, but still integral multiples, so that the series of quotients k, s, t,.

  • The tranverse electromotive force is equal to KCH/D, where C is the current, H the strength of the field, D the thickness of the metal, and K a constant which has been termed the rotatory power, or rotational coefficient.

  • Owing to the difficulty of determining the magnetization I and the susceptibility K with accuracy, it has not yet been possible to submit this formula to a quantitative test, but it is said to afford an indication of the results given by actual experiment.

  • If V is the volume of a ball, H the strength of the field at its centre, and re its apparent susceptibility, the force in the direction x is f= K'VH X dH/dx; and if K',, and are the apparent susceptibilities of the same ball in air and in liquid oxygen, K' Q -K'o is equal to the difference between the susceptibilities of the two media.

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