K

K

K¹ [kā]

n.

[ K(ILO-)]

1. Comput. KILOBYTE

2. Informal a thousand dollars [she earns 40K now]

K²

abbrev.

1. karat (carat)

2. kathode (cathode)

3. Physics Kelvin

4. Football kicker: sometimes written k

5. kilometer

6. kindergarten

7. Chess king

8. Bible Kings

9. knit

10. kosher: prepared according to kashrut

☆ 11. [< ( struc) k ( out)] Baseball strikeout

12. Comput. the number 1,024, or 2¹⁰

13. Music a prefix to the numbers of the works of W. A. Mozart as indexed in the catalog of his works compiled by L. Köchel (1800-77), Austrian musicologist

K³

symbol

1. Elec. symbol capacitycapacity

2. [ModL kalium < Ar (al-)qili: see ALKALI] Chem. symbol for potassium