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K1 or k noun (Ks, K's or k's) the eleventh letter of the English alphabet.

K2 noun (plural K) colloq 1 one thousand, especially £1000 a • salary of 40K per annum plus company car. 2 computing a unit of memory equal to 1024 bits, bytes or words.
ETYMOLOGY: 20c: from kilo-.

K3 abbreviation 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.

K4 symbol 1 chem: kalium (Latin), potassium. 2 physics kaon. 3 chess king. 4 one thousand.

k1 symbol 1 physics Boltzmann constant. 2 chem velocity constant.

k2 abbreviation 1 karat or carat. 2 kilo or kilo-.