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k en · NUM · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /keɪ/ (letter, name)
  • (US) audio
  • (UK) audio
  • /k/ (phoneme)

Meanings

  1. (lowercase, number) The eleventh numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.

Forms

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ks Number=Plur lexicographic
K uppercase lexicographic
k's Number=Plur lexicographic
Source: en.wiktionary, “k” (num), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

k en · SYM · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /keɪ/ (letter, name)
  • (US) audio
  • (UK) audio
  • /k/ (phoneme)

Meanings

  1. (letter, lowercase) The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.
  2. (letter, lowercase) The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations west of the Mississippi river.

Forms

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K uppercase lexicographic
ks Number=Plur lexicographic
k's Number=Plur lexicographic
Source: en.wiktionary, “k” (character), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

k en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From kilo-.

Meanings

  1. A kilobyte (more formally KB or kB).
  2. A kilobit (more formally kb), especially in measuring Internet connection.
  3. (colloquial) kilometre or kilometres.
    • We drove 15 ks before we realised Billy wasn't in the back seat.
  4. (colloquial) thousand or thousands.
    • Just about 65 k of Jack's full salary comes from servicing the Baker account.
  5. The SI measurement value of 1,000

Forms

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k's Number=Plur lexicographic
ks Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

k-adic · k-means clustering · k-cell · k-adic notation · k-rad · k-anonymity · k-algebra · k-essence · k-line · kya · 401k · k-d tree · 56k · k-word · 401(k) · KLOC · k-style · k-value

Source: en.wiktionary, “k” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

k en · INTJ · etymology 3

Etymology

Clipping of OK.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, colloquial) OK

Deriveds

kk · kthxbye

Synonyms

'kay