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k

The eleventh (11th) letter of the alphabet. "k" comes after "j" and before "l"

k

(= K) the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet (= 1000) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

K

(= kelvin) the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet street names for ketamine (= kilobyte) a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes (= potassium) a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite (= kilobyte) a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes (= thousand) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

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Simple sentences

O.K. I'm glad you could come.
Are you ready for Y2K?
In 1999, everyone was afraid of the Y2K bug.

Movie subtitles

The work on the titles was done by trickWilk in Berlin. The restored master was used as the basis for the 2K digitisation in 2014.
All materials were scanned in 2K resolution and digitally restored.
The master negative of this edit was used for the 2K digital version.
I've got one. Let's k-nock.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K.
And there's the Elizabeth K. Brown.
I'll put the O on now and come back later for the K.
For what we're about to receive. Let the Lord make us truly thankful. O.K.
Think of what this means. O.K.
O.K. Guns are the best things for rats.
K. Novak, liquor factory, Prague 15, Klimesova 10.
K-ss.
C.K. Dexter Haven.
General Headquarters, army of the Crimea. From His Excellency Field Marshall the Earl of Raglan, K.C.B. commanding.
To Major General Sir Benjamin Warrenton K.C.B. number 1174.
I-K A-V.
Everybody except C.K. Dexter Haven?
C.K. Dexter Haven!
Oh, C.K. Dexter Haven!
C.K. Dexter Haven, I would like to talk to you.
C.K. Dexter Haven, you have unsuspected depth.
And what's that make you worth, C.K. Dexter Haven?
Doggone it, C.K. Dexter Haven, either I'm gonna sock you or you're gonna sock me.
Honored, C.K.
This is Mike Taylor, R.O.K U.S combined forces command.
Yes, sir, with a capital K.
What kind of a name is that, anyway? C.K. Dexter Haven.

News and current affairs

Here, then, is an idea (part of A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Euro Crisis, co-authored by Stuart Holland, and James K. Galbraith) aimed at re-calibrating the rules, enhancing their spirit, and addressing the underlying economic problem.
And management thinkers from the late C. K. Prahalad to Jaideep Prabhu have shown how industry can be reconfigured to produce high-quality products cheaply and cleanly.
For many decades, Californians had rapidly rising living standards, great public K-12 and higher education systems, and unprecedented upward mobility.
A 401(k) is a heavily tax-favored account in which workers can save money for their retirement.
Typically, employers - including Fox News - match workers' 401(k) contributions, so setting up a 401(k) is an irresistible financial deal, a true no-brainer.
And they might reasonably conclude that his failure to channel some of his Fox News salary into a 401(k) account is a very powerful argument against the words coming out of his mouth.
America has many people who do not set up 401(k) accounts, despite enormous incentives to do so.
In fact, 50 years ago, in his classic book Social Theory and Social Structure, the late sociologist Robert K. Merton described the results of a case study of influential people in a typical American town, Rovere, New Jersey.
One reason for the IPCC's notable success has been the skilled guiding hand of the IPCC Chairman, Dr. R. K. Pachauri, who will accept the prize on the body's behalf.
If I want to know whether it was possible that Napoleon met Kant, I pick up volumes K and N and discover that Napoleon was born in 1769 and died in 1821, and that Kant was born in 1724 and died in 1804.
University seminars in Rio are as lively as those in Cambridge, Mass or Cambridge U.K.
In theory, this already has happened: K. R. Narayanan, born into a poor Dalit family, served as India's president, the highest office in the land, from 1997 to 2002.
Another case is SABIS, a provider of K-12 education in the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.
There is also the unholy glee with which they have set about destroying an icon of the anti-global warming movement, the Nobel Laureate R.K Pachauri, by attributing financial motives to his research.