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"Kwatna Peak" 04-58
Kwatna Peak (04-58) is a 2,280 m ultra-prominence summit, prominence 2,215 m, in the Northern Pacific Ranges of British Columbia's Coast Mountains, named for the Kwatna River drainage on Burke Channel.
K
K, eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, from Phoenician kaph via Greek kappa; represents /k/, displaced by C in Latin, restored in English after 1066; Unicode U+004B.
K (Japanese singer)
K (케이), real name Koga Yudai (古賀祐大, born 1997), is a Japanese singer-dancer, eldest member and choreography leader of HYBE Japan's YX Labels group &TEAM (debut 2022), an I-LAND finalist known for marathon roots and acting.
K (programming language)
K is an ASCII-based array programming language designed by Arthur Whitney around 1993 as a terse descendant of APL, used to build the kdb+ database.
K (TV series)
K (K-Project) is a 2012 original Japanese anime by GoRA and GoHands, directed by Shingo Suzuki, about seven supernatural Kings and their Clans; followed by the Missing Kings film, Return of Kings, and Seven Stories.
K band (radio)
K band is a microwave radio band from 18 to 27 GHz, named from the German Kurz for short, and used for police and automotive radar.
K Beerschot VA
K Beerschot VA (Koninklijke Beerschot Voetbalclub Antwerpen), Antwerp club founded 1899, purple-white, Olympic Stadium, matricule 13, seven Belgian titles, three cups, now Challenger Pro League.
K Callan
K Callan (Katherine Elizabeth Borman, born January 9, 1936, Dallas) is an American character actress known for Joe (1970), Martha Kent on Lois & Clark, the All in the Family episode 'Cousin Liz', Knives Out, and Ruth in Apple TV's Widow's Bay, plus 30-plus showbiz reference books.
K Camp
K Camp (Kristopher Thomas Campbell, born 1990, Milwaukee) is an Atlanta-based rapper behind platinum hits Money Baby and Cut Her Off, the viral TikTok hit Lottery (Renegade), and the KISS album series.
K computer
The K computer, named for the Japanese word Kei meaning ten quadrillion, was a Japanese supercomputer built by RIKEN and Fujitsu in Kobe that led the TOP500 list in June 2011 and operated until 2019.
K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
K Foundation Burn a Million Quid was the burning of £1 million by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly the KLF, on the Isle of Jura in 1994.
K Fund
K Fund, styled Kfund, is an independent multistage venture capital firm based in Madrid, founded in 2016 by Iñaki Arrola, Carina Szpilka, and Ian Noel to back startups across Southern Europe and Latin America.
K Health
K Health is a New York digital health company, founded in 2016, that offers AI-assisted virtual primary care through its app and partnerships with major U.S. health systems.
K League 1
K League 1 (K리그1) is South Korea's top professional football division, founded 1983 as the Korean Super League. 12 clubs in 2026, triple round robin plus split final round, expanding to 14 teams in 2027; rated 475 by FIFPRO, second in Asia behind J1 League.
K Rider Club
K Rider Club (K Rider Surf School) is a surf, bodyboard, and stand-up paddle school at Kergolezec near Morgat, Crozon peninsula, Finistère, Brittany, offering group and private lessons from €40, equipment rental, and sailing on the sloop Ti Barrel.
K Sanjay Murthy
K Sanjay Murthy is a 1989-batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS officer who served as Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, and became Comptroller and Auditor General of India in November 2024.
K Street (Washington, D.C.)
K Street (Washington, D.C.): downtown NW corridor planned 147 feet wide by L'Enfant, once mansion row, since the 1970s shorthand for the lobbying industry though most major firms have moved elsewhere.
K V Kamath
K V Kamath, also known as Kundapur Vaman Kamath, is an Indian banker who led ICICI from 1996 to 2009, transforming it into India's largest private-sector bank.
K-1
K-1, also known as K-1 kickboxing, is a Japanese kickboxing promotion founded in Tokyo in 1993 by karate practitioner Kazuyoshi Ishii, whose ruleset most international kickboxing promotions derive from.
K-1 visa
K-1 visa, the U.S. fiancé(e) nonimmigrant visa created in 1970, lets a foreign fiancé(e) of a U.S. citizen enter to marry within 90 days and then adjust status; distinct from K-2, K-3, and CR-1/IR-1 routes.
K-10 (rover)
K10, also written K-10, is a prototype planetary rover built by NASA's Ames Research Center in California as a testbed for autonomous lunar site survey and astronaut telerobotics.
K-12 unit schools in the United States
A K-12 unit school is a public school serving kindergarten through twelfth grade in one organization, typically in remote rural areas, often as a district's only school.
K-13 (К-13) (missile)
The K-13 (К-13), NATO name AA-2 Atoll, is a Soviet short-range infrared-homing air-to-air missile reverse engineered from the American AIM-9B Sidewinder and fielded from 1962.
K-19: The Widowmaker
K-19: The Widowmaker is Kathryn Bigelow's 2002 drama starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson about the 1961 reactor accident aboard the Soviet submarine K-19, a $135 million production that earned $65.7 million.
K-25
K-25 was a uranium enrichment plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built for the Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1945, with what was then the largest building in the world.
K-2SO
K-2SO, also known as Kaytoo-Esso, is a fictional droid in the Star Wars franchise, a reprogrammed Imperial security droid serving the Rebel Alliance, first appearing in Rogue One (2016).
K-5 Plan
The K5 Plan, also called the K5 Belt or K5 Project, was a Cambodian border-defense program with Vietnam that mined and fortified the Thai border from 1984.
K-9 (film)
K-9 is a 1989 American buddy cop comedy directed by Rod Daniel, starring James Belushi as a San Diego narcotics detective whose partner is a German shepherd named Jerry Lee.
K-anonymity
K-anonymity is a privacy criterion for published datasets, introduced by Latanya Sweeney in 2002, requiring every record to be indistinguishable from at least k minus 1 others.
K-Arena Yokohama
K-Arena Yokohama (Ｋアリーナ横浜) is a 20,033-seat indoor music arena in Yokohama, Japan, opened in 2023 in the Minato Mirai 21 district and known for its permanent 200-speaker sound system.