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Kilobyte
The kilobyte (kB) is a unit of digital information equal to 1,000 bytes, while older computing usage applied it to 1,024 bytes, now called a kibibyte.
Kilogram
The kilogram (kg) is the SI base unit of mass, defined since 20 May 2019 by fixing the Planck constant, replacing the platinum-iridium prototype kept near Paris.
Kilogram-force
The kilogram-force (kgf), also called the kilopond (kp), is a deprecated metric unit of force: the gravitational force on one kilogram, equal to exactly 9.80665 newtons.
Kilohertz-frequency spinal cord stimulation
Kilohertz-frequency spinal cord stimulation (kHz SCS) is a paresthesia-free neuromodulation therapy using 10 kHz pulses; in the SENZA-RCT it outperformed traditional SCS for back and leg pain.
Kilombero Valley Floodplain
Kilombero Valley Floodplain: Tanzania's Ramsar-designated wetland (designated 2002), the largest seasonal freshwater lowland floodplain in East Africa, about 260 km long, with endemic birds, the puku antelope, and heavy agricultural conversion.
Kilometre
The kilometer (kilometer, symbol km) is an SI unit of length equal to 1,000 meters, used for road distances and travel speeds in most of the world.
Kilometres per hour
The kilometer per hour (km/h), often written kph, is a unit of speed accepted for use with the SI, whose coherent speed unit is the meter per second (3.6 km/h).
Kilonova
A kilonova, also called a macronova, is a days-long supernova-like transient powered by radioactive decay of heavy elements forged when two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole merge.
Kilopower
Kilopower is a small fission nuclear power system developed by NASA and the Department of Energy to deliver 1 to 10 kWe for spacecraft and planetary surfaces.
Kilowatt-hour
The kilowatt-hour (kWh) is a unit of energy equal to one kilowatt of power sustained for one hour, or exactly 3.6 megajoules. It is the standard commercial unit for billing electrical energy.
Kilroot power station
Kilroot power station is a power station on Belfast Lough near Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, opened in 1981 and switched from coal to gas turbines in 2023.
Kilroy was here
Kilroy was here is World War II American military graffiti of a long-nosed man peeking over a wall, attributed to shipyard inspector James J. Kilroy and merged with the British Mr. Chad doodle.
Kilroy Was Here (album)
Kilroy Was Here is Styx's eleventh studio album, a 1983 A&M rock opera by Dennis DeYoung about a government banning rock music; it hit No. 3, spawned the million-selling "Mr. Roboto," and ended the classic lineup.
Kilsby Tunnel
Kilsby Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the London & Birmingham Railway near Kilsby, Northamptonshire, England, engineered by Robert Stephenson and built between 1835 and 1838.
Kilt
The kilt is a knee-length, wrap-around garment with heavy pleats at the back, made of tartan cloth and first recorded in the 16th century as Highland dress.
Kilukkam (കിലുക്കം)
Kilukkam (കിലുക്കം) is a 1991 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by Priyadarshan, starring Mohanlal, Revathi, and Jagathy Sreekumar, set in Ooty; it cost Rs 60 lakh and became Malayalam cinema's first Rs 5 crore grosser.
Kilusang Bagong Lipunan
Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL), or New Society Movement, is a Philippine political party founded by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1978 as the dominant party of his authoritarian regime.
Kilwa Chronicle
The Kilwa Chronicle (Kitab al-Sulwa) is an Arabic account of the kings of Kilwa on the Swahili coast, from a Persian foundation story to the Portuguese arrival.
Kilwa Kisiwani
Kilwa Kisiwani is an island off southern Tanzania whose trading town peaked in the 13th and 14th centuries, controlling Indian Ocean gold and ivory trade.
Kilwa Sultanate
The Kilwa Sultanate was a Muslim trading state based on Kilwa island off present-day Tanzania, dominating East African and Indian Ocean trade until the Portuguese conquest of 1505.
Kilwa's conquest of Sofala
Kilwa's conquest of Sofala, dated by written sources to the 1180s, gave the Swahili city-state of Kilwa command of the East African gold trade and dominance of the Swahili coast.
Kilwinning
Kilwinning is a North Ayrshire town on the River Garnock, home to the ruins of a Tironensian abbey founded by Richard de Morville c.1162 and regarded as the mother lodge of Scottish freemasonry; population 16,982.
Kilwon Cho
Kilwon Cho (조길원) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at POSTECH, known for research on organic semiconductors and flexible electronics, who led the Center for Advanced Soft Electronics from 2011 to 2020.
Kim (Korean surname)
Kim, or 김, written with the Chinese character 金 meaning gold, is the most common Korean surname, held by 21.5 percent of South Koreans in 2015.
Kim (novel)
Kim (1901) is Rudyard Kipling's picaresque masterpiece about Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan in Lahore who accompanies a Tibetan lama and becomes a British spy in the Great Game. Serialized in McClure's Magazine; first editions by Doubleday (New York) and Macmillan (London) in 1901.
Kim (song)
"Kim" is a 2000 Eminem song, track 16 on The Marshall Mathers LP, a fictional murder narrative addressed to his then-wife Kim Mathers and a prequel to "'97 Bonnie & Clyde".
Kim A Rang
Kim A Rang (김아랑, also Kim A-Lang), born 1995 in Seoul, is a South Korean short track speed skater who won women's 3,000 m relay gold at Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018 and silver at Beijing 2022.
Kim A. Eagle
Kim A. Eagle is an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Frankel Cardiovascular Center and founded the aortic dissection registry IRAD in 1996.
Kim Ah-joong (김아중)
Kim Ah-joong (김아중) is a South Korean actress and former model who rose to stardom starring in the 2006 romantic comedy 200 Pounds Beauty, singing its soundtrack herself.
Kim Ah-young
Kim Ah-young (김아영, 金雅永) is a South Korean actress and comedian, famous as the 'clear-eyed maniac' (맑눈광) of SNL Korea seasons 3–6, later an award-winning drama actress in The Judge from Hell and films.