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Kline Hill Partners

Kline Hill Partners is a private equity secondaries firm founded in 2015 in Greenwich, Connecticut, buying existing fund and company stakes rather than making primary investments.

Kline Hill Partners Solutions

Kline Hill Partners Solutions is a series of private equity secondaries funds backing GP-led transactions, managed by Kline Hill Partners, a Greenwich, Connecticut firm founded in 2015.

Klinefelter syndrome

Klinefelter syndrome (47,XXY, XXY syndrome) is a chromosomal condition in males with an extra X chromosome, causing small testes, low testosterone, infertility, and tall stature; 50-75% of cases go undiagnosed.

Kling (可灵)

Kling (可灵) is a family of text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-editing AI models developed by the Chinese short-video company Kuaishou Technology, first released for beta testing in June 2024.

Kling 3.0

Kling 3.0 is a video generation model series from the Chinese company Kuaishou, released February 5, 2026, adding multi-shot storytelling, native multilingual audio, and 15-second clips.

Kling AI (product)

Kling AI is the consumer and developer platform built on Kuaishou's Kling video- and image-generation models, launched in beta in June 2024 and offered internationally at kling.ai.

Kling AI (可灵)

Kling AI (可灵) is a multimodal video generation model developed by the Chinese platform company Kuaishou Technology, officially launched in June 2024 and released in rapid successive versions.

Klingande

Klingande is the stage name of Cédric Steinmyller, a French DJ and producer of melodic and tropical house, best known for the 2013 hit "Jubel".

Klingon

Klingon (tlhIngan Hol) is a constructed language created by linguist Marc Okrand in 1984 for Star Trek's Klingons, with OVS word order, an agglutinative grammar, The Klingon Dictionary as canon, and a real speaker community organized by the Klingon Language Institute.

Klingon grammar

Klingon grammar: the grammatical system of tlhIngan Hol, created by linguist Marc Okrand in 1984 for Star Trek, with OVS word order, prefixed verbs, and five fixed-order noun suffix classes described in The Klingon Dictionary.

Klingon language

Klingon (tlhIngan-Hol), ISO code tlh, is a constructed language created by linguist Marc Okrand for Star Trek in 1984, with OVS word order, a few thousand words, and a small fluent community organized around the Klingon Language Institute.

Klingon Language Institute

The Klingon Language Institute (KLI), founded by Lawrence Schoen in 1992, is a nonprofit promoting the Klingon language; it published HolQeD, runs the KLCP certification and the annual qep'a' conference, and issues Klingon translations.

Klio family

Klio family, inner main-belt collisional family of primitive low-albedo C-complex asteroids from parent (84) Klio; 330 members, visible-heterogeneous but NIR-homogeneous, CM2-like phyllosilicates, unlikely source of Bennu or Ryugu.

Klippel–Feil syndrome

Klippel–Feil syndrome (KFS), or congenital cervical vertebral fusion, is a rare disorder fusing two or more neck vertebrae; classic triad of short neck, low hairline, limited motion; genes GDF6, GDF3, MEOX1.

Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome

Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome (KTS), also called angio-osteohypertrophy syndrome, is a rare congenital low-flow vascular malformation disorder with port-wine stains, venous malformations, and limb overgrowth, caused by somatic PIK3CA mutations within PROS.

Klipper (firmware)

Klipper is a free, open-source 3D printer firmware created by Kevin O'Connor in 2016 that splits a printer's work between a host computer and its micro-controllers.

Klipsch Audio Technologies

Klipsch Audio Technologies is an American loudspeaker manufacturer founded in Hope, Arkansas in 1946 by Paul W. Klipsch, known for horn-loaded designs like the Klipschorn.

Klipspruit Coal Mine

Klipspruit Coal Mine, also known as Klipspruit Colliery, is a South African coal mine near Ogies, Mpumalanga, opened in 2006 and owned by Seriti Resources.

Klismaphilia

Klismaphilia (also klysmaphilia) is a paraphilia of sexual arousal from receiving or administering enemas, coined by psychiatrist Joanne Denko in 1973; classified under DSM-5 other specified paraphilic disorder, with reported fatal risk from rectal alcohol enemas.

Klitschko brothers

Klitschko brothers: Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian heavyweight boxers, first brothers to hold world heavyweight titles simultaneously and all major belts in 2011; Vitali later mayor of Kyiv.

KLM

KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, Royal Dutch Airlines) is the Netherlands' airline, founded in 1919, the world's oldest under its original name, and a subsidiary of Air France–KLM since 2004.

KLM Cityhopper

KLM Cityhopper is the regional airline of the Dutch carrier KLM, based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Formed in 1991, it feeds European passengers into KLM's intercontinental hub.

KLM protocol

The KLM protocol is a 2001 scheme for quantum computation using only linear optical elements, single-photon sources, and photo-detectors, proposed by Knill, Laflamme, and Milburn in a Nature paper.

KLO

Klo is the stage name of Kait Clinard, a Texas-born, Los Angeles-based DJ and producer in UK garage and 140 bass music, booked at EDC Las Vegas and Lollapalooza in 2026.

Klodia

Klodia (كلوديا) is a feminine given name and rare surname, a variant of Claudia or Clodia used mostly by Christian Arabs; also an Italian strawberry variety, and the name of artist Klodia Hanna and mask maker Klodia Gossiaux.

Klodiana Spahiu

Klodiana Spahiu is an Albanian politician and physician of the Socialist Party, Minister of Health and Social Welfare since 2026 and a former Deputy Speaker of Parliament.

Kloepper

Kloepper is a four-player trick-taking card game from Columbia, Illinois, USA, a relative of Sheepshead in the Schafkopf family, using a 24-card pack with black queens, jacks, and diamonds as trumps.

Klondike (solitaire)

Klondike solitaire, the seven-column, four-foundation patience game bundled as Windows Solitaire since 1990; draw-1 and draw-3 variants, 81.945% thoughtful winnability, Vegas scoring, and history.

Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush: 1896-1898 stampede to placer gold near the Klondike River, Yukon, discovered by Skookum Jim, Dawson Charlie, and George Carmack; about 100,000 set out via Chilkoot and White Pass to Dawson City.

Klondike Highway

The Klondike Highway runs from Skagway, Alaska, north through British Columbia and Yukon to Whitehorse and Dawson City, largely following the route of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush prospecting trails.