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Klondike, Yukon
Klondike, Yukon: region around the Klondike River and Dawson City, homeland of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, site of the 1896 Bonanza Creek gold discovery, the 1896-1898 Klondike Gold Rush, and the 2023 Tr'ondëk-Klondike World Heritage site.
Klong!
Klong! (Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure) is a 2016 deck-building board game by Paul Dennen from Renegade Game Studios and Schwerkraft-Verlag: thieves raid a dragon's dungeon, noise markers trigger dragon attacks, and only escapees score. Mensa Select 2017, Kennerspiel recommendation 2018.
Klonoa
Klonoa (Kaze no Klonoa, "Klonoa of the Wind") is Namco's 2.5D side-scrolling platformer series begun with Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PS1, 1997), followed by Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil (PS2, 2001), a 2008 Wii remake, and the 2022 Phantasy Reverie Series remaster.
Klook (客路) (company)
Klook (客路) is a Hong Kong-based online travel platform for booking tours, attraction tickets, and transport across Asia-Pacific, founded in 2014 and valued above US$1 billion in 2019.
Kloosterman sum
A Kloosterman sum is an exponential sum over invertible residues modulo an integer, introduced by Hendrik Kloosterman in 1926 to represent integers by quaternary quadratic forms.
Klosterneuburg
Klosterneuburg, Lower Austrian Danube town near Vienna, site of the Roman auxiliary fort Arrianis (also proposed: Asturis, Cannabiaca, Quadriburgium) on the Danube Limes, occupied about 70–500 AD, later split from Korneuburg and home to Stift Klosterneuburg.
Klosterneuburg Altarpiece
The Klosterneuburg Altar, usually called the Verdun Altar (Verduner Altar), is a Romanesque enamel altarpiece by Nicholas of Verdun in Klosterneuburg Abbey, Austria, completed in 1181.
Klosters
Klosters, also Klosters-Serneus, is a Prättigau village and resort in Graubünden, Switzerland, founded around the 1222 St. Jakob monastery, settled by Walsers, served by the Rhaetian Railway since 1889, and merged with Saas in 2016.
Kloten
Kloten (Chlotun, c. 1155) is a municipality in canton Zürich, district Bülach, home to Zurich Airport. Roman road junction with a villa rustica (c. AD 50) and a 4th-century castellum; population 18,030 in 2010.
Klotok
A klotok, also spelled kelotok, is a traditional motorized wooden riverboat of Kalimantan, Indonesia, used as everyday transport and as a tour boat in Tanjung Puting National Park.
KLP48
KLP48 (Kuala Lumpur48) is a Malaysian all-female AKB48 sister idol group launched 1 January 2024, based in Kuala Lumpur under 48 Entertainment; debuted August 2024 with a Malay Heavy Rotation, opened its own LaLaport BBCC theater in December 2025.
KLRB1
KLRB1 (CD161, NKR-P1A, CLEC5B) is a human chromosome 12 gene encoding a C-type lectin-like inhibitory/co-signaling receptor on NK and T cells; its ligand is LLT1 (CLEC2D), and it marks innate-like, IL-17-producing T cells.
KLRC1
KLRC1 (NKG2A, CD159a) is a human gene on chromosome 12p13.2 encoding an inhibitory NK-cell receptor that pairs with CD94 to recognize HLA-E; targeted by monalizumab and CRISPR knockout in cancer immunotherapy.
KLRD1
KLRD1 (CD94), killer cell lectin-like receptor D1, a gene at 12p13.2 encoding the invariant CD94 subunit of NK-cell receptors paired with NKG2A (inhibitory) or NKG2C/E (activating) recognizing HLA-E.
KLT (small load carrier)
The KLT, German for Kleinladungsträger, is a standardized reusable plastic container defined by VDA Recommendation 4500 for transporting small parts between automotive manufacturers and suppliers, compatible with Euro pallets and automated handling.
Kluane
Kluane: region of southwest Yukon around Kluane National Park and Reserve and Kluane Lake (Lhù'ààn Mân, largest lake wholly in Yukon). Name from Tlingit 'whitefish country'; part of a UNESCO World Heritage site; 2016 glacier diversion cut the lake's main inflow.
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek, a Canada-USA transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 1979, holds the world's largest non-polar icefield across four parks in Yukon, British Columbia, and Alaska.
Kluane Ice Cap
Kluane Ice Cap, or Kluane Icefields, is the large St. Elias Mountains icefield complex in southwest Yukon's Kluane National Park, covering about 80% of the park, feeding Kaskawulsh Glacier, and losing 20% of glaciated area in 50 years.
Kludge
Kludge, also spelled kluge, is an informal computing and electronics term for an inelegant, patched-together solution that works, popularized by Jackson Granholm's 1962 Datamation article.
Kluft
Kluft is the Dutch variant of the card game Yaniv (Nepali Dhumbal/Jhyap): only the top discard is drawable, jokers never substitute in runs, and a Kluft call can be challenged with Onderkluft for a 15-point penalty.
Klumpke paralysis
Klumpke paralysis (Klumpke's palsy, Dejerine-Klumpke palsy): lower brachial plexus palsy of C8-T1 roots from hyperabduction traction or apical tumor compression, causing claw hand, medial hand sensory loss, and Horner syndrome.
Klungkung
Klungkung (Semarapura) is a regency in eastern Bali and the seat of Bali's last kingdom, founded 1686 by Ida I Dewa Agung Jambe; site of the 1908 Puputan against the Dutch, now 4 kecamatan including Nusa Penida.
Klute
Klute (1971) is Alan J. Pakula's neo-noir psychological thriller starring Jane Fonda, who won the Best Actress Oscar as call girl Bree Daniels, and Donald Sutherland as detective John Klute; first of Pakula's paranoia trilogy.
Klüver–Bucy syndrome
Klüver–Bucy syndrome (KBS), a rare neuropsychiatric disorder from bilateral temporal lobe damage, causes hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperphagia, visual agnosia, hypermetamorphosis, and placidity; first described in monkeys by Klüver and Bucy in 1937.
Kluyveromyces
Kluyveromyces is a genus of six ascomycetous budding yeasts (Van der Walt, 1956), best known for K. lactis and K. marxianus, lactose-assimilating, GRAS/QPS food-grade yeasts used for enzymes, whey bioethanol, and aroma production.
Kluyveromyces marxianus yeast biomass
Kluyveromyces marxianus yeast biomass, cell mass of the thermotolerant, Crabtree-negative dairy yeast K. marxianus grown on whey and other wastes for single-cell protein; FDA GRN 1248 cleared heat-killed biomass up to 20% in foods.
Klymentii Sheptytsky
Klymentii Sheptytsky (Климентій Шептицький), born Kazimir Sheptytsky, was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic archimandrite who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, was named Righteous Among the Nations, and was beatified in 2001.
Klystron
A klystron, also called a klystron tube, is a vacuum tube that amplifies signals at microwave frequencies by velocity-modulating an electron beam, used in radar and particle accelerators.
Km 0
Km. 0 (Kilometer Zero) is a 2000 Spanish ensemble comedy by Juan Luis Iborra and Yolanda García Serrano, in which fourteen strangers meet mistaken dates at Madrid's Puerta del Sol; 194,883 Spanish admissions and a 2001 Goya song nomination.
KM-SAM
KM-SAM, also known as Cheongung or M-SAM, is a South Korean medium-range surface-to-air missile system developed with Russian radar technology, in service since 2015 and exported to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.