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KM12

KM12 (KM-12, CVCL_1331) is a human colon carcinoma cell line, MSI-high, carrying a TPM3-NTRK1 fusion, entrectinib-sensitive, a member of the NCI-60 and DepMap panels, with WRN as its top dependency.

KM3NeT

KM3NeT (Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope) is a European research infrastructure of deep-sea neutrino detectors in the Mediterranean, operating ARCA off Sicily and ORCA off Toulon, France.

Kmart

Kmart is an American discount department store chain founded in 1962 by the S.S. Kresge Company, which shrank from over 2,100 stores to a handful by 2024.

Kmart Australia

Kmart Australia: Wesfarmers-owned discount department store chain founded 1969 in Burwood, Victoria; 323 stores in Australia and New Zealand; Anko house brand is 85 percent of products; distinct from the unrelated US Kmart.

KMD

KMD (Kausing Much Damage) was a Long Beach, New York hip hop trio (1988–c.1993) of Zev Love X (later MF Doom), DJ Subroc, and Onyx the Birthstone Kid, known for Mr. Hood and the Elektra-shelved Black Bastards.

KMFDM

KMFDM (Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid; also rendered Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit) is a German industrial rock band founded in Paris in 1984 by Sascha Konietzko, known for its 'ultra heavy beat' sound, Wax Trax!/TVT-era hits like 'Juke Joint Jezebel', and albums through Hyëna (2022) and Enemy (2026).

KMGH-TV

KMGH-TV, branded Denver7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Denver, Colorado, that signed on in 1953 as KLZ-TV, became KMGH under McGraw-Hill, and is licensed to Scripps, broadcasting from Lookout Mountain.

Kmoe

kmoe (Kale Moses Itkonen, born 2004) is a Canadian hyperpop/digicore singer-producer from Vancouver, signed to DeadAir Records, known for "Homeswitcher" with Jane Remover and the 2025 debut album K1.

KMOV

KMOV, formerly KMOX-TV, is a CBS-affiliated television station on virtual channel 4 in St. Louis, Missouri, owned by Gray Television and branding its news First Alert 4.

KMS state

A KMS state, also known as a KMS condition, is a state on a C-algebra with time evolution whose analytic boundary condition characterizes thermal equilibrium at inverse temperature beta.

KMT-2020-BLG-0414L

KMT-2020-BLG-0414L is a white dwarf about 4,000 light-years away in Sagittarius, found via microlensing, orbited by the first confirmed terrestrial planet around a white dwarf (1.9 Earth masses, 2.1 au) and a brown dwarf at 22 au.

KMT-2021-BLG-1077L

KMT-2021-BLG-1077L is a Galactic-bulge planetary system 8.24 kpc away, where a 0.14-solar-mass M dwarf hosts two Saturn-mass gas giants at 1.26 and 0.93 AU, the fifth multiplanetary system found by microlensing.

KMT-2022-BLG-1818L

KMT-2022-BLG-1818L is a microlensing two-planet system in Sagittarius: a K-dwarf host about 5300 pc away with a 4-Jupiter-mass super-Jupiter at 2.6 au and a Saturn-class planet, published by Li et al. 2026.

KMT-2024-BLG-0404L

KMT-2024-BLG-0404L is a triple microlensing planetary system about 7.21 kpc away: a Uranus-mass planet orbiting a late M dwarf and brown dwarf binary, found by KMTNet in 2024 and published by Han et al. 2025.

KMT2A

KMT2A (MLL, MLL1, ALL-1, HRX) is a human gene at 11q23.3 encoding an H3K4 histone methyltransferase of COMPASS complexes. Rearranged in ~10% of acute leukemias (>70% of infant cases), it drives leukemia via fusion oncoproteins and is targeted by menin inhibitors such as revumenib.

KMT2C

KMT2C (MLL3) is a human chromosome 7q36.1 gene encoding a 4,911-amino-acid H3K4me1 enhancer methyltransferase of COMPASS/ASCOM complexes, frequently lost in cancers and causing a Kleefstra-spectrum neurodevelopmental disorder when mutated.

KMT2D

KMT2D (MLL2, MLL4) is a human chromosome 12 gene encoding a histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase that monomethylates enhancer H3K4; germline loss causes Kabuki syndrome and somatic mutation recurs in lymphoma.

KN Energies

KN Energies, until January 2024 named Klaipėdos nafta, is a state-controlled Lithuanian energy terminal operator listed on Nasdaq Vilnius that runs the Klaipėda LNG terminal and LNG terminals in Brazil and Germany.

Kn-026

KN026 (anbenitamab, Ennituo, 恩尼妥®) is Alphamab Oncology's CRIB-platform HER2 bispecific antibody targeting domains II and IV, approved in China in May 2026 with chemotherapy for previously treated HER2-positive gastric cancer.

Knack (video game)

Knack is a 2013 action platformer developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony as a PlayStation 4 launch exclusive, directed by PS4 architect Mark Cerny.

Knacker

Knacker: a person or licensed premises (knacker's yard, knackery) that kills and disposes of animals not for human consumption, mainly horses and fallen livestock, producing pet food and by-products; root of British slang "knackered".

Knafeh

Knafeh, also spelled kunafa or kanafeh and known in Turkey as künefe, is a Middle Eastern dessert made with pastry, a cheese or cream filling, and sugar syrup. Versions occur across Palestine,.

Knanaya (ക്നാനായ)

Knanaya (ക്നാനായ), or Thekkumbhagar (Southists), is an endogamous community within Kerala's Saint Thomas Christians, tracing origin to a 345 CE Jewish-Christian migration from Mesopotamia led by Thomas of Cana; split into Syro-Malabar Catholic (Archeparchy of Kottayam) and Jacobite branches.

Knapping

Knapping, most often called flintknapping, is the craft of shaping stone by striking or pressing it so flakes detach, producing sharp-edged tools like projectile points and blades.

Knapsack problem

The knapsack problem, also called the rucksack problem, is a combinatorial optimization problem in which the most valuable items are packed within a fixed capacity, solvable by dynamic programming.

Knaresborough Castle

Knaresborough Castle: medieval royal castle above the River Nidd in North Yorkshire, first recorded 1130, rebuilt under Edward II with the King's Tower, demolished 1648; now a scheduled monument owned by the Duchy of Lancaster.

Knauf family

The Knauf family is a German entrepreneurial family that wholly owns Gebr. Knauf KG, parent of the building-materials group Knauf Gruppe, founded in 1932 in Iphofen, Bavaria.

Knautia

Knautia (scabious) is a Caprifoliaceae genus of about 40-61 herb species native from Europe to Siberia and Central Asia; best known is field scabious (Knautia arvensis), a gynodioecious, ant-dispersed, insect-pollinated perennial prone to hybridisation and polyploidy.

Knaves

Knaves, also grouped with Polignac (jeu des Valets), is a trick-taking card game for 2-6 players, best with three: score 1 point per trick, lose points for captured Jacks (J♥ -4 to J♠ -1), first to 20 wins.

Knavesmire

Knavesmire: open common land in York, part of Micklegate Stray, home of York Racecourse since the first 1731 meeting; formerly the city's Tyburn execution site (late 14th century to 1801).