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Kria
Kria is a family of system-on-modules from AMD for embedded and edge computing, spanning K24 and K26 adaptive SOMs for vision AI and robotics, plus newer AI versions.
Kriangsak Chamanan
Kriangsak Chamanan (เกรียงศักดิ์ ชมะนันทน์) was a Thai army general who served as the 15th prime minister of Thailand from 1977 to 1980, taking power in a coup and resigning in 1980.
Kriegslokomotive
Kriegslokomotive, also known as Kriegslok, is the German wartime steam locomotive designation, above all the class 52 freight locomotive, about 7,000 of which were built from 1942.
Kriegsmarine
Kriegsmarine, the Nazi German navy 1935–1945, formed 21 May 1935; expanded to 35% of Royal Navy strength under the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement, fought the Battle of the Atlantic with U-boats, lost a third of its surface fleet at Norway, dissolved 1945.
Kriegspiel (Chess)
Kriegspiel (chess), a hidden-information chess variant invented by Henry Michael Temple in 1899, where players see only their own pieces and a referee announces legality, captures, and checks; distinct from the 1824 Prussian Kriegsspiel wargame and from Dark Chess.
Kriegsspiel
Kriegsspiel (German for "war game"): the Prussian professional wargame introduced in 1824 by Georg von Reisswitz, played on 1:8,000 maps with an umpire, and the related hidden-information chess variant Kriegspiel.
Kriel power station
Kriel power station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Eskom in Mpumalanga, South Africa, with six 500 MW units giving 3,000 MW capacity.
Kriftel
Kriftel, a municipality in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse, in the FrankfurtRheinMain region; first recorded 790 as 'Cruftera', on the Main-Lahn-Bahn since 1877, about 11,400 residents, known as the 'Obstgarten des Vordertaunus' fruit-growing village.
Kriging
Kriging is a family of geostatistical interpolation techniques that predicts values at unsampled locations as weighted averages of nearby observations, named after mining engineer Danie G. Krige.
Krijn P. de Jong
Krijn P. de Jong, also known as K.P. de Jong, is a Dutch materials chemist and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry and catalysis at Utrecht University, born in 1954.
Krik? Krak!
Krik? Krak! is a 1995 collection of nine short stories by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat, a National Book Award finalist drawn from Haitian oral storytelling.
Krill
Krill are swarming crustacean zooplankton (Euphausiacea); Antarctic krill Euphausia superba, biomass ~380 million tonnes, is the Southern Ocean's key prey and supports a CCAMLR-managed fishery that hit its 620,000-tonne trigger limit in 2025.
Krill fishery
Krill (Euphausia superba) is a central prey of the Southern Ocean food web, commercially harvested by CCAMLR for aquaculture feed. High 2020s catches led to an early closure.
Krill in marine food webs
Krill in marine food webs describes the role of Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean, where krill make up 60% of penguin diets and 75% of seal diets.
Krill oil
Krill oil, an omega-3 supplement from Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) with EPA and DHA bound to phospholipids; lowers triglycerides and cholesterol in trials, shows no proven advantage over fish oil, and is GRAS-notified with FDA no-questions letters.
Krillin (クリリン)
Krillin (クリリン, Kuririn) is Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball character, Goku's monk friend from Orin Temple; name puns on chestnut and Shaolin, debut chapter 25, strongest Earthling.
Krim Belkacem
Krim Belkacem (كريم بلقاسم, 1922–1970) was an Algerian revolutionary commander who co-founded the FLN, led the Kabylie region during the war of independence, and signed the 1962 Évian Accords.
Kriminalroman
Kriminalroman is the German term for a crime novel, colloquially shortened to Krimi, in which a crime, usually a murder, and its investigation stand at the center of the plot.
Kringle
Kringle: an ~80-residue triple-loop, three-disulfide protein domain first found in prothrombin, present in plasminogen, tPA, HGF, and apolipoprotein(a); a lysine-binding module regulating blood clotting, fibrinolysis, and angiogenesis.
Krio language
Krio (Sierra Leonean Krio) is an English-lexifier creole and the lingua franca of Sierra Leone, natively spoken by about 350,000 people (5–10%) in Freetown and used by roughly 97% of the population, with Yoruba, French, Spanish, and Portuguese borrowings.
Krio migration and spread along the West African coast
The Krio migration was the nineteenth-century dispersal of settlers and Liberated Africans from Sierra Leone along the West African coast, from the Gambia to Cameroon.
Kripa (कृप)
Kripa (कृप, Kripacharya), Brahmin warrior in the Mahabharata: son of sage Sharadvan, twin of Kripi, first teacher of the Kuru princes, Kaurava fighter, one of three Kaurava survivors of the Kurukshetra war, later teacher of Parikshit and one of the Chiranjivi immortals.
Kripa K. Varanasi
Kripa K. Varanasi, also known as Kripa Varanasi, is an MIT professor of mechanical engineering known for interfacial science and co-founding LiquiGlide, whose coatings let ketchup flow from bottles.
Kripalu Maharaj
Kripalu Maharaj, also known as Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, was an Indian guru in the Radha Krishna devotional tradition whose followers call him the fifth Jagadguru.
Kripanath Mallah
Kripanath Mallah, born in 1973 in Assam, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Karimganj in the Lok Sabha since 2019, after serving as Deputy Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly.
Kripke semantics
Kripke semantics, also known as relational semantics, is the standard formal semantics for modal logic, in which formulas are evaluated at possible worlds, introduced by Saul Kripke in 1959.
Kripke–Platek set theory
Kripke–Platek set theory (KP) is a weak axiomatic set theory introduced independently by Saul Kripke and Richard Platek in the 1960s; its transitive models are called admissible sets.
Kris
The kris, also spelled keris, is an asymmetrical dagger from Indonesia that serves as both weapon and spiritual object, inscribed by UNESCO on its heritage list in 2008.
Kris (Deltarune)
Kris Dreemurr (クリス・ドリーマー) is the non-binary human protagonist of Toby Fox's RPG Deltarune, controlled by the player through the SOUL, which Kris removes at chapter endings to act independently.
Kris Allen
Kris Allen (Kristopher Neil Allen, born 1985) is an American singer-songwriter from Conway, Arkansas, winner of American Idol season 8 in 2009 over Adam Lambert; known for the platinum single Live Like We're Dying and six studio albums.