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Kappa Beta Phi (Κάππα Βήτα Φι)
Kappa Beta Phi (ΚΒΦ) is a secret society whose letters transpose Phi Beta Kappa. Founded as a 1920s campus drinking society, it survives as a single Wall Street chapter of financial executives, exposed by Kevin Roose in 2012.
Kappa Cancri
Kappa Cancri (κ Cnc) is a chemically peculiar mercury-manganese star in the constellation Cancer, once a single-lined spectroscopic binary until its faint secondary star was detected in the late 1990s.
Kappa casein
Kappa-casein (κ-casein), the CSN3-encoded calcium-insensitive milk casein, stabilizes casein micelles via its hydrophilic C-terminal brush; chymosin cleavage at Phe105-Met106 triggers coagulation, and the B variant improves cheese yield.
Kappa Cassiopeiae
Kappa Cassiopeiae (κ Cas), officially named Cexing, is a massive blue supergiant in Cassiopeia, visible to the naked eye, with a giant infrared bow shock imaged by Spitzer.
Kappa Draconis
Kappa Draconis (κ Dra) is a bright Be star in Draco, a rotating B-type giant in a spectroscopic binary and a former near-north pole star.
Kappa FuturFestival
Kappa FuturFestival is an annual techno and house music festival held each July at Parco Dora in Turin, Italy, which drew 120,000 attendees in 2025 and ranked 6th in DJ Mag's Top 100 Festivals poll.
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma (ΚΚΓ), a women's fraternity founded October 13, 1870 at Monmouth College, Illinois; NPC member with 138 chapters, 342,000+ initiated members, blue colors, The Key magazine, Dublin Ohio headquarters.
Kappa opioid receptor
Kappa opioid receptor (KOR, Oprk1), a GPCR of the opioid receptor family bound by dynorphins; cloned 1993; mediates analgesia but dysphoria; nalfurafine is the sole marketed selective agonist.
Kappa Orionis
Kappa Orionis, better known by its proper name Saiph, is a blue supergiant about 650 light-years from Earth that marks the southeast corner of the constellation Orion.
Kappa Sigma
Kappa Sigma (ΚΣ) is a men's college social fraternity founded December 10, 1869 at 46 East Lawn, University of Virginia, by five students including William Grigsby McCormick; it claims to be the world's largest college social fraternity, with headquarters in Charlottesville.
Kappa1 Ceti
Kappa1 Ceti is a nearby G-type dwarf star in Cetus, about 30 light-years away, whose rapid rotation and strong flares make it a proxy for the young Sun.
Kappal (கப்பல்)
Kappal (கப்பல்) is a 2014 Tamil romantic comedy directed by debutant Karthik G. Krish, Shankar's former assistant, starring Vaibhav and Sonam Bajwa. Released 25 December 2014 by S Pictures, music by Natarajan Sankaran, Telugu dub Pandavullo Okadu.
Kappalottiya Thamizhan (கப்பலோட்டிய தமிழன்)
Kappalottiya Thamizhan (கப்பலோட்டிய தமிழன்) is a 1961 Tamil biographical film by B. R. Panthulu starring Sivaji Ganesan as V. O. Chidambaram Pillai; it won the President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Tamil.
Kappaphycus alvarezii
Kappaphycus alvarezii, once known as Eucheuma cottonii and called elkhorn sea moss, is a tropical red alga farmed as the world's principal source of kappa-carrageenan, used in foods.
Kappei Yamaguchi (山口勝平)
Kappei Yamaguchi (山口勝平), born 1965 in Fukuoka, is a Japanese voice actor and stage actor, president of agency Gokū, known as Ranma Saotome, Shinichi Kudo/Kaito Kid, Inuyasha, Usopp, and L.
Kappela (കപ്പേല)
Kappela (കപ്പേള), 2020 Malayalam romantic thriller, Muhammed Musthafa's directorial debut, starring Anna Ben, Roshan Mathew, Sreenath Bhasi; wrong-number phone romance derailed in Kozhikode; Netflix from June 2020; remade as Butta Bomma.
Kappitaka
Kappitaka (कप्पिटक) was a thera, an elder of the early Buddhist Sangha, remembered as the preceptor of Upāli, who decided Vinaya questions at the Rājagaha Council.
Kapre
Kapre, a Philippine folklore giant: dark, hairy, cigar-smoking tree dweller (balete, acacia). Name from Arabic kafir via Spanish cafre; first documented 1906; related to Pugot and Agta; appears in Trese and Forgotten Island.
Kaprekar number
A Kaprekar number is a positive integer whose square can be split into two parts that add up to the original number, such as 45.
Kaprun disaster
The Kaprun disaster, also called the Kaprun funicular fire, was a tunnel fire on 11 November 2000 in Austria that killed 155 people and left 12 survivors.
KAPS (pipeline system)
KAPS, short for Key Access Pipeline System, is a natural gas liquids and condensate pipeline in Alberta, Canada, running about 575 kilometers and placed in service in 2023.
Kapsalon
Kapsalon: a Dutch takeaway dish invented in Rotterdam in 2003, fries topped with shoarma or döner meat, melted Gouda, salad, garlic sauce, and sambal in an aluminium tray, named after hairdresser Nataniël Gomes.
Kapsan faction incident
Kapsan faction incident (갑산파 숙청): the 1967 North Korean purge of Pak Geumcheol and former Kapsan Operations Committee members, followed by Kim Il-sung's monolithic ideological system; distinct from the 1953 Pak Hon-yong purge.
Kapsula Kosmosa
Kapsula Kosmosa (Russian for "Cosmos capsule") was the catalog name for the autonomous Nauka science modules carried piggyback on Zenit-2M reconnaissance satellites between 1968 and 1979, cast off to run experiments before the host's retro-fire.
Kaptaan (TV Series)
Kaptaan (कप्तान) is a 2026 Hindi crime thriller series directed by Jatin Satish Wagle for Amazon MX Player, starring Saqib Saleem as SSP Samardeep in fictional Jwalabad; 8 episodes, IMDb 6.0/10, distinct from the Tamil series Kaattaan.
Kaptai Dam (কাপ্তাই বাঁধ)
Kaptai Dam (কাপ্তাই বাঁধ) is an earth-fill hydroelectric dam on the Karnaphuli River in Bangladesh, built between 1957 and 1962; it created Kaptai Lake, the country's largest man-made lake, and remains Bangladesh's only hydroelectric power station.
Kapteyn's Star
Kapteyn's Star (VZ Pictoris) is a red subdwarf 12.8 light-years away in Pictor, the nearest halo star to the Sun, known for its very large proper motion.
Kaptin
Kaptin (KPTN, 2E4, KICS4) is a human actin-binding protein on chromosome 19q13.32 that caps actin filament barbed ends via Arg59 and, as a KICSTOR complex component, regulates mTORC1; biallelic mutations cause intellectual disability, macrocephaly, and seizures.
Kapton
Kapton is a polyimide film developed by DuPont in 1965, used for flexible circuits, wire insulation, and spacecraft thermal blankets across temperatures from −269 to 400 °C.
Kapu (caste)
Kapu is a grouping of agrarian castes, historically a Telugu term for peasants, found mainly in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and known for its campaign for Backward Class reservation.