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Klimov VK-2500

The Klimov VK-2500 (ВК-2500) is a Russian turboshaft engine for medium helicopters, developed by Klimov in Saint Petersburg from the TV3-117 and powering Mi-8, Mi-28, and Ka-52 helicopters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

KNDS France

KNDS France, formerly Nexter Systems, is the French land-defense manufacturer based at Versailles, known for the CAESAR howitzer and Scorpion vehicles and serving as France's combat-vehicle integrator.

Knelson concentrator

The Knelson concentrator is a vertical centrifugal gravity separator developed by Byron Knelson in Canada, commercialized in 1980, that recovers free gold and platinum group minerals from mining feed.

Knewton

Knewton is an American adaptive learning technology company founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York City, best known for Knewton Alta, its adaptive higher-education courseware platform.

Knife

A knife is a tool or weapon with a sharp-edged blade, typically of metal or ceramic, attached to a handle, used to cut, slice, chop, scrape, or pierce.

Knifefish (UUV)

Knifefish is a mine countermeasure unmanned undersea vehicle developed by General Dynamics Mission Systems for the United States Navy to detect, classify, and identify buried, bottom, and volume mines.

Knight's Armament Company

Knight's Armament Company (KAC) is a firearms manufacturer in Titusville, Florida, a leading supplier of sniper rifles, rail systems, and suppressors to US special operations forces.

Knightly sword

The knightly sword, often called the arming sword, is the straight, double-edged, single-handed sword carried by mounted warriors in western Europe from roughly the 10th to the 15th century.

Knightscope

Knightscope, Inc. is an American security technology company in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2013 by William Santana Li and Stacy Dean Stephens, known for the K5 Autonomous Security Robot.

KNIME

KNIME (Konstanz Information Miner) is a free, open-source analytics platform, developed at the University of Konstanz, where users build data science work as visual workflows of nodes.

Knitro

Knitro, also sold as Artelys Knitro, is a commercial library for nonlinear optimization that originated at Northwestern University in the 1990s under Jorge Nocedal and is now developed by Artelys.

Knob-and-tube wiring

Knob-and-tube wiring, often shortened to K&T, is an early residential wiring method using porcelain knobs and tubes, standard in North America from the 1880s to the 1940s.

Knock control

Knock control is the closed-loop regulation of spark timing in spark ignition engines, retarding ignition when knock is detected to run close to the efficiency limit.