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Kotex
Kotex is a brand of sanitary pads, liners, and tampons owned by Kimberly-Clark. Launched in 1920, it was the first mass-marketed disposable sanitary napkin in the United States.
Kothagudem Thermal Power Station
Kothagudem Thermal Power Station (KTPS) is a coal-fired power station at Paloncha in Telangana, India, run by TSGENCO, with an operating capacity of 1,800 MW.
Kotilingeshwara (ಕೋಟಿಲಿಂಗೇಶ್ವರ)
Kotilingeshwara is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva in Kammasandra village in Kolar district, Karnataka, India, begun in 1980, with a 108-foot linga and millions of smaller ones.
Kotlin (programming language)
Kotlin is a general-purpose programming language developed by JetBrains that compiles to the JVM, JavaScript, and native binaries. It is known for its null safety and Java interoperability.
Kotlin Multiplatform
Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) is an open-source technology from JetBrains for writing Kotlin code once and compiling it for Android, iOS, desktop, web, and server, officially supported by Google since 2024.
Kotoka International Airport
Kotoka International Airport, also called Accra Airport, is Ghana's principal international airport in Accra, opened in 1958 and renamed Accra International Airport by government decision in 2026.
Kōtoku-in (高徳院)
Kōtoku-in (高徳院), formally Daiizan Kōtokuin Shōjōsen-ji, is a Jōdo-shū Pure Land temple in Hase, Kamakura, home to the National Treasure bronze Great Buddha of Kamakura, an 11.3 m Amida statue cast from 1252 that has stood in the open air since its hall was destroyed in 1498.
Kotri Barrage
Kotri Barrage, also known as the Ghulam Muhammad Barrage, is a gate-controlled barrage across the Indus River near Hyderabad, Pakistan, built between 1950 and 1955.
Kou crack susceptibility index
The Kou crack susceptibility index, proposed by Sindo Kou in 2015, measures an alloy's tendency to crack during solidification and ranks alloys for welding, casting, and additive manufacturing.
Koudiet Eddraouch power plant
Koudiet Eddraouch power plant (محطة كهرباء كدية الدراوش) is a 1,200 MW combined-cycle gas-fired power station at Berrihane in El Tarf province, northeastern Algeria, opened in 2012.
Kounotori 7
Kounotori 7, also designated HTV-7, was the seventh flight of Japan's unpiloted HTV cargo spacecraft, launched in September 2018 to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh is an Australian materials scientist and professor at the University of Sydney whose laboratory invented a swallowable capsule that senses gases in the gut.
Kovar
Kovar is an iron-nickel-cobalt controlled-expansion alloy, about 29% nickel and 17% cobalt, invented in 1936 and used for hermetic glass-to-metal seals in vacuum tubes, transistors, and semiconductor packages.
Kovykta Gas and Condensate Field
Kovykta Gas and Condensate Field (Ковыктинское месторождение) is a giant gas field in the Irkutsk Region of East Siberia, feeding Gazprom's Power of Siberia pipeline to China.
Koyna Dam
The Koyna Dam is a gravity dam on the Koyna River in Satara district, Maharashtra, completed in 1961 to anchor a 1,960 MW hydroelectric project.
Koyna Hydroelectric Project
The Koyna Hydroelectric Project is a four-stage, 1,920 MW hydroelectric scheme on the Koyna River in Maharashtra, India, with underground power houses near Pophali, commissioned from 1962 and known for the 1967 earthquake.
Kozak (armored personnel carrier)
Kozak (Козак, "Cossack") is a Ukrainian family of 4x4 wheeled armored vehicles built by Praktika of Kyiv, in service with Ukraine's armed forces since the Kozak-2 of 2016.
Kozienice power station
Kozienice power station (Polish: Elektrownia Kozienice) is a hard-coal-fired power plant near Kozienice in central Poland, owned by Enea Wytwarzanie and the second largest power plant in Poland.
Kozloduy nuclear power plant
The Kozloduy nuclear power plant (АЕЦ "Козлодуй") is Bulgaria's only nuclear power station, on the Danube river in northwest Bulgaria. Its two operating reactors supply more than a third of the country's electricity.
KPConv
KPConv, short for Kernel Point Convolution, is a convolution operator for 3D point clouds introduced in 2019 that places its weights at kernel points, in rigid and deformable variants.
KPIT Technologies
KPIT Technologies Limited, formerly KPIT Cummins Infosystems, is a Pune-headquartered Indian technology company focused on automotive and mobility software, with over 20 million vehicles running its software worldwide.
KPLO (Danuri)
KPLO, also known as Danuri (다누리) and formally the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, is South Korea's first robotic lunar probe, launched in 2022 with NASA as a partner.
KPLR-TV
KPLR-TV, branded STL 11 and The CW St. Louis, is a CW-affiliated television station in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1959 as the city's first VHF independent station, it is now owned by Nexstar Media Group.
KPN
KPN, formally Royal KPN N.V. (Koninklijke KPN N.V.), is the largest telecom and IT provider in the Netherlands, headquartered in The Hague and serving consumers, businesses, and other operators.
KPNQwest
KPNQwest was a pan-European data communications carrier and Internet service provider, formed in 1998 as a joint venture of KPN and Qwest, bankrupt in 2002.
KPV heavy machine gun
The KPV heavy machine gun (КПВ) is a Soviet 14.5×114 mm weapon designed by Semyon Vladimirov, adopted in 1949 and still serving as the KPVT.
KQED (TV)
KQED is a non-commercial educational television station in San Francisco, California, affiliated with PBS. It went on the air in 1954 and serves the San Francisco Bay Area as the flagship of KQED Inc.
Kra Isthmus land bridge and tunnel proposals
The Kra Isthmus land bridge is a proposed Thai logistics corridor moving cargo by rail and road between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand instead of a canal.
Krafla Power Station
Krafla Power Station (Kraflavirkjun) is a 60 MW geothermal power station in the Krafla caldera near Lake Mývatn in northeastern Iceland, the first large-scale geothermal plant in Iceland.
Kraft black liquor
Kraft black liquor is the alkaline spent cooking liquid left after kraft pulping of wood, burned in a recovery boiler to regenerate chemicals and generate steam.