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Kresling pattern

The Kresling pattern, developed by Biruta Kresling from paper experiments on twisted tubes, is a cylindrical origami pattern used in deployable structures, metamaterials, and soft robotics.

KRI Balaputradewa

KRI Balaputradewa (322) is an Indonesian frigate, the lead ship of the Merah Putih class, launched in December 2025 as the first large surface combatant built in Indonesia.

KRI Gajah Mada

KRI Gajah Mada, also spelled Gadjah Mada, is the name of two ships of the Indonesian Navy, named after Gajah Mada, the 14th-century military leader of the Majapahit empire.

KRI Nanggala (402)

KRI Nanggala (402), also known as Nanggala II, was an Indonesian Navy Type 209 attack submarine that sank with all 53 aboard in April 2021.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Krishan K. Ahuja

Krishan K. Ahuja is a Regents Professor at Georgia Tech's aerospace school who studies and reduces jet engine noise, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Krishna Janmasthan Temple Complex

The Krishna Janmasthan Temple Complex, also known as Krishna Janmabhoomi, is a group of Hindu temples in Mathura, India, built around the site believed to be Krishna's birthplace.

Krishna Raja Sagara (ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜಸಾಗರ)

Krishna Raja Sagara, or KRS dam, is a masonry dam on the Kaveri river at Kannambadi, Karnataka, India, built under Sir M. Visvesvaraya between 1911 and 1932.

Krishnakumar Garikipati

Krishnakumar (Krishna) Garikipati is a computational mechanician who joined the University of Southern California in 2024 after two decades at Michigan, and won the PECASE and DOE Early Career awards.

KRISO

KRISO, the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (선박해양플랜트연구소), is a South Korean research institute for ships and offshore plants, founded in 1973 and headquartered in Daejeon.

KRISS Vector

The KRISS Vector, also known as the TDI Super V, is a family of pistol-caliber submachine guns, carbines, and pistols first sold in 2008 by TDI.

Krista Lagus

Krista Lagus is a Finnish artificial intelligence and natural language processing researcher, professor of digital social science at the University of Helsinki, known for the WEBSOM document maps and Morfessor morphology models.

Kristala L. J. Prather

Kristala L. J. Prather is an American chemical engineer at MIT known for metabolic engineering, including the metabolite valve, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Kristall (ISS module)

Kristall (Кристалл, "crystal") was a technology module of the Russian Mir space station, launched in May 1990 for materials processing in microgravity and used for the first Space Shuttle docking in 1995.

Kristen Grauman

Kristen Grauman is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for visual recognition, egocentric perception, and the Ego4D dataset.

Kristen Nygaard

Kristen Nygaard (1926–2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist who, with Ole-Johan Dahl, designed the Simula languages and introduced objects, classes, and inheritance, earning the 2001 Turing Award.

Kristi Anseth

Kristi Anseth is an American chemical engineer and biomaterials scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies photopolymerizable hydrogels for growing cells in 3D.

Kristin C. Lewis

Kristin C. Lewis is a transportation scientist and Principal Technical Advisor for aviation fuels at the U.S. DOT Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a PECASE recipient.

Kristin Myers

Kristin Myers is an American mechanical engineer and Associate Professor at Columbia University who studies how the cervix and uterus remodel during pregnancy, work linked to preterm birth research.

Kristin Oil and Gas Field

Kristin is a gas and condensate field in the Norwegian Sea, southwest of Åsgard, operated by Equinor since 2005 from an HPHT reservoir about 4,600 meters deep.

Krita

Krita is a free, open-source raster graphics application for digital painting and 2D animation, built on KDE and Qt and known for its brush engines, HDR color support, and PSD file compatibility.

Krivak-class frigate

The Krivak-class frigate, Soviet designation Project 1135 Burevestnik (Буревестник, "storm petrel"), is a series of Soviet and Russian guided-missile frigates built primarily for anti-submarine warfare from 1970 onward.

Krk LNG terminal

The Krk LNG terminal is a floating liquefied natural gas import terminal at Omišalj on the Croatian island of Krk, commercially commissioned on 1 January 2021.

Kroger Field

Kroger Field, formerly Commonwealth Stadium, is the on-campus football stadium of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, home of the Kentucky Wildcats since 1973 and renamed for Kroger in 2017.

Kroll process

The Kroll process, developed by William Kroll in the 1940s, is an industrial method that reduces titanium tetrachloride with molten magnesium to produce titanium sponge.

Kromek D3S

The Kromek D3S is a belt-worn, networked radiation detector by Kromek Group that combines gamma spectroscopy and neutron detection, developed under DARPA's SIGMA program and used in over forty countries.