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Kirill Alexandrov
Kirill Alexandrov is an Australian molecular and synthetic biologist, CSIRO-QUT Inaugural Professor of Synthetic Biology at Queensland University of Technology since 2018, working on protein switches and diagnostics.
Kirin Beverage
Kirin Beverage is the soft drink subsidiary of Japan's Kirin Holdings, responsible for producing non-alcoholic beverages and operating one of Japan's largest vending machine networks through its subsidiary Value Vendor Company.
Kirinskoye Gas and Condensate Field
The Kirinskoye gas and condensate field (Киринское газоконденсатное месторождение) is an offshore Gazprom field off Sakhalin Island, discovered in 1992 and the site of Russia's first subsea gas production system.
Kirishi GRES power station
Kirishi GRES (Киришская ГРЭС, Kirishskaya GRES) is a large gas-fired thermal power station in Kirishi, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, the largest in the country's Northwest region.
Kirkendall effect
The Kirkendall effect is the motion of the interface between two contacting solids when their atoms diffuse at different rates, first shown in copper-zinc diffusion couples by Ernest Kirkendall in 1947.
Kirkstall Abbey
Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall, Leeds, founded in 1152 by monks from Fountains Abbey, with its church still standing almost to roof height.
Kirkuk Oil Field
The Kirkuk Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field near Kirkuk in northeastern Iraq, discovered in 1927 and producing since 1934 from shallow limestone.
Kirkuk-Baniyas Oil Pipelines
The Kirkuk-Baniyas pipeline is a crude oil pipeline running from Iraq's Kirkuk oil field to the Syrian Mediterranean port of Baniyas, completed by the Iraq Petroleum Company in 1952.
Kirlian photography
Kirlian photography is a technique that records the glow of a corona discharge around an object on a high-voltage plate, developed by the Kirlians in the Soviet Union.
Kirloskar Group
The Kirloskar Group is an Indian engineering conglomerate founded by Laxmanrao Kirloskar in 1888 as a bicycle repair shop in Belgaum, Karnataka, that manufactures pumps, diesel engines, and compressors.
Kiro (AWS)
Kiro is an agentic integrated development environment from Amazon Web Services that turns prompts into structured specifications before generating code, launched in preview in July 2025.
KIRO-TV
KIRO-TV, also known as Kiro 7, is a CBS-affiliated television station in Seattle, Washington, broadcasting on channel 7 since February 1958 and owned by Cox Media Group since 1997.
Kirov-class battlecruiser
The Kirov class, Project 1144 Orlan, is a class of four nuclear-powered Soviet heavy missile cruisers built in Leningrad, the largest warships after aircraft carriers since World War II.
Kirov-class cruiser
The Kirov class, Soviet designation Project 1144 Orlan, is a class of four nuclear-powered guided-missile cruisers built for the Soviet Navy from 1973 to 1996.
Kirova Coal Mine
The Kirova Coal Mine, formally the S. M. Kirov Mine, is an underground coal mine in Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Russia, opened in 1935 and owned by SUEK-Kuzbass.
Kirsi K. Tikka
Kirsi K. Tikka is a Finnish-born naval architect and maritime-safety engineer who retired in 2019 as a senior ABS executive and was elected a US National Academy of Engineering Foreign Member.
Kirtland Air Force Base
Kirtland Air Force Base, also known as Kirtland AFB, is a US Air Force base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, home to nuclear-weapons research and special-operations training.
Kirtland Temple
The Kirtland Temple, built by Latter-day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, from 1833 to 1836, was the first temple of the Latter Day Saint movement, dedicated in 1836.
Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran
Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran is an electrical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who researches high-power-density electric machines and superconducting machinery for aircraft propulsion, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Kish Oil and Gas Field
The Kish Oil and Gas Field is a giant offshore gas field beneath Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, discovered by Iran's national oil company in 2006.
KISS principle
The KISS principle, "Keep It Simple, Stupid", is a design principle credited to Lockheed engineer Kelly Johnson, holding that systems work best when kept simple.
Kissanje Oil Field
The Kissanje Oil Field is a deepwater oil field in Angola Block 15, about 322 kilometers northwest of Luanda, discovered in 1998 and produced through the Kizomba B FPSO since 2005.
Kisuk Kang
Kisuk Kang is a South Korean materials scientist who has been a professor at Seoul National University since 2011, known for battery cathode design and oxygen-redox chemistry.
Kit car
A kit car is an automobile sold as a set of parts for the buyer to assemble, ranging from complete packages to body-and-chassis sets needing a donor vehicle.
KIT Motion-Language Dataset
The KIT Motion-Language Dataset (KIT-ML) is a public collection of 3,911 human motion capture recordings with crowdsourced language descriptions, created at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2016.
Kitchen hood
A kitchen hood, commonly called a range hood, is a fan device above a stove or cooktop that captures smoke, grease, odors, and moisture, venting them outdoors or filtering and recirculating the air.
Kitchen scale
A kitchen scale is a weighing device used to measure recipe ingredients accurately, sold in mechanical and digital forms, with digital models adding a tare function for weighing several ingredients in one bowl.
KitchenAid
KitchenAid is an American home appliance brand owned by Whirlpool Corporation, best known for its stand mixer, which it has sold since 1919. It began as a division of Hobart.
Kitimat aluminium smelter
The Kitimat aluminum smelter, now Rio Tinto's BC Works, is a primary aluminum smelter at Kitimat, British Columbia, built by Alcan and producing first metal in 1954.
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Kitt Peak National Observatory, also known as Kitt Peak Observatory, is a U.S. national astronomical observatory founded in 1958 on Kitt Peak in southern Arizona near Tucson.