(Main list of acronyms)
__NOTOC__ k – (s) kilo- K – (s) kelvin – potassium (Latin kalium) – tanker (aircraft designation code)
K0–9 K9 – (p) Canine police unit
KA ka – (s) Georgian language (ISO 639-1 code) kA – (s) kiloampere Ka – (s) Kamov Design Bureau KA – (i) knowledge acquisition – (s) Karnataka (Indian state code) KAF – (i/a) Kandahar Air Field KAGB (German law) – (i) Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch or the German Capital Investment Code kal – (s) Kalaallisut language (ISO 639-2 code) kan – (s) Kannada language (ISO 639-2 code) KANUKOKA – (a) Kalaallit Nunaanni Kommunit Kattuffiannit (Kalaallisut, "Greenlandic Communities Association") KARNAC – (a) Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context KARR – (a) Knight automated roving robot (Knight Rider character) kas – (s) Kashmiri language (ISO 639-2 code) kat – (s) Georgian language (ISO 639-2 code) KATUSA – (a) Korean augmentation to United States Army kau – (s) Kanuri language (ISO 639-2 code) kaz – (s) Kazakh language (ISO 639-2 code) KAZ – (s) Kazakhstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
KB KBE – (i) Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBO – (i) Kuiper Belt Object KBVB – (i) Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond (Dutch for Royal Belgian Football Association)
KC kC – (s) kilocoulomb KCK (i) Kansas City, Kansas Koma Civakên Kurdistan (Kurdish, "Union of Communities in Kurdistan") KCL – (i) King's College London KCMO – (p) Kansas City, Missouri (pronounced "K-C-Moe") KCN - (s) potassium cyanide KCS – (s) Kansas City Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark)
KD KD – (i) Kawasaki disease – Kraft Dinner
KE KE (s) Kenya (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) (i) kinetic energy knowledge engineering KEDO – (a) Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization KEN – (s) Kenya (ISO 3166 trigram) KERA – (a) Kentucky Education Reform Act (of 1990) kerma – (p) kinetic energy released in material / in matter / per unit mass KERS - (a) kinetic energy recovery system (pronounced Kah-Z) KES (s) Kenyan shilling (ISO 4217 currency code) (i) Killer Elite Squad (Japanese professional wrestling stable) KESR – (i) Kent and East Sussex Railway KET (i) Kentucky Educational Television (a) Key English Test
KF kF – (s) kilofarad KFC – (i) Kentucky Fried Chicken KFOR – (p) UN Kosovo Force KFUPM – King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
KG kg – (s) kilogram – Kongo language (ISO 639-1 code) KG (s) Kyrgyzstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) (s) Knight of the Order of the Garter KGB – (i) Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Russian "Committee for State Security") (1954–1991) KGO – Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover KGS – (s) Kyrgyz som (ISO 4217 currency code) KGZ – (s) Kyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
KH kH – (s) kilohenry KH – (s) Cambodia (ISO 3166 digram) khm – (s) Khmer language (ISO 639-2 code) KHL – (i) Kontinental Hockey League KHM – (s) Cambodia (ISO 3166 trigram) KHP — (s) Honorary Physician to the King (UK) KHR – (s) Cambodian riel (ISO 4217 currency code) KHz – (s) kilohertz
KI ki – (s) Gikuyu language (ISO 639-1 code) Ki – (s) Kibi KI – (s) Kiribati (ISO 3166 digram) KIA – (i) killed in action kik – (s) Gikuyu language (ISO 639-2 code), common typo for LOL kin – (s) Kinyarwanda language (ISO 639-2 code) kir – (s) Kyrgyz language (ISO 639-2 code) KIR – (s) Kiribati (ISO 3166 trigram) KISS – (a) keep it simple, stupid / keep it short and simple – Korean Intelligence Support System KITECH – (p) Korean Institute of Industrial Technology KITT – (a) Knight Industries Two Thousand – Knight Industries Three Thousand
KJ kj – (s) Kuanyama language (ISO 639-1 code) kJ – (s) kilojoule
KK kk – (s) Kazakh language (ISO 639-1 code) kK – (s) kilokelvin KK (i) Kabushiki kaisha (Japanese for "stock company", found in the legal names of countless Japanese corporations) Košarkarski klub (Slovenian), Košarkaški Klub (Croatian and Serbian in Latin script), Кошаркашки клуб (Serbian Cyrillic), Krepšinio Klubas (Lithuanian); all mean "Basketball Club", as in KK Olimpija, KK Cibona, KK Partizan, and KK Atletas KKK – (i) Ku Klux Klan
KL kl – (s) Kalaallisut language (ISO 639-1 code) kL – (s) kilolitre KL – (i) Kuala Lumpur – (s) Kerala (Indian state code) KLENOT – (p) KLEť observatory near Earth and other unusual objects observations team and telescope KLM – (i) Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Dutch "Royal Dutch Airlines") KLOC – (a) kilo lines of code KLS (i) Kleine–Levin syndrome Košarkaška liga Srbije (Latin) or Кошаркашка лига Србије (Cyrillic) (Serbian, "Basketball League of Serbia") Kuala Lumpur Sentral
KM km – (s) Khmer language (ISO 639-1 code) – kilometre KM – (s) Comoros – (i) knowledge management KMF – (s) Comoro franc (ISO 4217 currency code) KMFDM – (i) Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit (German "No pity for the majority" music band) KMR – (i) Kwajalein Missile Range
KN kn – (s) Kannada language (ISO 639-1 code) kN – (s) kilonewton KN – (s) Democratic People's Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 digram) KNA – (s) Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 trigram) KNVB – (i) Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (Dutch for Royal Dutch Football Association)
KO ko – (s) Korean language (ISO 639-1 code) KO – (i) Knocked Out kom – (s) Komi language (ISO 639-2 code) kon – (s) Kongo language (ISO 639-2 code) kor – (s) Korean language (ISO 639-2 code) KOR – (s) Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram) KOSA – (a) Kids Online Safety Act
KP KP – (i) Kim Possible KPMG – (i) Klynveld, Peat, Marwick, Goerdeler KPNO – (i) Kitt Peak National Observatory KPV – (i) Krupnokaliberniy Pulemet Vladimorova (Russian КПВТ Крупнокалиберный Пулемет Владимирова, "Large-Calibre Machinegun Vladimirov") KPVT – (i) Krupnokaliberniy Pulemet Vladimorova Tankoviy (Russian КПВТ Крупнокалиберный Пулемет Владимирова Танковый, "Large-Calibre Machinegun Vladimirov Tank") KPW – (s) North Korean won (ISO 4217 currency code) K–Pg – (i) Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary K/Pg – (i) Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary
KQ KQ – (s) Kenya Airways (IATA airline designator) – Kingman Reef (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
KR kr – (s) Kanuri language (ISO 639-1 code) Kr – (s) Krypton KR – (s) Kiribati (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 digram) KRW – (s) South Korean won (ISO 4217 currency code)
KS ks (s) Kashmiri language (ISO 639-1 code) kilosecond kS – (s) kilosiemens KS (s) Kansas (postal symbol) Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code) KSC – (i) Kennedy Space Center KSI – (i) Killed or Seriously Injured KSM (i) Korean Service Medal Khalid Sheikh Mohammed KSU (i) Kansas State University Kennesaw State University
KT kT – (s) kilotesla KT – (s) Christmas Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code) – (i) Knight of the Order of the Thistle – Knights Templar K–T – (i) Cretaceous–Tertiary Boundary K/T – (i) Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary KTS – (i) Knight of the Tower and Sword (of Portugal)
KU ku – (s) Kurdish language (ISO 639-1 code) KU (s) Kuwait (FIPS 10-4 country code) (i/p) University of Kansas kua – (s) Kuanyama language (ISO 639-2 code) KUL – (i) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Flemish, Catholic University of Leuven) kur – (s) Kurdish language (ISO 639-2 code) KUW – (s) Kuwait (UNDP country code, IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
KV kv – (s) Komi language (ISO 639-1 code) kV – (s) kilovolt KV - (s) Kosovo KV – (s) Kavminvodyavia (IATA airline designator) – (i) Kendriya Vidhyalaya (Indian school) – Kliment Voroshilov (tanks) – Köchel-Verzeichnis (Mozart catalogue) – Valley of the Kings (originally "Kings' Valley") KVM – (i) Keyboard, Video, Mouse switch KVT – (i) Killer-Victim Table (military simulations)
KW kw – (s) Cornish language (ISO 639-1 code) kW – (s) kilowatt KW – (s) Kuwait (ISO 3166 digram) KWB – Kids' WB! KWD – (s) Kuwaiti dinar (ISO 4217 currency code) KWT – (s) Kuwait (ISO 3166 trigram)
KX KX – (s) Cayman Airways (IATA airline designator)
KY ky – (s) Kyrgyz language (ISO 639-1 code) KY (s) Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 digram) Kentucky (postal symbol) KYD – (s) Cayman Islands dollar (ISO 4217 currency code) KYTC – (p) Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
KZ KZ – (s) Kazakhstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) KZN – (i) KwaZulu-Natal KZT – (s) Kazakh tenge (ISO 4217 currency code)