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noun
1.
The basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites.  Synonym: kelvin.
2.
A light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite.  Synonyms: atomic number 19, potassium.
3.
The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.  Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard.
4.
A unit of information equal to 1000 bytes.  Synonyms: kB, kilobyte.
5.
A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.  Synonyms: kB, KiB, kibibyte, kilobyte.
6.
The 11th letter of the Roman alphabet.
7.
Street names for ketamine.  Synonyms: cat valium, green, honey oil, jet, special K, super acid, super C.
adjective
1.
Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units.  Synonyms: 1000, m, one thousand, thousand.



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... "History of the United States," 3: 173.] And further, in the estimate of a recent historian of the valley, "for all the qualities of rugged manhood, courage, persistency that could not be broken, contempt of pain and hardship, he has never been surpassed." [Footnote: James K. Hosmer, "Short History of the Mississippi Valley," ...
— The French in the Heart of America • John Finley
... thing definitely: that the attempt on the life of the Emperor Chia Ching in the Peking streets at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century was a Secret Society plot, and brought to an abrupt end the pleasant habit of travelling among their subjects which the great Manchu Emperors K'anghsi and Ch'ien Lung had inaugurated and always pursued and which had so largely encouraged the growth of personal loyalty ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale
... of the same section as Law C, and is enacted again in Law K, page 69. It is not easy to see why it is here, except to make plain that settlements on marriages of the sons of the first family are a first charge on the father's property. The second family takes a third, not of all the father once had, but of what is left after these ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... these axioms formulae for the transformation of measurements made in one time-system to measurements of the same facts of nature made in another time-system can be deduced. These formulae will be found to involve one arbitrary constant which I will call k. ...
— The Concept of Nature - The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 • Alfred North Whitehead
... President Lincoln that I am not afraid to die for my country," said the grateful soldier; and well did he fulfill his promise. Among the bravest of those two hundred heroes who crossed the swamp at Lee's Mills, was William Scott, of Company K, Third Vermont. But he was brought back a corpse. He had shown the President that he was not afraid to die for his country. He was one of the foremost in the charge, and one of the first to fall. His comrades made his grave under ...
— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens


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