K
K is the eleventh letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. In English, the letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive. The letter K comes from the Greek letter Κ -kappa, which was taken from the Semitic kap, the symbol for an open hand. It is the fifth least frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 0.8% in words. In most languages where it is employed, this letter represents the sound K without aspiration or some similar sound
- in thermodynamic temperature K is the unit symbol for the kelvin
- in satiric misspelling K replacing C
- in unit prefix K is 1000 times
- in chess notation the letter K is the king
- in fracture mechanics K is the stress intensity factor
- in international morse code K is over
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