1. Chess. king.
2. Physics. Kelvin.
3. the number 1000: The salary offered is $20K. [abbr. of KILO-]
4. Music. See Köchel listing .
5. kindergarten: a K-12 boarding school.
6. Real Estate. kitchen.
Symbol.
1. the eleventh in order or in a series, or, when I is omitted, the tenth.
2. Chem. potassium. [ kalium ]
3. Computers.
a. the number 1024 or 2 10 : A binary 32K memory has 32,768 positions.
b. kilobyte.
4. Baseball. strikeout; strikeouts.
5. Physics. kaon.
6. Biochem. lysine.
Ecol.
carrying capacity.