From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
k adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, m, k] n 1: the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: kelvin, K] 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 [syn: potassium, K, atomic number 19] 3: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard] 4: a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes [syn: kilobyte, K, KB, kB] 5: a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes [syn: kilobyte, kibibyte, K, KB, kB, KiB] 6: the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: K, k] 7: street names for ketamine [syn: K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C]