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Ku Klux Klan
- noun - a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people
Kuala Lumpur
- noun - the capital and largest city of Malaysia
- the largest city and former capital of Malaysia until 2005
Kumquat Tree
- noun - any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
Kundt's Tube
- noun - a measuring instrument used to measure the speed of sound
Kupfernickel
- - Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.
Kurchatovium
- - A transuranic element of atomic number 104, symbol Ku; also called rutherfordium, symbol Rf. It is produced in very small quantities by nuclear reactions. In November 1993 the nomenclature committe of the American Chemical Society approved the name rutherfordium for element 104. Russsian investigators who claim to have first discovered element 104, isotope 260 (half-life 0.3 seconds) in 1964 at Dubna proposed the name kurchatovium. However, investigators at Berkely in 1969 produced several isotopes of element 104 but were unable to produce isotope 260; they reported finding isotope 257, with a half-life of 4-5 seconds, isotope 259 with a half-life of 3-4 seconds, and isotope 258 with a shorter half-life.
Kwashiorkors
- noun - severe malnutrition in children resulting from a diet excessively high in carbohydrates and low in protein
Kyaboca Wood
- - Amboyna wood. (b) Sandalwood (Santalum album).
Kyriological
- - Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic.
Labanotation
- noun - a system of notation for dance movements that uses symbols to represent points on a dancer's body and the direction of the dancer's movement and the tempo and the dynamics