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Kinetochore
- noun - a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape; "the centromere is difficult to sequence"
Kinetograph
- - A camera for making chronophotographs. [obsolescent] (b) A machine for the projection of chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture. [obsolescent] (c) A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically uttered by the latter instrument. It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film.
Kinetophone
- - A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds. It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film.
Kinetoscope
- noun - a device invented by Edison that gave an impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter; precursor of the modern motion picture
Kitembillas
- noun - a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
- maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves
Kitesurfing
- unknown - A sport using wind power and a large kite to carry the rider across water or land. Sometimes called kiteboarding.
Klieg Light
- noun - carbon arc lamp that emits an intense light used in producing films
Knee-Length
- adjective - extending to the knee
Kneecapping
- verb - shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning; "They kneecapped the industrialist"
Kneejointed
- - Geniculate; kneed. See Kneed, a., 2.