PAL is used with a variety of 625-line standards ( B, G, D, K, I, N ) but also with the North American 525-line standard, accordingly named PAL-M.

In the group was an emcee named Ya Kid K from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who later led the group into international fame with hits like " Pump up the Jam " and " Shake That Body ".

The first rule is used in many ( but not all ) dictionaries, the second in telephone directories ( so that Wilson, Jim K appears with other people named Wilson, Jim and not after Wilson, Jimbo ).

A preschool for the deaf and hard of hearing in Mysore, India, was originally named after Helen Keller by its founder K. K. Srinivasan.

* In the Harry Potter series, J. K Rowling named a leading female character Minerva McGonagall in light of the Goddess.

The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and ( since 2005 ) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.

* A poltergeist named Peeves appears in the Harry Potter series, who is described by the series author J. K. Rowling as not a ghost but an " indestructible spirit of chaos.

Ursula K. LeGuin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness is set on a planet named Winter.

The most familiar logics in the modal family are constructed from a weak logic called K, named after Kripke for his contributions to modal logic.

where the constant, now named R, is the gas constant with a value of. 08206 ( atm ∙ L )/( mol ∙ K ).

The dual problem of " integrity ," i. e., the problem of accuracy ( even provenance ) of objects and attendant trustworthiness of subjects not inappropriately to modify or destroy it, is addressed by mathematically affine models, the most important of which is named for its creator, K. J. Biba.

" In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling named Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among her top ten books every child should read.

" G. K. Hunter has suggested Shakespeare may have taken Saturninus ' name from Herodian's History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus, which features a jealous and violent tribune named Saturninus.

, earlier named Tokyo Shibaura Electric K. K.

A man named Coleman told Virgil that the Cowboys had left the Dunbar and Dexter Stable for the O. K.

British author J. K. Rowling introduced a hippogriff named Buckbeak in her Harry Potter book series.

Thus the queen's file is named " Q " and the king's file is named " K ".

" In the 1946 animated short Pluto's Kid Brother, Pluto has a younger brother named K. B.

The county was established by the state government in 1861 on the eve of the American Civil War and named after former United States president James K. Polk.

The class of the congruence is Af, since an arbitrary plane meets **zg in K points.

Since the complex of singular lines is of order K and since there is no complex of invariant lines, it follows from the formula Af that the order of the involution is Af.

Since C is rational, this correspondence has K coincidences, each of which implies a line of the pencil which meets its image.

The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.

The equilibrium constant K is an expression of the equilibrium concentrations of the molecules or the ions in solution.

The acid dissociation constant K < sub > a </ sub > is generally used in the context of acid-base reactions.

The numerical value of K < sub > a </ sub > is equal to the concentration of the products divided by the concentration of the reactants, where the reactant is the acid ( HA ) and the products are the conjugate base and H < sup >+</ sup >.

Because the range of possible values for K < sub > a </ sub > spans many orders of magnitude, a more manageable constant, pK < sub > a </ sub > is more frequently used, where pK < sub > a </ sub >

Its triple point temperature of 83. 8058 K is a defining fixed point in the International Temperature Scale of 1990.

If K is a number field, its ring of integers is the subring of algebraic integers in K, and is frequently denoted as O < sub > K </ sub >.

In the case of a Galois extension L / K the subgroup of all automorphisms of L fixing K pointwise is called the Galois group of the extension.

Paul Thompson is the W. K.

For the specific heats at least, the limiting value itself is definitely zero, as borne out by experiments to below 10 K. Even the less detailed Einstein model shows this curious drop in specific heats.

Famous natives of Columbia include James K. Polk, Governor, Congressman, Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives and eleventh President of the United States ; A. O. P.

Some scholars, for example W. K. Matthews, have placed the merger of the two sounds at the earliest historical phases ( the eleventh century or earlier ), attributing its use until 1918 to Church Slavonic influence.

* K, the eleventh letter in the Latin alphabet

* Cerulean Sins is the eleventh book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton.

K-Town is a nickname for an area in North Lawndale between Pulaski Road and Cicero Avenue in which many names of north-south avenues ( Karlov Ave., Kedvale Ave., Kedzie Ave., Keeler Ave., Kenneth Ave., Kilbourn Ave., Kildare Ave., Kolin Ave., Kolmar Ave., Komensky Ave. Kostner Ave., Kilpatrick Ave., Kenton Ave., Knox Ave., Keating Ave .) begin with the letter K. The pattern is a historical relic of a 1913 street naming proposal in which streets were to be systematically named according to their distance from the Illinois-Indiana border ; K, the eleventh letter, was to be assigned to streets within the eleventh mile, counting west from the state line.

The Cathedral is headed by its current Dean and Rector, the Very Reverend David Allard duPlantier and is the seat of the eleventh Bishop of Louisiana, the Right Reverend Morris K. Thompson, Jr.

Contemporary Biblical scholars like John P. Meier argue part of the reason why the passages about Christianity in Josephus are authentic is because they exist in all relevant manuscripts – Clare K. Rothschild ( Associate Professor of Theology at Lewis University ) has censured this argument on the basis that " the earliest manuscript dates from the eleventh century ", the Ambrosianus 370 ( F 128 ) being the earliest ; preserved in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

Capitalization of the letter K became the de facto standard for binary notation, although this could not be extended to higher powers.

* Conic constant, a quantity describing conic sections, and is represented by the letter K

The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y: The letter Y stands for the consonant in " yoke ", the vowel in " myth " and the vowel in " funny ", and " yummy " for both consonant and vowel, for examples ; W almost always represents a consonant except in rare words ( mostly loanwords from Welsh ) like " crwth " " cwm ".

The Rankine temperature scale was created to use degree intervals the same size as those of the Fahrenheit scale, such that a temperature difference of one degree Rankine ( 1 R ) is equal to a difference of 1 ° F, except that absolute zero is 0 R – the same way that the Kelvin temperature scale matches the Celsius scale, except that absolute zero is 0 K. The Fahrenheit scale uses ( in the same manner as the later Celsius scale ) the symbol ° to denote a point on the temperature scale and the letter F to indicate the use of the Fahrenheit scale ( e. g. " Gallium melts at 85. 5763 ° F "), as well as to denote a difference between temperatures or an uncertainty in temperature ( e. g. " The output of the heat exchanger experiences an increase of 72 ° F " and " Our standard uncertainty is ± 5 ° F ").

The original box scores also created the often puzzling abbreviation for strikeout as " K "-" K " being the last letter of " struck " in " struck out.

Most American and European gold jewellery is made of an alloy of gold, the purity of which is stated in karats, indicated by a number followed by the letter K. American gold jewellery must be of at least 10K purity ( 41. 7 % pure gold ), ( though in the UK the number is 9K ( 37. 5 % pure gold ) and is typically found up to 18K ( 75 % pure gold ).

In English, the letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive ; this sound is also transcribed by in the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA.

Because they were marked with the letter K ( for Voronezh Komintern Factory ), Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, " Katyusha ", about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who has gone away on military service.

The International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC ) therefore recommends the symbol bit instead of b. The prefix kilo is often used in fields of computer science and information technology with a meaning of multiplication by 1024 instead of 1000, contrary to international standards, in conjunction with the base unit byte and bit, in which case it is often written with a capital letter K, e. g., Kbit and KB.

Most stars are currently classified using the letters O, B, A, F, G, K, and M, where O stars are the hottest and the letter sequence indicates successively cooler stars up to the coolest M class.

The new vitamin received the letter K because the initial discoveries were reported in a German journal, in which it was designated as Koagulationsvitamin.

With few exceptions, radio stations east of the Mississippi River received official call signs beginning with the letter W ; those west of the Mississippi a K. The amount of programs these early stations aired was often limited, in part due to the expense of program creation.

In a letter to P. K. Rao, dated September 10, 1935, Gandhi disputes that his idea of civil disobedience was derived from the writings of Thoreau:

Some sources suggest that the " K " in CMYK comes from the last letter in " black " and was chosen because B already means blue.

In algebraic notation, the usual modern way of recording chess games, the letter N stands for the knight ( K is reserved for the king ); in descriptive chess notation, Kt is sometimes used instead, mainly in older literature.

However, if there is more than one rook on the baseline on the same side of the king, and the rook that can castle is not the outermost rook on that side, then the file letter ( uppercase for White ) of the rook that can castle is used instead of " K ", " k ", " Q ", or " q "; in X-FEN notation, castling potentials belong to the outermost rooks by default.

With the exception of the knight, each piece is abbreviated to the first letter of its name: K for king, Q for queen, R for rook, B for bishop, P for pawn.

These mint marks often signal the rarity of the issue, for example the Napoleon 20 franc gold coin struck in 1809 at Paris and marked with the letter " A " had an issue of 687, 508 coins ; in the same year at the mint at Bordeaux, marked with the letter " K " only 2, 534 coins were struck ; while the mint at Lille, marked with a " W " struck 16, 911 coins.

A letter from Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott to U. S. Senator Homer S. Ferguson was printed in The Mining Journal and reported more than 900 military personnel were to be stationed at K. I.

These balls are specially marked with the letter " K " and used exclusively for the kicking game.

During the American Civil War, an infantry or cavalry battalion was an ad hoc grouping of companies from the parent regiment ( which had ten companies, A through K, minus J as described below ), except for certain regular infantry regiments, which were formally organized into three battalions of six companies each ( numbered 1 – 6 per battalion vice sequential letter designations ).

In September 1935, a letter to P. K.