IK or Ik may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
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IK Investment Partners
IK Partners (“IK”) is a European private equity firm focused on small and mid cap investments in the Benelux, DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), France, the Nordic countries, Nordics countries and United Kingdom. The firm is led by Christ ...
, a European private equity firm
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Imair Airlines
Imair Airlines was an airline based in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was a private airline operating international scheduled and charter passenger services from 1995 until its ceased operations on 23 November 2009. Its main base was Heydar Aliyev Internat ...
(IATA code IK)
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Iparretarrak
Iparretarrak (meaning "''the Northerners''" in Basque), commonly known as IK, was a Basque nationalist paramilitary organization operating in the French Basque Country, founded in 1973 by Philippe Bidart and other Basque activists. 1982 was th ...
, a Basque nationalist organization
Languages
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Ik language
Ik (also known as ''Icetot, Icietot, Ngulak'' or (derogatory) ''Teuso, Teuth'') is one of the Kuliak languages of northeastern Uganda. The Kuliak languages form their own branch of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. With the other two ...
(ISO 639 alpha-3 ikx), spoken by the Ik people of Uganda
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Inupiaq language (ISO 639 alpha-2), a group of dialects of the Inuit language, spoken in Alaska
Places
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Ik (river)
The Ik (; , ''Iq''; , ''Iq'') is a river in Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends a ...
, a tributary of the Kama in Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, Russia
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Ik (Berd)
The Ik () is a river in Toguchinsky, Maslyaninsky and Iskitimsky districts of Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependenci ...
, a tributary of the Berd in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
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Bolshoy Ik
The Bolshoy Ik (, literally ''Greater Ik''; , ''Olo Iyıq'') is a tributary of the Sakmara, which flows south from the southern end of the Ural Mountains in Bashkortostan and Orenburg Oblast, Russia. The Bolshoy Ik flows into the Sakmara at ...
, a tributary of the Sakmara in Bashkortostan and Orenburg Oblast, Russia
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Ilm-Kreis
Ilm-Kreis is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the city of Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Central Germany (cultural area), Central German state of Th ...
, a region in Germany
Science and technology
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IK (gene)
Protein Red is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''IK'' gene.
The protein encoded by this gene was identified by its RED repeat, a stretch of repeated arginine, glutamic acid and aspartic acid residues. The protein localizes to discret ...
, a protein-encoding gene
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IK code
IK or Ik may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
* IK Investment Partners, a European private equity firm
* Imair Airlines (IATA code IK)
* Iparretarrak, a Basque nationalist organization
Languages
* Ik language (ISO 639 alpha-3 ikx), spoken ...
, a classification of resistance to mechanical impacts
* ''Internationale Kerze'' (German for "international candle"), an old photometric unit to measure
luminous intensity
In photometry, luminous intensity is a measure of the wavelength-weighted power emitted by a light source in a particular direction per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the huma ...
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Inverse kinematics
In computer animation and robotics, inverse kinematics is the mathematical process of calculating the variable joint parameters needed to place the end of a kinematic chain, such as a robot manipulator or animation character's skeleton, in a g ...
, a branch of mechanics
Other uses
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Ik Onkar
Ik Onkar, also spelled Ek Onkar or Ik Oankaar ( Gurmukhi: or ; ); literally, "one ''God''", hence interpreted as "There is only one God or one Creator") is a phrase in Sikhism that denotes the one supreme reality. It is a central tenet of Sikh r ...
, a symbol used in the Sikh religion
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Ik people of Uganda
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The Ik'', a 1975 play by Colin Higgins and Denis Cannan
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