KS and variants may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
* , a German postwar commando frogman force
* , a Norwegian type of company
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Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities
The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities () is an employers' organisation in Norway.
It was founded in 1972 as a merger between the Union of Norwegian Cities (''Norges Byforbund'', founded in 1903) and the Norwegian Associati ...
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Keenspot
Keenspot is a webcomic
Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on the internet, such as on a website or a mobile app. While many webcomics are published exclusively online, others are also published i ...
, a webcomics/webtoons portal founded in March 2000 by cartoonist Chris Crosby
* KS, IATA code of
:de:AirConnect, a Romanian airline
* KS, then-IATA code of
PenAir, Peninsula Airways, a defunct airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, US
Language
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Kashmiri language
Kashmiri ( ) or Koshur (Kashmiri: , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic languages, Dardic branch spoken by around 7 million Kashmiris of the Kashmir region, primarily in the Kashmir Valley and surrounding hills o ...
, a Dardic language of Kashmir (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "ks")
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Kernowek Standard
Kernowek Standard (KS, ''Standard Cornish''), its initial version spelt Kernowak Standard, is a variety of the spelling of revived Cornish. It has two specifications, the first of which was published as a draft proposal in March 2007, and the s ...
, an orthography for Revived Cornish
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Kiasu
Kiasu () is a term derived from the Hokkien “kia” meaning afraid and “su” meaning to lose. It is commonly defined as “the fear of losing,” and is directed at a person who behaves competitively to either attain their goal or to get ah ...
, Hokkien (a Chinese spoken variant) word for 'extreme fear of losing' (怕输)
* Sound of the Latin letter
X in many languages
Places
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Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...
(US postal abbreviation KS)
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South Kalimantan
South Kalimantan () is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia. It is the second most populous province on the island of Kalimantan, the Indonesian territory of the island of Borneo after West Kalimantan. The provincial capital was Banjar ...
, Indonesia (ISO 3166-2 province code)
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Krems an der Donau
Krems an der Donau (, ) is a city in Lower Austria, Austria. With a population of 24,821, it is the 20th-largest city of Austria and fifth-largest of Lower Austria. It is approximately west of Vienna. Krems is a city with its own statute (or '' ...
, Austria (vehicle plate code)
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Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...
, Germany (vehicle plate code)
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Khatumo State
SSC-Khaatumo (), officially known as the SSC-Khaatumo State of Somalia (), is a federal member state in northern Somalia, with its capital in Las Anod. It includes parts of the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn regions (combined under the acronym "SSC") ...
, an unrecognised proto-state in northern Somalia
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Northampton
Northampton ( ) is a town and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. It is the county town of Northamptonshire and the administrative centre of the Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority of West Northamptonshire. The town is sit ...
, Great Britain (vehicle plate code)
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Košice-okolie District
Košice–okolie District (''okres Košice–okolie''; , lit. 'Košice-Surroundings') is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. It surrounds the city of Košice, which serves as the district seat although it does not belong to the d ...
, Slovakia (vehicle plate code)
Science, technology, and mathematics
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Kaposi's sarcoma
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a type of cancer that can form masses on the skin, in lymph nodes, in the mouth, or in other organs. The skin lesions are usually painless, purple and may be flat or raised. Lesions can occur singly, multiply in a limite ...
, a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)
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Kartagener syndrome
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare, autosomal recessive genetic ciliopathy, that causes defects in the action of cilia lining the upper and lower respiratory tract, sinuses, Eustachian tube, middle ear, fallopian tube, and flagella of ...
, a genetic disorder
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Kallmann syndrome
Kallmann syndrome (KS) is a hereditary, genetic disorder that prevents a person from starting or fully completing puberty. Kallmann syndrome is a form of a group of conditions termed hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. To distinguish it from other fo ...
, a genetic disorder preventing the start or completion of puberty
* Keratan sulfate, any of several sulfated glycosaminoglycans
* Kernel streaming, a method of processing streamed data
* Ketoacyl synthase, a domain of polyketide synthases with a thiol group on a cysteine side-chain
* kilosample (kS), 1000 samples of a Quantization (signal processing) , digitized signal
* Kilosecond (ks), 1000 seconds (16 minutes, 40 seconds)
* Klinefelter's Syndrome, caused by a chromosome aneuploidy
* Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, a goodness-of-fit test for probability distributions
Other uses
* Katawa Shoujo, A 2012 Visual Novel
* Kammersänger, a German honorary title for a distinguished opera singer
* Kaplan–Sheinwold, a contract bridge bidding system
* Key Stage, a term used in the British education system
* Kill stealing, a practice in online games
* King's Scholar, at a UK public school
* King's Serjeant, an obsolete UK legal post
* Kirk/Spock or K/S, slash fiction
* Kashmiri Wikipedia, Wikipedia in Kashmiri-language
* Strikeouts, in baseball
* Contracts, in legal shorthand
* Slovak koruna, the currency of Slovakia 1993–2008 and of the 1939–1945 Slovak State
See also
* K+S, a German chemical company
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