TK
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TK
- (metrology) Symbol for terakelvin, an SI unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 1012 kelvins.
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TK
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Etymology edit
Phonetic initialism, with "TK" chosen over "TC" because scarcely any English words contain the sequence "tk," making it easily searchable.
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TK (not comparable)
- (publishing) Abbreviation of to come. (used as a placeholder for information to be filled in before publication)
- 1993, Wall Street & Technology, volume 11, page 244:
- Philip Ng joined SC from Citibank's Hong Kong branch TK years ago.
- 2018 June 2, Avi Selk, “Everything you need to know about Trump’s big envelope from Kim Jong Un and the hope for world peace”, in The Washington Post:
- [Q:] Will next week's summit lead to peace between the United States and North Korea?
[A:] TK.
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TK
- Initialism of transitional kindergarten.
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TK
- Abbreviation of Tiefkühl-.
- TK-Pizza ― frozen pizza
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TK (first-person possessive TKku, second-person possessive TKmu, third-person possessive TKnya)
- (education) Initialism of taman kanak-kanak (“kindergarten”).
- (mapping) Initialism of titik kartometrik (“cartometric point”).
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- “TK” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Korean edit
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From McCune-Reischauer Romanization initials of Taegu and Kyŏngbuk.
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TK m inan
- Initialism of Trybunał Konstytucyjny. (constitutional tribunal)