KS

KS and variants may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

  • Kampfschwimmer, a German postwar commando frogman force
  • Kommandittselskap, a Norwegian type of company
  • Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities
  • Keenspot, 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

  • Kashmiri language, a Dardic language of Kashmir (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "ks")
  • Kernowek Standard, an orthography for Revived Cornish
  • Kiasu, Hokkien (a Chinese spoken variant) word for 'extreme fear of losing' (怕输)
  • Sound of the Latin letter X in many languages

Places

  • Kansas (US postal abbreviation KS)
  • South Kalimantan, Indonesia (ISO 3166-2 province code)
  • Krems an der Donau, Austria (vehicle plate code)
  • Kassel, Germany (vehicle plate code)
  • Khatumo State, an unrecognised proto-state in northern Somalia
  • Northampton, Great Britain (vehicle plate code)
  • Košice-okolie District, Slovakia (vehicle plate code)

Science, technology, and mathematics

  • Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)
  • Kartagener syndrome, a genetic disorder
  • Kallmann syndrome, 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 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

See also

  • K+S, a German chemical company
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