| GLOSSARTIST AVIATION GLOSSARY |
| KLA. |  Reference acceleration gain
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| KTAE. | Track angle error gain
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| KVSF. | Velocity error scale factor
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| KXTKD. | Crosstrack deviation gain
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| KXTKR. | Crosstrack deviation rate gain
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| KZSF. | Altitude error scale factor
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| APS AERO CHART |
| K | Kopter (spoken ICAO ATS route designator
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| KE | Kenya (SE Africa equatorial nation on Indian Ocean)
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| kg | kilograms
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| KG | Kyrgyzstan (CIS nation bordered by Kazakhstan, China, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan)
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| kHz | kilohertz
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| KIAS | Knots Indicated Airspeed
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| KLIZ | Korea Limited Identification Zone, also, ICAO ident for Loring AFB, ME
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| km | kilometer (distance)
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| kmh | kilometers per hour (speed)
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| KPa | kilopascal (pressure)
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| KR | Kiribati (extensive Pacific Islands nation near equator from 170E to 150W)
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| KS | Republic of Korea (South half of peninsula between Yellow Sea and Sea of Japan)
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| KS | Kansas (ConUS central state)
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| KT | Christmas Island (now Kiritimati Island, approx 1060nm S of Hawaii, in NE area of Kiribati)
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| KU | Kuwait (Middle East nation at NW shore of Persian Gulf bordered by Iraq and Saudi Arabia)
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| kw | kilowatt
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| KY | Kentucky (ConUS southeast state)
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| KZ | Kazakhstan (large CIS nation S of Russia stretching from the Caspian Sea to China)
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| EUROCONTROL |
| K, k | Symbol for kilo (10^3)
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| KABA | Kontrastive Aufgabenanalyse in Büro (DE) / Contrastive Task Analysis of Office Workplaces
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| KAR | Karlsruhe
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| KARLDAP | Karlsruhe Automatic Data Processing and Display System /
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| KB | Kilo Byte
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| Kbps | Kilobits per second
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| KBS | Knowledge-Based System
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| KDS | Keyboard Display System (Station)
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| KECU | Thousands of European Currency Units
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| KEMA | Keuring van Elektrotechnische Materialen (NL)
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| KfV | Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit (AT) / The Austrian Traffic Safety Board
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| Khz | KiloHertz *
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| KIAS | Knots Indicated Air Speed
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| KIDS | Karlsruhe Interim DCTS
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| KIS | Keyboard Input Station
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| KLDAP | KARLDAP + Langen (D)
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| KLOC | thousand lines of code
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| km, KM | kilometer
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| Km/h | kiliometres per hour
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| KNMI | Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (NL) / Royal Netherlands Meteorology Institut
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| KOX | Karlsruhe Operational Exchange
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| KPA | Key Performance Area (PRC)
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| KPI | Key Performance Indicator
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| KPT | Karlsruhe Planning Team
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| KR | Knowledge of Result
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| KR 20 | A measure of the internal consistency, or homogeneity, or scalability, of a test material (Ferguson, 1976).
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