PK - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

  • Horsepower (Dutch abbr. paardenkracht)
  • Pentax K Mount, Pentax K lens mount
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • Primary key
  • Psychokinesis
  • Public-key cryptography
  • pK, negative logarithm of the dissociation constant K (-logK)
  • Port knocking, a method of externally opening ports on a firewall
  • PK, a magic number commonly used in ZIP archives
  • .pk, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Pakistan
  • Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae in astronomy

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