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Entries starting with K
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knobbing
The process of rough dressing stone; the act of cutting off projecting points from quarried stone.
knobble
verbMetallurgy
To produce wrought iron by treating (semirefined puddled iron) on a hearth before shingling.
knock
nounAutomotive
Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
knock down
To reduce the burning of (a fire), as by cooling it with water or dirt.
knock up
To straighten up a stack of paper.
knocking
nounAutomotive
A repetitive ping, knock, or similar sound coming from an engine in which there are repeated uncontrolled explosions in the combustion chamber.
knockoff
A device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.
knockout
An event where a foreground color causes a background color not to print.
knockstone
A block upon which ore is broken up.
knop
nounManufacturing
A tuft or overthickened bunch of looped or twisted yarn
knot
A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
knuckle
nounManufacturing
A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
Koepe
A system of winding, using the friction between the winding ropes and the drive pulley.
KPI
nounAutomotive
Initialism of kingpin inclination.
Krueger flap
A kind of lift enhancement device to be fitted to the leading edge of an aircraft wing.
kruppize
verbMetallurgy
To treat by, or subject to, the Krupp process.
kräusen
verbManufacturing
To condition (beer) by adding fermenting wort, so as to restart fermentation and introduce fresh carbon dioxide.
KVM
Initialism of keyboard-video-mouse: a device allowing these input and output devices to be swapped between a series of server consoles, especially in a rack configuration.
Kármán line
The altitude at which the atmosphere becomes too thin to support aerodynamic flight.