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What "k" may stand for
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karat
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Word definitions for karat in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
variant of carat (q.v.). In U.S., karat is used for "proportion of fine gold in an alloy" and carat for "weight of a precious stone."
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Karat (Karat Air) was an airline based in Moscow , Russia . It operates scheduled services from Moscow and charter flights from Kazan , as well as VIP and business aviation services. Its main base is Vnukovo International Airport , Moscow, with a hub at ...
Usage examples of karat.
Only those above sixteen karats are sent on here to Khanbalik, and only those assayed at the fineness of pure unalloyed gold, twenty-four karats, have any hope of getting near the great Khakhan.
I introduced myself, and she responded, in a sort of cascade of words, that she was called Setsen, and she was of the Mongol tribe called Kerait, and she was a Nestorian Christian, all the Kerait having been converted, in a bunch, by some long-ago wandering Nestorian bishop, and she had never set foot outside her nameless village in the far-northern fur-trapping country of Tannu-Tuva until she was selected for concubinage and transported to a trading town called Urga, where, to her surprise and delight, the provincial Wang had graded her at twenty-four karats and sent her on south to Khanbalik.
She had enormous gold earrings that Daniel recognized as louis d'or, the antique gold coin, twenty-two karats each.
Where either were off the screen their direction and distance was marked with karats pointed to the sides.
But there were portents of fur coats, automobiles, diamond rings of many karats perceived in the future.