What is "km"

n. a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) [syn: kilometer, kilometre, klick]

KM, Km, or km may stand for:

Science, computing, mathematics, information technology

• Kilometre (km)
• Kernel methods, computer science algorithms
• Km, an electric Motor constant
• KM (Knowledge Machine) programming language
• Kelley-Morse set theory, a mathematics set theory
• K, the Michaelis constant in Michaelis–Menten kinetics
• Knowledge Management comprises a range of practices used by organisations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge for reuse, awareness and learning
• Series of Russian Steel Towers, e.g. 3803 KM, 30107 KM 1

Places

• Kamenz (district), Germany (license plate indication)
• Messenia, Greece (license plate indication)
• KM Junction, West Virginia
• .km, Internet top-level domain (ccTLD) for Comoros (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
• Kysucké Nové Mesto, town in Slovakia (its district code is KM)
• Kent-Meridian High School in Kent, Washington (abbreviated KM)
• Kosovska Mitrovica in Serbia

Companies

• Konica Minolta, a manufacturer of electronics
• Kia Motors, an automobile manufacturer
• Air Malta (IATA code)
• The KM Group, a multimedia group based in Kent
• KM former stock symbol for Kmart

Organisations

• Knight of Malta (disambiguation), Christian order of knighthood
• Kriegsmarine, the name of the German navy during the Nazi regime
• Koninklijke Marine, the Dutch name of the Royal Netherlands Navy
• Klubbmästeri, a type of Swedish student organisation

Music

• Kennis Music, a record label
• Knock Madness, an upcoming album by Hopsin

Currency

• Krause-Mishler numbers, catalogue number references for the Standard Catalog of World Coins by Krause Publications
• KM, Bosnia and Herzegovina konvertibilna marka, currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Other

• Krav Maga, a self-defence and hand-to-hand combat system
• The Ekranoplan given the name "Caspian Sea Monster" by U.S. intelligence operatives.
• km, ISO 639 alpha-2 code for the Khmer language
• Kinemantra Meditation, a meditation technique
• Km (hieroglyph)
• KM-mount, Konica KM-mount rangefinder camera mount

The Egyptian hieroglyph for "black" in Gardiner's sign list is numbered I6. Its phonetic value is . The Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache-(Dictionary of the Egyptian Language) lists no less than 24 different terms of km indicating 'black' such as black stone, metal, wood, hair, eyes, and animals.

The most common explanation for the hieroglyph is under the Gardiner's Sign List, section I for "amphibious animals, reptiles, etc" is a crocodile skin with spines. Rossini and Schumann-Antelme propose that the crocodile skin hieroglyph actually shows claws coming out of the hide.

Besides 'black', the alternate use of the hieroglyph is for items terminating, coming-to-an-end, items of completion, hence a reference to charcoal, burning to its ending.