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Translingual
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Symbol
[edit]TK
- (metrology) Symbol for terakelvin, an SI unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 1012 kelvins.
Etymology 2
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Phonetic initialism, with "TK" chosen over "TC" because scarcely any English words contain the sequence "tk," making it easily searchable.
Adjective
[edit]TK (not comparable)
- (publishing) Abbreviation of to come. (used as a placeholder for information to be filled in before publication)
- 1993, Wall Street & Technology, volume 11, page 244:
- Philip Ng joined SC from Citibank's Hong Kong branch TK years ago.
- 2018 June 2, Avi Selk, “Everything you need to know about Trump’s big envelope from Kim Jong Un and the hope for world peace”, in The Washington Post:
- [Q:] Will next week's summit lead to peace between the United States and North Korea?
[A:] TK.
Noun
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- Initialism of transitional kindergarten.
Anagrams
[edit]German
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[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
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- Abbreviation of Tiefkühl-.
- TK-Pizza ― frozen pizza
Indonesian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈteka/ [ˈt̪e.ka]
- Rhymes: -eka
Noun
[edit]TK (first-person possessive TKku, second-person possessive TKmu, third-person possessive TKnya)
- (education) Initialism of taman kanak-kanak (“kindergarten”).
- (cartography) Initialism of titik kartometrik (“cartometric point”).
Further reading
[edit]- “TK” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Korean
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From McCune-Reischauer Romanization initials of Taegu and Kyŏngbuk.
Proper noun
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[edit]Polish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]TK m inan
- Initialism of Trybunał Konstytucyjny. (constitutional tribunal)
Further reading
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- Rhymes:Indonesian/eka
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