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Translingual
Etymology 1
Symbol
TK
- (metrology) Symbol for terakelvin, an SI unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 1012 kelvins.
Etymology 2
Symbol
TK
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Tokelau.
- Synonym: TKL (alpha-3)
English
Etymology
Phonetic initialism, with "TK" chosen over "TC" because scarcely any English words contain the sequence "tk," making it easily searchable.
Adjective
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.
Noun
TK
- Initialism of transitional kindergarten.
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
TK
- Abbreviation of Tiefkühl-.
- TK-Pizza ― frozen pizza
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Korean
Etymology
From McCune-Reischauer Romanization initials of Taegu and Kyŏngbuk.
Proper noun
TK • (Tikei) (hangeul 티케이)
- Daegu–Gyeongbuk; Daegu and North Gyeongsang
Synonyms
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛˈka/
- Rhymes: -ɛka
- Syllabification: T‧K
Noun
TK m inan
- Initialism of Trybunał Konstytucyjny. (constitutional tribunal)
Further reading
- TK in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- TK in Polish dictionaries at PWN