KL
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Abbreviation

KL is a two letter initialism that may stand for:
  • Kalaallisut language
    Kalaallisut language
    Greenlandic is an Eskimo–Aleut language spoken by about 57,000 people in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada, such as Inuktitut...

     (ISO 639
    ISO 639
    ISO 639 is a set of standards by the International Organization for Standardization that is concerned with representation of names for language and language groups....

     alpha-2), a language of the Inuit of Greenland
  • Kenny Loggins
    Kenny Loggins
    During the next decade, Loggins recorded so many successful songs for film soundtracks that he was referred to as, King of the Movie Soundtrack.He began with "I'm Alright" , "Mr. Night", and "Lead the Way" from Caddyshack...

    , a soft rock
    Soft rock
    Soft rock is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock music to compose a softer, more toned-down sound. Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships. The genre tends to make heavy use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizers and sometimes...

     music singer
  • Kiloliter, a type of unit measurement for volume
  • Kirkland Lake, a town in Ontario, Canada
  • KLM, the Dutch airline (IATA airline designator: KL)
  • Kuala Lumpur
    Kuala Lumpur
    Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...

    , the capital of Malaysia
  • Kullback-Leibler divergence, in mathematics, a "measure" of the difference between two probability distributions
  • Women's List
    Women's List
    The Women's List was a feminist party in Iceland that took part in national politics from 1983 to 1998, gaining some seats in Alþingi. In 1998 it merged with two other political parties to form the Social Democratic Alliance, but many of its members refused to participate in that party and joined...

     or "Kvenna Listin", a political party in Iceland
  • Konzentrationslager, the German word for Concentration Camp, often abbreviated as KL during World War II.
  • Mazda KL engine, a Mazda piston engine
  • Koninklijke Landmacht, the Royal Netherlands Army.

Miscellaneous

  • Chatspeak for "Cool" or "Okay later"
  • KL1
    KL1
    KL1, or Kernel Language 1 is an experimental AND-parallel version of KL0 developed for the ICOT Fifth Generation Computer project. KL1 is an implementation of Flat GHC , making it a parallelised Prolog variant.-External links:* , home of the KLIC KL1 to C compiler - last update circa 1999-Further...

    , or "Kernel Language 1", an experimental AND-parallel version of KL0
    KL0
    Kernel Language 0 is a sequential logic programming language based on Prolog, used in the ICOT Fifth generation computer project....

     for the ICOT Fifth Generation Computer project
  • KL-7
    KL-7
    The TSEC/KL-7, code named ADONIS and POLLUX, was an off-line non-reciprocal rotor encryption machine. The KL-7 had eight rotors to encrypt the text, seven of which moved in a complex pattern, controlled by notched rings. The non-moving rotor was in fourth from the left of the stack. The encrypted...

    , or KL-47, also known as TSEC, code named "ADONIS", a rotor machine encryption system introduced in the 1950s by the US National Security Agency
  • KL-43
    KL-43
    The KL-43 is a portable, electronic cipher device used by the United States and the NATO from the early 1980s. The machine, manufactured by TRW, is an adaptation of language translator technology, and includes a keyboard for input and an LCD display for output. It also contains a built-in modem, a...

    , a portable, electronic cipher device used by the US in the late 1970s

Places

  • Kings Langley
    Kings Langley
    Kings Langley is a historic English village and civil parish northwest of central London on the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills and now part of the London commuter belt. The major western portion lies in the borough of Dacorum and the east is in the Three Rivers district, both in the county of...

    , Hertfordshire
    Hertfordshire
    Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...

  • King's Lynn
    King's Lynn
    King's Lynn is a sea port and market town in the ceremonial county of Norfolk in the East of England. It is situated north of London and west of Norwich. The population of the town is 42,800....

    , Norfolk
    Norfolk
    Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

  • Kuala Lumpur
    Kuala Lumpur
    Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...

    , Malaysia
  • Kaiserslautern
    Kaiserslautern
    Kaiserslautern is a city in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate forest . The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, and from Luxembourg.Kaiserslautern is home to 99,469 people...

    , Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    (code used on German license plates)
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