KL

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[edit] Abbreviation

KL is a two letter initialism that may stand for:

• K-line, a line in an IRC chat configuration file
• Kalaallisut language (ISO 639 alpha-2), a language of the Inuit of Greenland
• Kiloliter, a type of unit measurement for volume
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (IATA airline designator: KL)
• Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia
• Kullback-Leibler divergence, in mathematics, a "measure" of the difference between two probability distributions
• Women's List or "Kvenna Listin", a political party in Iceland
• Mazda KL engine, a Mazda piston engine

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Chatspeak for "Cool"
• KL1, or "Kernel Language 1", an experimental AND-parallel version of KL0 for the ICOT Fifth Generation Computer project
• KL-7, 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, a portable, electronic cipher device used by the US in the late 1970s