PK

Look up PK, Pk, pk, or .pk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

PK or pk may refer to:

Entertainment

• PK (film), a 2014 Indian film directed by Rajkumar Hirani, starring Aamir Khan
• Paperinik, a cartoon character
• Peacekeepers (Farscape), a fictional remnant imperial military of the Peacemakers, in the Farscape television show

Gaming

• Probability of kill (P_k), in computer games, simulations, models, and operations research
• Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows, a video game
• Player killing, player versus player conflict in MMORPGs and MUDs

Places

• Pakistan (ISO country code)
• Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, US
• Pickering, Ontario, Canada

Organisations

• Pakistan International Airlines (IATA airline code)
• Polyteknikkojen Kuoro, a Finnish academic male choir
• Promise Keepers, a Christian men's organization

Science and technology

• Horsepower (Dutch abbr. paardenkracht)
• Pentax K-mount, a lens mount
• Pharmacokinetics
• Psychokinesis
• Public-key cryptography
• pK, negative logarithm of the dissociation constant K (-logK)
• Port knocking, a method of externally opening ports on a firewall
• PK, a magic number commonly used in ZIP archives
• .pk, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Pakistan
• Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae (Perek-Kohoutek), in astronomy

Sports

• Parkour, the activity or sport of moving rapidly through an area, typically in an urban environment, negotiating obstacles by running, jumping, and climbing
• Penalty kill, in ice hockey
• Placekicker, in American football

People

• P. K. van der Byl (1923–1999), Rhodesian politician
• P. K. Subban (born 1989), hockey player
• Paul Kalkbrenner (born 1977), electronic musician
• Phil Katz (1962–2000), creator of the PKZIP file compression software
• Philip K. Wrigley (1894–1977), American chewing gum manufacturer

Other uses

• P.K, an Iranian automobile
• PK machine gun, a Soviet weapon, abbreviated from Pulemyot Kalashnikova (Kalashnikov machine gun)
• SAS President Kruger (F150), a former ship of the South African Navy
• Point kilométrique, (English: Kilometric point) a distance-measurement
• Preacher's kid, a child of a pastor