AK

Look up AK, aK, or ak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

AK or A.K. (but not Ak) may refer to:

Companies and organizations

• AK Press, a collectively owned and operated independent publisher and book distributor that specializes in radical and anarchist literature
• AK Steel Holding Company, a US-based S&P 500 (NYSE:AKS) Steel Manufacturer
• Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, the Turkish Justice and Development Party
• Arbeiterkammer, the Austrian Chamber of Labour
• Armia Krajowa (Home Army), underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II

Media

• A.K. (film), 1985 film directed by Chris Marker about the making of Akira Kurosawa's film Ran (1985)
• AK (radio program), a weekly program produced by the Alaska Public Radio Network from 2003 to 2008, currently a weekly segment of the network's flagship program Alaska News Nightly

Medical

• Applied kinesiology, a method using manual muscle testing that purportedly gives feedback on the functional status of the body
• Actinic keratosis, a skin condition

People

• Patient AK, a 16-year-old female patient who laughed when her brain was stimulated with electric current during treatment for epilepsy
• AK (rapper), also known as AK the Razorman, American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia, member of hip hop group P$C
• AK, American rapper from Brooklyn New York, member of The Underachievers
• AK-47 (rapper), also known as AK, American rapper from Chicago, Illinois, member of hip hop group Do or Die

Places

• Alaska, a state in the United States whose postal abbreviation is "AK"
• Azad Kashmir, an area administered by Pakistan

Technology

• Kalashnikov rifle (Avtomat Kalashnikova) an originally Soviet/Russian series of rifles, e.g. AK-47, AKM, AK-74, etc.

Transport

• AK, the IATA code for AirAsia, a Malaysia-based airline
• AK, the US Navy hull classification symbol for Cargo Ship

Other

• ISO 639-1 language code ak: Akan language
• American kestrel, in falconers' usage, a species of bird of prey
• Attokelvin, an SI unit of temperature
• Knight of the Order of Australia, awarded from 1976 to 1986, restored 2014

See also

• Ak (disambiguation)