K

Examples

• As I glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the envelope. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• A ring or watch case marked 14K or 18K means that fourteen or eighteen parts of it are pure gold, the balance of the twenty-four carats being some sort of alloy, copper being generally used. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At K this spring is clamped and insulated from the iron work by two pieces of hard rubber. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• K is the cathode plate, formed of a concave disk of aluminum, which focuses the rays at a point near the center of the bulb. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• K K, Steam Winches for working moorings and shifting position of the barge. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If _K_ is closed for a longer time, a short dash is made by the marker, and, in general, the length of time that _K_ is closed determines the length of the marks recorded on the tape. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The primary of the induction-coil is connected as shown, one end going to key K and the other to the buzzer circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The electricity from the copper end of the battery _D_ would be conducted along _A_ through the instrument _I_, and by the wire _K_ to the earth-plate _H_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• K?nig’s machine was in 1827 succeeded by that of Applegath and Cowper, which was simpler and more rapid. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Long before he undertoo k the regular study of the law, he spent long hours poring ove r the revised statutes of the State in which he was living. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I took up the envelope and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the gum, the letter K three times repeated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This dance of Dvor?k's, for instance. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• As to the additional reference letters, I is a condenser J the source of light, and K a reflector. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• H is a purge or overflow pipe, K a sight hole which permits the operation of the apparatus to be watched, the stream of water being distinctly seen in the free interval. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The best k黰mel comes in those bearshaped bottles. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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