AK

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

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: AK, aK, and ak.

Arts and entertainment
  • A.K. (film), a 1985 film directed by Chris Marker
  • AK (radio program), a weekly program produced by Alaska Public Radio Network from 2003 to 2008, later a segment on Alaska News Nightly
  • AK (rapper), also known as AK the Razorman, American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia, member of hip hop group P$C
  • AK-47 (rapper), American rapper from Chicago, Illinois, member of hip hop group Do or Die
  • AK the Savior, American rapper from Brooklyn, New York, member of The Underachievers
  • Arknights, the Chinese mobile game developed by Hypergryph

Businesses 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
  • Ajnad al-Kavkaz, a Chechen-led militia in the Syrian Civil War

Science
  • AK, the herbarium code for Auckland War Memorial Museum
  • Patient AK, a 16-year-old female patient who laughed when her brain was stimulated with electric current during treatment for epilepsy
  • Actinic keratosis, a skin condition
  • Applied kinesiology, a method using manual muscle testing that purportedly gives feedback on the functional status of the body

Places

Transport
  • AirAsia (IATA code AK), a Malaysia-based airline
  • Cargo ships (US Navy hull classification symbol AK)
  • New Zealand AK class carriage passenger carriages used by KiwiRail on their Great Railway Journeys of New Zealand

Other uses
  • Akan language (ISO 639-1 code alpha-2 ak)
  • Kalashnikov rifle (Avtomat Kalashnikova) an originally Soviet/Russian series of rifles, e.g. AK-47, AKM, AK-74, AK-101, AK-103, etc.
  • Knight of the Order of Australia, awarded from 1976 to 1986, and 2014 to 2015
  • Aktuaalne kaamera, a TV program of the Eesti Televisioon
  • Armia Krajowa, the primary resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II
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