KYU (Q)

Typographic metric distance unit. Equals 1/4th of a millimeter or 0.71 point.

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KNOWLEDGE WORKER

Data analysts, product developers, planners, programmers, and researchers capturing data to analyze and manipulate into information as a product or service. US management guru Peter Drucker, born in Austria in 1909 popularized this.

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KNOWLEDGE-BASED PAY

Earnings system that compensates employees skill level proficiency and gained education. The employee incentive is improve skills set and education. Reaching certain goals in education, training and skill development translates into higher employee earnings.

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KNOWN

term used to describe a thing that is recognised, like a well known person, a fact that is understood or a thing that is familiar.

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KNOWN HEIRS

the name given to the people who are recognised with the right to inherit.

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KNOWN-MEN

A title formerly given to the Lollards. Cowell.

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KONDRATIEFF CYCLE

Russian economist Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Kondratieff (1892-1938) propose this cycle. The usual boom-bust cycles characteristic of a capitalist economy plays out over a period of about 60 years of major capital goods expansion in this long-duration economic cycle.

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KORAN

The Mohammedan book of faith. It contains both ecclesiastical and secular laws.

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KRAFT PAPER

At least 80 percent virgin wood pulp is in this strong brown unbleached paper.

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KUKDIET, or RUNLET

A measure of wine, oil, etc., containing eighteen gallons and a half. Cowell.

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