| Karnaugh Mapping | A means of showing the relationship between logic inputs and desired output. Generally a truth table is mapped to a smaller, more workable grid of output values (1s and 0s). Karnaugh Mappings are often used when working with electronic circuits and trying to predict their output. |
| Kerr Effect | Optical. This describes the effect of laser light that is reflected from a magnetic surface of an optical disk, which rotates clockwise or anticlockwise depending on the polarity of the bit.
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| Kerr Rotation | Optical. When linearly polarised light passes through a thin magnetic film, the polarisation is rotated by the magnetic field in the film. The direction of rotation is used to read information from rewritable optical disks.
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| Keyword | A significant word in a document that helps to define the content of the document. |
| Kilobyte (KB) | One kilobyte = 1,000 bytes (decimal value)
1,024 bytes (binary value)
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| Knowledge | A subdivision of document/content management primarily concerned with facilitating |
| Knowledge base | The fundamental body of knowledge available to an organisation, including the knowledge in people's heads, supported by the organisation's collections of information and data. An organisation may also build subject-specific knowledge bases to collate information on key topics or processes. The term 'knowledge base' is also sometimes used to describe a database of information. |
| Knowledge management | There is a wide variety of definitions of knowledge management. The following is from knowledge management consultants Tfpl: "The creation and subsequent management of an environment which encourages knowledge to be created, shared, learnt, enhanced, organised and utilised for the benefit of the organisation and its customers". |
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