Semiconductor Glossary - K
Kelvin
Acid dissociation constant
KiloAmpere (1000A)
A Japanese term with the literal meaning of "improvement". The concept implies a continuous effort (therefore "continuous improvement") involving all company functions at all levels. The title of the book written by Masaaki Imai that we are using as our guide to TQM.
Kanban (system developed by Taiichi Ohno when he was vice-president in Toyota) is a card designed to prevent overproduction and ensures that necessary parts are drawn from process to process, in reverse order (kanban in Japanese means "visible record"). The kanban procedure is a replenishment system designed to control production quantities in every process. Characteristics of kanban are that the following process takes only what is needed. The preceding process produces only enough parts to replace those withdrawn by the following process
Base dissociation constant
KiloBits PerSecond
Kilocalorie
Soil sorption coefficient
Kilo Electron Volts
Kilogram
Kilo Hertz (1000 cycles per second)
A prefix meaning a multiple of 1 000 (xl 03).
1,024 bytes (1,024 being one K, or two to the 10th power); often used as a measure of memory capacity.
Town on the island of Malta. Location of ST assembly plant.
Small town on the outskirts of Stockholm in Sweden. Location of ST's main sales office in Scandinavia.
Kilometre
Organic carbon partition coefficient
Octanol-water partition coefficient
Key Product Program
Solubility product constant
Knoweldge Sharing
Kilo Volt Amperes
Key Telephone Systems
Kilowatt
Kilowatt-hour
Established in December 1997 recognizes the need to take further actions to stabilize six species of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) in order to more effectively address global climate change.
ST's second generation of PC Graphics controllers based on Imagination Technologies' PowerVR(TM) architecture.
