K-FACTOR

In telecommunication, the term k-factor has the following meanings:

1. In tropospheric radio propagation, the ratio of the effective Earth radius to the actual Earth radius.

Note: The k-factor is approximately 4/3.

2. In ionospheric radio propagation, a correction factor that (a) is applied in calculations related to curved layers, and (b) is a function of distance and the real height of ionospheric reflection.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

Usage Frequency: K-FACTOR

"K-FACTOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "K-FACTOR" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: K-FACTOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-f-k-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: factor.
	-2 letters: actor, craft, croak, croft, frock, korat, kraft, taroc, tarok, track, troak, trock.
	-3 letters: arco, cark, cart, coat, coft, corf, cork, fact, faro, fart, fora, fork, fort, frat, kart, okra, orca, rack, raft, rato, rock, rota, tack, taco, taro, tora, torc.
	-4 letters: act, aft, arc, arf, ark, art, car, cat, cor, cot, far.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-f-k-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: offtrack.
	+2 letters: rockshaft.
	+3 letters: aftershock, rockshafts.
	+4 letters: aftershocks, factorylike.
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Alternative Orthography: K-FACTOR

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 2D 46 41 43 54 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 00101101 01000110 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#45 &#70 &#65 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 002D 0046 0041 0043 0054 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Mutually agreed multiplier to calculate the final charges for international traffic. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

K-FACTOR

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Crosswords: K-FACTOR