AK Definition

ākāfôrtē-sĕvən
abbreviation
Alaska.
Webster's New World
noun
A clip-fed, gas-operated assault rifle of Soviet design having a caliber of 7.62 millimeters and used throughout the world by armed forces and paramilitary organizations.
American Heritage
An automatic or semiautomatic assault rifle that is gas-operated and clip-fed.
Webster's New World
The Soviet-built 1947 Kalashnikov assault rifle or any similar rifle built to this design.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • Last Frontier
  • alaska
symbol

(metrology) Symbol for the attokelvin, an SI unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 10−18 kelvins.

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Other Word Forms of AK

Noun

Singular:
AK
Plural:
ak-47s

Origin of AK

  • Russian A(vtomat) K(alashnikova) automatic gun of Kalashnikov after Viktor Timofeevich Kalashnikov (born 1919), Soviet arms engineer

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Russian АК-47 (AK-47), shortened from автомат Калашникова 1947 (avtomát Kalášnikova 1947), from the name of the designer Mikhail Kalashnikov.

    From Wiktionary

AK Sentence Examples

  • Five years later Potemkin induced the chiefs of the Crimea and Kuban to hold a meeting at which the annexation of their country to Russia was declared, Turkey giving her consent by a convention, signed at Constantinople, on the 8th of January 1784, by which the stipulations as to the liberty of the Tatars contained in the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji and the convention of Ainali Ka y ak were abrogated.

  • Russia, desirous of deriving some return for the support which she had given the sultan during his rupture with the French, induced the Porte to address to her a note in which the right of intervention in the affairs of the principalities, conferred on her by the treaty of Kainarji and reaffirmed in the convention of Ainali Ka y ak, was converted into a specific stipulation that the hospodars should be appointed in future for seven years and should not be dismissed without the concurrence of the Russian ambassador at Constantinople.

  • The others, which terminate streams, are the Bahr el-Ateiba, which receives the waters of Damascus; the Mat, into which the Kuwaik flows below Kinnesrin; and the Ak Deniz, or Bahrat Antakia, the ancient Lake of Antioch, which collects the waters of the Kara Su and Afrin, the southward from the watershed which shuts off Commagene.

  • The god Nebo appears as PA - the sign of the stylus, which is associated with this deity as the originator and patron of writing and of knowledge in general, - or it is written with a sign AK, which describes the god as a " creator."

  • The integration with regard to y may similarly (in the particular example) be replaced by the operation ak(I+3E'-+3E'2+E'3), where E' denotes the change of y into y + k.

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