Microsoft® Computer Dictionary

Chapter 12. K

K¹ n.

Short for kilobyte.

K² prefix

See kilo- prefix.

K&R C n.

Short for (Brian W.) Kernighan and (Dennis M.) Ritchie C. The version of the C programming language, defined by those two authors, that was the informal C standard until a more formal standard was developed by an ANSI committee. See also C n..

Kalman filter n.

An adaptive filter used to estimate the state of a system from measurements that contain random errors. This recursive adaptive filter determines the correct parameters of a process model. Each new measurement allows the parameters of a model to be predicted and adjusted, thus providing an estimate of error at each update. The Kalman filter’s computational structure and its ability to incorporate the effects of noise (from ...