Definitions for K2

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Spelling: [key-too]
IPA: /ˈkeɪˈtu/

K2 is a 2 letter English word.

You can make 3 anagrams from letters in K2 (2k).

Definitions for K2

noun

  1. Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).

Origin of K2

1856 for def 1, so named by Thomas Montgomerie (1830-78), English surveyor, for the mountain's being the second highest in the Karakoram range; 2010for def 2

Examples for K2

The latter mountain would then rank second, and K2 third, in the scale of altitude, Everest always maintaining its ascendancy.

In this respect it differs from such peaks as K2 and others.

An autopsy report released several days later confirmed that Tucker died of K2.

By night, he hunts with ghosts with goggles and a K2 device.

In 2011 alone, there were nearly 39,000 trips to the emergency room for K2.

A mere 300 or so people in its 60-year climbing history have successfully summited the 28,252-foot peak of K2.

On October 30 in New York City, a 45-year-old homeless man high on K2 attempted to “surf” on top of a moving subway car.

These with K2 are the highest mountains round the Baltoro Glacier.

K2 was, as I have said, discovered by Colonel Montgomerie in 1858.

K2 is not so massive a mountain as Kinchinjunga and Nanga Parbat.

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