Kr n 1: a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air [syn: {krypton}, {Kr}, {atomic number 36}] 2: a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999 [syn: {Khmer Rouge}, {KR}, {Party of Democratic Kampuchea}, {Communist Party of Kampuchea}]
Kr \Kr\ prop. n. (Chem.) The chemical symbol for the element krypton, one of the six noble gases. [abbrev.] Syn: krypton. [WordNet 1.5]
knowledge representation KR The subfield of {artificial intelligence} concerned with designing and using systems for storing knowledge - {facts} and {rules} about some subject. A body of formally represented knowledge is based on a {conceptualisation} - an {abstract} view of the world that we wish to represent. In order to manipulate this knowledge we must specify how the abstract conceptualisation is represented as a {concrete} data structure. An {ontology} is an explicit specification of a conceptualisation. (1994-10-19)
kr <networking> The {country code} for South Korea. [{Jargon File}] (1999-01-27)
KR [brian] Kernighan & [dennis] Ritchie [c standard], "K&R"