K-factor

K-factor or K factor may refer to:

• K-factor (actuarial)
• K-factor (aerospace)
• K-factor (centrifugation)
• K factor (crude oil refining)
• K-factor (fire protection)
• k-factor (graph theory)
• K-factor (marketing)
• K-factor (Rate_of_heat_flow)
• K-factor (sheet metal)
• K factor (traffic engineering)
• k, the product of the six factor formula of nuclear engineering
• Elo rating system
• K-Factor, a producer/remixer based in Washington, DC
• The K Factor, a fictional TV show from British television show Harry Hill's TV Burp spoofing the X Factor
• A K-factor is used to calculate when heating oil must be delivered

In telecommunications:

• In Cisco VoIP deployments, K-factors contain records of call quality metrics
• In tropospheric radio propagation, the ratio of the effective Earth radius to the actual Earth radius
• In Rician fading, the ratio between the power in the direct path and the power in scattered paths
• A correction factor used in ionospheric radio propagation that is applied in calculations related to curved layers, and is a function of distance and the real height of ionospheric reflection