AK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does AK mean? 

• AK (noun)
  The noun AK has 1 sense:

1. a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union

  Familiarity information: AK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

AK; Alaska; Last Frontier

Context example:

Alaska is the largest state in the United States

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "AK"):

Sitka (a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906)

St. Elias Mountains; St. Elias Range (a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory)

Prudhoe Bay (a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968)

Great Mendenhall Glacier; Mendenhall Glacier (a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska)

Denali; McKinley; Mount McKinley; Mt. McKinley (a mountain in south central Alaska; the highest peak in North America (20,300 feet high))

Kodiak; Kodiak Island (an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784)

Inland Passage; Inside Passage (a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska)

Hubbard; Mount Hubbard (a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high))

Denali Fault (a major open geological fault in Alaska)

Alaska Range (a mountain range in south central Alaska; contains Mount McKinley)

Alaska Peninsula (a peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands))

Alexander Archipelago (a group of islands off southeastern Alaska)

Seward Peninsula (a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle)

Valdez (a port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world)

Skagway (a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rush)

Alaskan pipeline; trans-Alaska pipeline (an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez)

Nome (a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century)

Anchorage (a city in south central Alaska)

capital of Alaska; Juneau (the state capital of Alaska)

Aleutian Islands; Aleutians (an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska)

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (the largest national park of the United States; located in Alaska)

Lake Clark National Park (a national park in Alaska having Eskimo and Athapaskan archeological sites)

Kobuk Valley National Park (a national park in Alaska having mountains and forests and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sites)

Kenai Fjords National Park (a national park in Alaska having mountains and whale watching and ancient Indian copper mines)

Katmai National Park (a national park in Alaska featuring mountains)

Gates of the Arctic National Park (a large national park in Alaska featuring the Great Mendenhall Glacier)

Denali National Park (a large national park in Alaska having peaks of the Alaska Range (including Mount McKinley) and the huge Denali fault)

Iditarod Trail (a trail that extends 1,100 miles from Anchorage over the Alaska Range to Nome)

Holonyms ("AK" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

 Context examples 

Inhibition of aurora kinases inhibits cell division and proliferation and induces apoptosis in tumor cells overexpressing AKs.

(Cenisertib, NCI Thesaurus)

A small synthetic molecule and aurora kinase (AK) inhibitor with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Multikinase Inhibitor AT9283, NCI Thesaurus)

AKs are serine-threonine kinases that play essential roles in mitotic checkpoint control during mitosis.

(Aurora Kinase Inhibitor SNS-314, NCI Thesaurus)

Aurora A kinase/tyrosine kinase inhibitor ENMD-2076 selectively binds to and inhibits non-specified tyrosine kinases and Aurora kinases (AKs).

(Aurora A Kinase/Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor ENMD-2076, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon subcutaneous administration, the active ingredient in AK 3012 may inhibit actinic keratosis.

(AK 3012, NCI Thesaurus)

AT9283 selectively binds to and inhibits AKs A and B, which are serine-threonine kinases that play essential roles in mitotic checkpoint control during mitosis.

(Multikinase Inhibitor AT9283, NCI Thesaurus)

Aurora kinase inhibitor SNS-314 selectively binds to and inhibits AKs A and B, which may result in the inhibition of cellular division and proliferation in tumor cells that overexpress AKs.

(Aurora Kinase Inhibitor SNS-314, NCI Thesaurus)

AKs are serine-threonine kinases that play an essential role in mitotic checkpoint control during mitosis and are important regulators of cell division and proliferation.

(Aurora A Kinase/Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor ENMD-2076, NCI Thesaurus)

Aurora Kinase Inhibitor AS703569 selectively binds to and inhibits aurora kinases (AKs), a family of serine-threonine kinases which are important regulators of cell division and proliferation, and which are overexpressed in certain types of cancer.

(Cenisertib, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of these kinases results in an inhibition of cellular division and proliferation in tumor cells that overexpress AKs.

(Multikinase Inhibitor AT9283, NCI Thesaurus)