Category: K

A copyright, patent, other documentation that generates income as intellectual capital.

Concepts, data, objectives, requirements, rules, and specifications as an organized knowledge repository. Typically this is a computer system, less often, an organization. It can be (1) a retrieval either as an expert system or artificial intelligence; (2) a human-based retrieval. As a system, it is software-based relational using data forms, design constructs, couplings, and linkages. As a human, physical documents and textual information is its basis.

Artificial intelligence or expert systems retrieval for a knowledge based system of automated production processes.

Artificial intelligence / expert system based software techniques. Used to solve process problems. Intended use is to respond to unique queries and expertise transfers, relating one domain of knowledge to another. Exists as a data store / relational database. Data is expert knowledge; retrieval is couplings and linkages; design is to facilitate retrieval.

Experience, information, knowledge, learning, and skills of the employees of an organization tallied into expertise, high-capability. Knowledge capital is an essential component of human capital. Knowledge capital builds the longest lasting competitive advantage of all the production factors. Technical information, such as chemical and electronics expertise or actual experience or skills, such as construction and steel expertise are examples of knowledge capital types. Another name for intellectual capital.

Something assembled from whatever was available to ‘make do’, but not built according to design or plan.

A rascal; a false, tricky, or deceitful person. The word originally meant a boy, attendant, or servant, but long-continued usage has given it its present signifi- cation.

A portion of grain given to a mill-servant from tenants who were bound to grind their grain at such mill.

In English law. The next personal dignity after the nobility. Of knights there are several orders and degrees. The first in rank are knights of the Garter, instituted by Itichard I. and improved by Edward III. in 1344; next follows a knight banneret; then come knights of the Bath, instituted by Henry IV., and revived by George I.; and they were so called from a ceremony of bathing the night before their creation. Tbe last order are knights bachelors, who, though the lowest, are yet the most ancient, order of knighthood; for we find that King Alfred conferred this order upon his son Atlielstan. 1 Bl. Comm. 403.

In English law. An officer in the royal household who has jurisdiction and cognizance of offenses committed within the household and verge, and BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)