K Means Kelvin and it mesures the color temperature! 5000K and more we call them Cold Colors and it's mosetely (blueish white) while lower color temperatures (2,700–3,000 K) are called warm colors (yellowish white through red).
CFL growers refer to there numbers in order to get the right bulb spectrum for a particular plant cycle or to get a full spectrum by combining 2 or more lights.