BER may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Basal electrical rhythm The basal or basic electrical rhythm (BER) or electrical control activity (ECA) is the spontaneous depolarization and repolarization of pacemaker cells known as interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) in the smooth muscle of the stomach, small intestine ...

, spontaneous rhythmic slow action potentials that some smooth muscles of the GI tract display *

Base excision repair Base excision repair (BER) is a cellular mechanism, studied in the fields of biochemistry and genetics, that repairs damaged DNA throughout the cell cycle. It is responsible primarily for removing small, non-helix-distorting base lesions from t ...

, a DNA repair pathway *

Benign early repolarization Benign early repolarization (BER) or early repolarization is found on an electrocardiogram (ECG) in about 1% of those with chest pain. It is diagnosed based on an elevated J-point / ST elevation with an end-QRS notch or end-QRS slur and where t ...

, a heart arrhythmia *

Blossom end rot Calcium (Ca) deficiency is a plant disorder that can be caused by insufficient level of biologically available calcium in the growing medium, but is more frequently a product of low transpiration of the whole plant or more commonly the affected ti ...

, a plant disorder

Computing

Basic Encoding Rules X.690 is an ITU-T standard specifying several Abstract Syntax Notation One, ASN.1 encoding formats: * #BER encoding, Basic Encoding Rules (BER) * #CER encoding, Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) * #DER encoding, Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) T ...

, a set of rules for encoding data *

Bit error rate In digital transmission, the number of bit errors is the number of received bits of a data stream over a communication channel that have been altered due to noise, interference, distortion or bit synchronization errors. The bit error rate (BER) ...

, the ratio between the number of incorrect bits transmitted to the total

Places

Bermuda Bermuda is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. Bermuda is an ...

(IOC and UNDP code), a British overseas territory *

Bohai Economic Rim The Bohai Economic Rim (BER) or Bohai Bay Economic Rim (BBER) is the economic region surrounding Tianjin (Tientsin). It also includes areas in Hebei, Liaoning and Shandong surrounding the Bohai Sea. This region has undergone major economic and i ...

, the economic region surrounding Tianjin, China

Transport

Air Berlin Air Berlin plc & Co. Luftverkehrs KG (), branded as airberlin or airberlin.com, was a major German airline. At its peak, it was Germany's second-largest airline after Lufthansa, as well as Europe's tenth-largest airline in terms of passengers c ...

(ICAO code: BER), a defunct German airline *

Berlin Brandenburg Airport Berlin Brandenburg Airport () () is an international airport in Schönefeld, just south of the Germany, German capital and state of Berlin, in the state of Brandenburg. Named after the former Mayor of West Berlin, West Berlin mayor and Chance ...

(IATA code: BER), Germany *

Berlin station (Connecticut) Berlin station is a train station located in the Kensington neighborhood of Berlin, Connecticut. It is on the New Haven–Springfield Line and is served by Amtrak's , ''Hartford Line'', and , in addition to the Hartford Line commuter rail. Two ...

(Amtrak code: BER), United States

Other uses

Beyond economic repair A spare part, spare, service part, repair part, or replacement part, is an interchangeable part that is kept in an inventory and used for the repair or refurbishment of defective equipment/units. Spare parts are an important feature of logisti ...

, a rating of a damaged item * Block Exemption Regulation, published by the European Commission regarding European Union competition law *

Building the Education Revolution Building the Education Revolution (BER) was an Government of Australia, Australian government program administered by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) designed to provide new and refurbished infrastructur ...

, a 2010 Australian government economic stimulus programme * Building Energy Rating, a rating label for the energy performance of a building in Ireland * ''

Chemische Berichte ''Chemische Berichte'' (usually abbreviated as ''Ber.'' or ''Chem. Ber.'') was a German-language scientific journal of all disciplines of chemistry founded in 1868. It was one of the oldest scientific journals in chemistry, until it merged with ' ...