Kern or KERN may refer to:
People
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Kern (surname) Kern is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Adele Kern (1901–1980), German soprano opera and operetta singer
* Anna Petrovna Kern (1800–1873), Pushkin's mistress
* András Kern (born 1948), Hungarian actor
* Brad Kern, America ...
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Kern (soldier)
A kern was a Gaelic warrior, specifically a light infantryman, in Ireland in the Middle Ages.
Etymology
The word ''kern'' is an anglicisation of the Middle Irish word ''ceithern'' or ''ceithrenn'' meaning a collection of persons, particularl ...
, a light infantry unit in Medieval Irish armies
Places
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Kern, Alaska, a ghost town in Alaska
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Kern, Austria, see
Sankt Marienkirchen am Hausruck
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Kern, California, a former unincorporated community in Kern County, California
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Kern County, California
Kern County is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield.
Kern County compris ...
, a county in the southern Central Valley of the U.S. state of California
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Kern River
The Kern River is an Endangered, Wild and Scenic river in the U.S. state of California, approximately long. It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada ( ) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between ...
, California, a river which drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains
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Kern, Missouri, an unincorporated community
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Boron, California
Boron (formerly Amargo, Baker, Borate, and Kern) is a unincorporated place in Kern County, California, United States. Boron is southwest of Red Rock Mountain at an elevation of . For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defi ...
or Kern, California, a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States
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Kern (typography)
In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between Character (symbol), characters in a Typeface#Proportion, proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the space between individual le ...
, the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font
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Kern AG
KERN Global Language Services is an internationally active language service provider of German origin.
History
The company started out as ''KERN Internationale Handels- und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH (KERN International Trade and Distribution ...
, a German-based international language service company
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KERN
Kern or KERN may refer to:
People
* Kern (surname), includes a list of people with the name
* Kern (soldier), a light infantry unit in Medieval Irish armies
Places
* Kern, Alaska, a ghost town in Alaska
* Kern, Austria, see Sankt Marienkir ...
, an American radio station
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Cell (music) The 1957 ''Encyclopédie Larousse''quoted in Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990). ''Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music'' (''Musicologie générale et sémiologue'', 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). . defines a cell in music as a "s ...
, melodic kernels, called Kern in German music theory
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Cern (disambiguation)
CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) is a particle physics lab in Europe. Cern or variations thereof, may refer to:
* Churches European Rural Network
* 15332 CERN, an asteroid
* CERN httpd, the name of an httpd website software
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Kerne (disambiguation)
Kerne may refer to:
* Kerne or Kernev, Breton names for the historic region of Cornouaille, in Brittany, France
* Radio Kerne, a radio station in Brittany broadcasting in Breton
* Kerne Bridge, Herefordshire, England, UK; a bridge
* ''Kerne'', a ...
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Kernel (disambiguation)
Kernel may refer to:
Computing
* Kernel (operating system), the central component of most operating systems
* Kernel (image processing), a matrix used for image convolution
* Compute kernel, in GPGPU programming
* Kernel method, in machine learnin ...
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Kerner (disambiguation) Kerner may refer to:
* Kerner (grape), a variety of white grape
* Kerner (surname), name origin and list of people with the surname Kerner
* Kerner Commission, established in 1967 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of race r ...
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Kerns (disambiguation)
Kerns may refer to:
* Plural of Kern
* Kerns (surname)
* Kerns, Ontario, Canada
* Kerns, Portland, Oregon, United States
* Kerns, Switzerland
Kerns is a municipalities of Switzerland, village in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland.
Histo ...
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Kirn (disambiguation)
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Saoud Qern (born 1987) Saudi soccer player
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