Ker or KER may refer to:

People

Ker (surname) Ker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Stewart Ker (1853–1943), Scottish doctor and suffragette * Allan Ebenezer Ker (1883–1958), Scottish army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross * Ker Chien-ming (born 195 ...

* Ker, family name of the Dukes of Roxburghe * Ker, a spelling of the

Guo "Guo", written in Chinese: 郭, is one of the most common Chinese surnames and means "the wall that surrounds a city" in Chinese. It can also be transliterated into English as Cok, Gou, Quo, Quach, Quek, Que, Keh, Kuo, Kwo, Kuoch, Kok, Koc, ...

surname * Frederick Ker, the appellant in the U.S. Supreme Court case ''

Ker v. Illinois ''Ker v. Illinois'', 119 U.S. 436 (1886),''Ker v. Illinois'', is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that a fugitive kidnapped from abroad could not claim any violation of the Constitution, laws or treaties o ...

'' * Ker, a clan of the

Bharwad The Bharwad, also known as gadaria, are a Hindu caste found in the state of Gujarat in India, primarily engaged in herding livestock. History The Bharwads claim they are the descendants of (Hinduism). According to Sudipta Mitra, historians ...

people

Mathematics

* Ker or ker is an abbreviation of

kernel 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 lea ...

* Ker is one of the

Kelvin functions In applied mathematics, the Kelvin functions ber''ν''(''x'') and bei''ν''(''x'') are the real and imaginary parts, respectively, of :J_\nu \left (x e^ \right ),\, where ''x'' is real, and , is the ''ν''th order Bessel function of the first kin ...

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County Kerry County Kerry ( gle, Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and forms part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. The population of the cou ...

, Ireland, Chapman code KER * Kinetic energy recovery, see kinetic energy recovery system *

Ker, Azerbaijan Ker is a village in the Lerik Rayon of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of ...

, a village *''

Capparis decidua ''Capparis decidua'', commonly known as karira, is a useful plant in its marginal habitat. Description It is a small much-branched tree or shrub. It bears a mass of slender, gray-green leafless branches, the small caducous leaves being found ...

'', or ker, a tree and fruit used in various Indian cuisines *

Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani Airport Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بین‌المللی آیت‌الله هاشمی رفسنجانی) is an airport in Kerman, Iran. The airport is used for commercial, general aviation and military training purposes. Fli ...

in Kerman, Iran (KER IATA airport code) * Ker, singular of

Keres (mythology) In Greek mythology, the Keres (; Ancient Greek: Κῆρες), singular Ker (; Κήρ), were female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. Although they were pre ...

* Ker, a character in ''Battlefield Earth'' *

Ker (tribe) The Ker are a Muslim Rajput community found in the state of Gujarat in India and a province of Sindh in Pakistan. They are one of a number of communities of pastoral nomads found in the Banni region of Kutch. History and origin The Ker claim desc ...

, of Kutch, India * ''

VIXX 2016 Conception Ker ''VIXX 2016 Conception Ker'' (stylized as ''VIXX 2016 CONCEPTION Κήρ'') is the second compilation album by South Korean boy band VIXX. The special album was released on November 21, 2016 under Jellyfish Entertainment, supported by a music vid ...

'', an album by South Korean band VIXX * Ker, female death-spirits in Greek mythology. See

Keres In Greek mythology, the Keres (; Ancient Greek: Κῆρες), singular Ker (; Κήρ), were female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. Although they were pre ...

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