Kern or KERN may refer to:

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Kern, Alaska Kern is a former settlement on the Turnagain Arm in Alaska and a flagstop for the Alaska Railroad, about 71 miles (114 km) north of Seward, and 13 miles (21 km) east of Sunrise, Alaska. Kern was located near Kern Creek. In 1914 it was th ...

, a ghost town in Alaska * Kern, Austria, see

Sankt Marienkirchen am Hausruck Sankt Marienkirchen am Hausruck is a municipality in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Geography Sankt Marienkirchen lies in the Innviertel. About 18 percent of the municipality is forest, and 74 percent is ...

Kern, California East Bakersfield is a region in Bakersfield, California directly east of downtown. The region was formerly known as the town of Sumner, which was later incorporated and renamed Kern City. It is primarily a mixture of residential and commercial dev ...

, a former unincorporated community in Kern County, California *

Kern County, California Kern County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield. Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, Metropolitan statistical area. The county ...

, a county in the southern Central Valley of the U.S. state of California *

Kern River The Kern River, previously Rio de San Felipe, later La Porciuncula, is an #Endangered River Status, Endangered, National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, Wild and Scenic river in the U.S. state of California, approximately long. It drains an are ...

, California, a river which drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains *

Kern, Missouri Kern is an unincorporated community in Macon County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community has the name of Robert Kern, a St. Louis judge. References Unincorporated communities in Macon County, Missouri Unincorporated communi ...

, an unincorporated community *

Boron, California Boron (formerly Amargo, Baker, Borate, and Kern) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States. Boron is southwest of Red Rock Mountain at an elevation of . The population was 2,086 at the 2020 census, up from 2,025 ...

or Kern, California, a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States

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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, Americ ...

, a surname *

Kern (typography) In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the space between individual letterforms, while tracking (letter-spacin ...

, the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font *

Kern (soldier) A kern was a Gaelic warrior, specifically a light infantryman, in Ireland in the late Middle Ages. Etymology The word ''kern'' is an anglicisation of the Middle Irish word ''ceithern'' or ''ceithrenn'' meaning a collection of persons, particul ...

, a light infantry unit in Medieval Irish armies *

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 *

KERN KERN (1180 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Wasco- Greenacres, California, and serving the Bakersfield metropolitan area. The station is owned by American General Media. The radio studios and offices are in the American General ...

, an American radio station *

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 " ...

, melodic kernels, called Kern in German music theory

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