Rare may refer to: * Rare, a particular temperature of meat * Something infrequent or scarce, see

Scarcity In economics, scarcity "refers to the basic fact of life that there exists only a finite amount of human and nonhuman resources which the best technical knowledge is capable of using to produce only limited maximum amounts of each economic good. ...

Rare species A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered. This designation may be applied to either a plant or animal taxon, and is distinct from the term ''endangered species, endangered'' or ''threatened ...

, a conservation category in biology designating the scarcity of an organism and implying a threat to its viability Rare or RARE may also refer to:

Acronyms

* Ram Air Rocket Engine, a U.S. Navy program of the 1950s *

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...

Music

* Rare (Northern Irish band), a 1990s trip hop group * Rare (Serbian band), an alternative rock band

Albums

* ''Rare'' (Asia album), 1999 * ''Rare'' (David Bowie album), 1982 * ''Rare'' (Hundredth album), 2017 * ''Rare'' (Selena Gomez album) or the title song (see below), 2020 * '' Rare!'', by Crack the Sky, 1994 * '' Rare, Vol. 1'', by Ultravox, 1993 * '' Rare, Vol. 2'', by Ultravox, 1994 * ''Rare: The Collected B-Sides 1989–1993'', by

Moby Richard Melville Hall (September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, disc jockey, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "amo ...

, 1996 * ''Rare'', by Xiu Xiu, 2012

Songs

* "Rare" (Gwen Stefani song), 2016 * "Rare" (Selena Gomez song), 2020 * "Rare", by Man Overboard from ''

Man Overboard "Man overboard!" is an exclamation given aboard a vessel to indicate that a member of the crew or a passenger has fallen off of the ship into the water and is in need of immediate rescue. Whoever sees the person fall is to shout, "Man overboar ...

'', 2011

Organizations

Rare (company) Rare Limited is a British video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Twycross, Leicestershire. Rare's games span the platform, first-person shooter, action-adventure, fighting, and racing genres. Its most popular gam ...

, a British video game development studio * Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne, a computer networking organisation known since 1994 as

TERENA The Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA, ) was a not-for-profit association of European national research and education networks (NRENs) incorporated in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The association was originally ...

Rare (conservation organization) Rare is a global nonprofit environmental organization whose mission is to inspire change so people and nature thrive. Headquartered in the United States, Rare has programs and staff in over 10 countries (including in Asia Pacific, Africa, the Paci ...

, an environmentalist group *

Rare (news website) Rare is an American news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C. Rare was launched as a startup in 2013 by a team of journalists, marketers and business executives at Atlanta-based Cox Media Group. Rare's slogan is, “America's News Fee ...

, a U.S.-based website

People

Vanessa Rare Vanessa Rare is a New Zealand film and television actress, screenwriter and director. She is of Ngāti Pu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Pukenga and Ngāpuhi iwi descent. Career Rare's screen debut was as Rata in the 1990 comedy film '' Ruby and ...