Ear (disambiguation)

The ear is the sense organ that detects sound.

Ear or The Ear may also refer to:

Places

• EAR, FAA and IATA location identifier for Kearney Regional Airport
• East African Rift or EAR, a tectonic rift zone

People

• East Area Rapist or EAR, serial killer and rapist also known as Golden State Killer

Arts, entertainment, and media

• EAR (band) (Experimental Audio Research), a project by musician Peter Kember
• EAR Magazine, a monthly music magazine published 1973–1992
• The Ear, 1970 Czech film

Economics and finance

EAR is an acronym for:

• Economic activity rate, percentage of the population who constitutes the manpower supply of the labor market
• Effective annual rate of interest

Government and politics

• EAR, an acronym for the Greek Left party
• European Agency for Reconstruction or EAR, a European Union agency
• Export Administration Regulations or EAR, a short name for the US Code of Federal Regulations Title 15 chapter VII, subchapter C

Science

• Ear (botany), the seed-bearing part of a cereal plant, such as wheat
  • Ear of corn, the grain-bearing part of the Maize plant
• eps-Associated RNA element (or EAR), a motif associated with exopolysaccharide biosynthesis
• Estimated Average Requirements (or EAR) for nutritional needs
• Ear moth or Amphipoea oculea, a moth in the family Noctuidae

Other uses

• EAR (file format) ("Enterprise ARchive" format), a file format used to package Java programming language applications
• Ear (mathematics), a type of polygon vertex
• Ear (rune), rune of the Anglo-Saxon futhorc
• Expired air resuscitation (or EAR), also known as rescue breathing

See also

• EARS (disambiguation)