Re
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RE may be an abbreviation or a word or name. It may refer to:
Words
- re (re:), a word meaning "regarding, with reference to".
- 're, a contracted form of are, part of the English verb to be
- Re, 'in the matter of...'; see the list of Latin phrases and In re
- RE: or Re:, an email subject abbreviation meaning "in reply to" derived from latin In re.
- re means again, e.g. re-reads
- re, a chemical descriptor, see Prochirality
- Re (exclamation), in Greek
- Re (kana), the Japanese syllables written れ and レ
- Re, the ancient Egyptian god Ra
Abbreviations, acronyms and codes
- Re, or Reinsurance, a process whereby an insurer spreads its own risks
- RE (automobile), a 1960s Rhodesian Formula One racing car
- RE (complexity), the set of recursively enumerable languages
- RE (e-mail), or "Re:", followed by the subject of a previous message indicates a reply to the subject of that message. It is an abbreviation from the legal Latin 'In re' = "in the matter of" (see Fowlers Modern English Language p. 653)
- RE, the IATA code for Stobart Air, an Irish regional airline
- RE, meaning rare earth, one of a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table
- RE, meaning real estate, property consisting of land and the buildings on it
- RE, meaning Reproductive endocrinologist, a doctor specializing in the field of fertility
- RE, meaning rotary engine, an early type of internal-combustion engine
- Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), known until 1991 as the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
- Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, commonly called the Pauly–Wissowa or simply RE, a German encyclopedia of classical scholarship
- Recursively enumerable set (r.e.), a special set S of natural numbers
- Relative effectiveness factor, or R.E. factor, relates an explosive's demolition power to that of TNT
- Resident Evil, a franchise of horror-adventure video games
- Réunion, a French island (pop. ~800,000) near Mauritius, ISO 3166 digram and FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
- .re, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Réunion
- Reuptake enhancer, a type of drug which enhances reuptake of a neurotransmitter
- Reverse engineering, the process of taking something (a device, an electrical component, a software program, etc.) apart and analyzing its workings in detail
- Requirements engineering during the development of computer programs
- Rock-Eval, an apparatus for assessing the oil potential of a sedimentary rock, designed at the French Institute of Petroleum
- Royal Engineers, a corps of the British Army
- Religious education
- Abbreviations of single words:
- Re(z) or : the real part in mathematics
- Reynolds number, in physics
- Réaumur scale degree of temperature (°Ré)
- Rhenium, a chemical element whose symbol is "Re"
- Re., or Rupee, a currency in many Asian countries
Geography
- Re, Norway, a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway
- Re, Sogn og Fjordane, a village in Gloppen municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway
- Re, Piedmont, an Italian municipality
- Île de Ré, an island off the west coast of France
- Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré, a commune on that island
- Re di Anfo, a torrent (seasonal stream) in Italy
- Re di Gianico, Re di Niardo, Re di Sellero, Re di Tredenus, torrents in the Val Camonica
People
- Giovanni Battista Re, Italian cardinal
- Cayetano Ré, former Paraguayan footballer with Asperger syndrome
Films
- ...Re (film), a 2016 Indian Kannada-language film
Music
- Re, the second syllable of the scale in solfège
- Re, or D (musical note), the second note of the musical scale in fixed do solfège
- Re: (band), a musical duo based in Canada and the United States