AE, Ae, ae, aE, Æ or æ may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''A.E.'' (video game), 1982 * ''Ae'' (film), a 2022 Sri Lankan film *

Autechre Autechre ( ) are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both from Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, they are among the best known acts signed to UK electronic label Warp Records, through which all o ...

, an electronic music group * ''

L'Année épigraphique ''L'Année épigraphique'' (''The Epigraphic Year'', standard abbreviation ''AE'') is a French publication on epigraphy (i.e the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing). It was set up by René Cagnat, as holder of the chair of 'Epigraphy a ...

'', a French publication on epigraphy * ''

Encyclopedia Dramatica Encyclopedia Dramatica (ED or æ; stylized as Encyclopædia Dramatica) is an online community website, centered around a wiki, that acts as a " troll archive" and its community members frequently participate in harassment campaigns. The site hos ...

'', often abbreviated æ *

Artix Entertainment Artix Entertainment, LLC is an independent video game developer and publisher Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free ...

, a video game developer and publisher

Language

Characters

* Æ or æ, a ligature or letter **

list of English words that may be spelled with a ligature This list of words that may be spelled with a ligature in English encompasses words which have letters that may, in modern usage, either be rendered as two distinct letters or as a single, combined letter. This includes ''AE'' being rendered as '' ...

, including "AE" being rendered as "Æ" * Ä or ä, a letter sometimes represented as "ae" * Ae (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic-script letter *

Ae (digraph) This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. In the list, letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetical order according to their base, e.g. is alphabetised with , not at the end of the alphabet, as it would be in Danish ...

, a Latin-script digraph

Languages and dialects

American English American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the United States, most widely spoken lang ...

, varieties of the English language native to the USA; abbr. AE, usually used in contrast to BE (British English). *

Avestan Avestan ( ) is the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. It belongs to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family and was First language, originally spoken during the Avestan period, Old ...

, a language, ISO 639-1 language code ae

People

* A. E. or Æ, a penname of George William Russell (1867–1935), Irish writer * A. E. Holt White (1851-1933), English writer and illustrator *

Anne Ellis Anne Ellis (1875–1938) was an American author and local official who wrote two memoirs chronicling her life in Colorado coal mining camps and her struggles with asthma including at sanitoriums. The University of Colorado awarded her an honorar ...

(1875 - 1938), American writer * Koichi Ae (born 1976), Japanese football player *

Alexander Emelianenko Alexander Vladimirovich Emelianenko (or Yemelianenko; rus, Александр Владимирович Емельяненко, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Emel'janenko, ɐlʲɪkˈsandr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ jɪmʲɪˈlʲjæ ...

(born 1981), Russian mixed martial artist, with AE Team

Places

* Ae, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland **

Water of Ae The Water of Ae is a tributary of the River Annan into which it flows west of Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway administrative county of South West Scotland in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ...

, a river *

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

, LOC MARC code *

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a Federal monarchy, federal elective monarchy made up of Emirates of the United Arab E ...

, ISO 3166-1 and FIPS 10-4 country code AE ** .ae, the top level domain for United Arab Emirates *

United States postal abbreviation Several sets of codes and abbreviations are used to represent the political divisions of the United States for postal addresses, data processing, general abbreviations, and other purposes. Table This table includes abbreviations for three ind ...

for US armed forces in Europe

Science and technology

Acoustic emission Acoustic emission (AE) is the phenomenon of radiation of acoustic (elastic) waves in solids that occurs when a material undergoes irreversible changes in its internal structure, for example as a result of crack formation or plastic deformation due ...

, the phenomenon of radiation of acoustic waves in solids *

Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Inc.; it is used for animation and in the post-production process of film making, video games and television production. Amo ...

, graphics software *

Adverse event In pharmaceuticals, an adverse event (AE) is any unexpected or harmful medical occurrence that happens to a patient during medical treatment or a clinical trial. Unlike direct side effects, an adverse event does not necessarily mean the medicati ...

, any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation *

Aeon The word aeon , also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timele ...

in astronomy, 10⁹ years *

Almost everywhere In measure theory (a branch of mathematical analysis), a property holds almost everywhere if, in a technical sense, the set for which the property holds takes up nearly all possibilities. The notion of "almost everywhere" is a companion notion to ...

, in mathematical analysis *

ASCII Express ASCII Express, also known as AE, is a telecommunications software developed specifically for the Apple II personal computers. Throughout the 1980s, ASCII Express garnered a reputation as the preferred programme among telecommunications enthusiasts ...

, computer software *

Authenticated encryption Authenticated Encryption (AE) is an encryption scheme which simultaneously assures the data confidentiality (also known as privacy: the encrypted message is impossible to understand without the knowledge of a secret key) and authenticity (in othe ...

, a form of encryption * Automatic exposure, a mode available on some cameras **

Canon AE-1 The Canon AE-1 is a 35 mm single-lens reflex camera, single-lens reflex (SLR) film camera for use with interchangeable lenses. It was manufactured by Canon Camera K. K. (today Canon Inc., Canon Incorporated) in Japan from April 1976 to 1984 ...

, a camera

Other uses

* Æ or AE, a numismatic abbreviation for "bronze" * American Eagle, a fashion company abbreviated as AE *

Air Efficiency Award The Air Efficiency Award, post-nominal letters AE for officers, was instituted in 1942. It could be awarded after ten years of meritorious service to officers, airmen and airwomen in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Auxiliary and Royal Air Force ...

, a British medal 1942–1999 * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Ammunition ship (AE) * Applied Engineering, a computer hardware retailer *

Mandarin Airlines Mandarin Airlines () is a Taiwanese regional airline based in Taipei, Taiwan whose parent company is China Airlines. The airline operates domestic and regional international flights, while its parent company focuses on international operations. ...

, a Taiwanese airline, IATA designator AE *

Toyota Corolla The is a series of compact cars (formerly Subcompact car, subcompact) manufactured and marketed globally by the Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. Introduced in 1966, the Corolla was the best-selling car worldwide by 1974 and has bee ...

, the fifth generation of which is referred to as "AE" *

Adult education Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained educating activities in order to gain new knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. Merriam, Sharan B. & Brockett, Ralph G. ''The Pr ...