NEAR or Near may refer to:

People

* Thomas J. Near, US evolutionary ichthyologist * Near, a developer who created the

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Science, mathematics, technology, biology, and medicine

National Emergency Alarm Repeater The National Emergency Alarm Repeater (NEAR) was a civilian emergency warning device in the United States. It was a 2–3" (5–7.5 cm) square box designed to plug into a standard power outlet to receive a special signal sent over the electri ...

(NEAR), a former alarm device to warn civilians of a foreign nuclear attack on the United States * National Emergency Airway Registry (NEAR), a

patient registry Disease or patient registries are collections of secondary data related to patients with a specific diagnosis, condition, or procedure, and they play an important role in post marketing surveillance of pharmaceuticals. Registries are different from ...

for intubations in the United States *

Nicking enzyme amplification reaction Nicking Enzyme Amplification Reaction (NEAR) is a method for ''in vitro'' DNA amplification like the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). NEAR is isothermal, replicating DNA at a constant temperature using a polymerase A polymerase is an enzyme ( EC ...

(NEAR), a method of DNA amplification *

NEAR Shoemaker ''Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker'' (''NEAR Shoemaker''), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labora ...

, a spacecraft that studied the near-Earth asteroid Eros * Nearness or

proximity space In topology, a proximity space, also called a nearness space, is an axiomatization of the intuitive notion of "nearness" that hold set-to-set, as opposed to the better known point-to-set notion that characterize topological spaces. The concept was ...

*"Near", a city browser by

NearGlobal ''NearGlobal'' is a London, UK, based software developer and publisher of Near, a 3D city browser platform and virtual world technology that delivers survey-accurate models of real-world cities that users can explore and interact with from thei ...

Television, film, music, and books

Near (Death Note) The manga series ''Death Note'' features an extensive cast of fictional characters designed by Takeshi Obata with their storylines created by Tsugumi Ohba."How to Think." ''Death Note: How to Read 13''. VIZ Media. 59. The story follows the n ...

, ''Nate River'', a character

Other uses

* Near v. Minnesota, a U.S. press freedom Supreme Court decision * New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame {{disambig