NEAR or Near may refer to:
People
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Thomas J. Near, US evolutionary ichthyologist
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Near, a developer who created the
higan emulator
Science, mathematics, technology, biology, and medicine
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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 elect ...
(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
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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 (and nicking enzyme) to expo ...
(NEAR), a method of DNA amplification
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NEAR Protocol
NEAR or Near may refer to:
People
* Thomas J. Near, US evolutionary ichthyologist
* Near, a developer who created the higan emulator
Science, mathematics, technology, biology, and medicine
* National Emergency Alarm Repeater (NEAR), a for ...
, a layer-1 blockchain
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NEAR Shoemaker
''Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker'' (''NEAR Shoemaker''), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Eugene Shoemaker, was a Robotic spacecraft, robotic space probe designed by the Johns ...
, 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, 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 their co ...
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Near space
Near space is the upper region of the Earth's atmosphere between airspace and outer space. It is sometimes referred to as the " edge of space". There is no legal definition for this extent, but typically this is the altitude range from .
Rang ...
, the upper atmosphere below outer space
Television, film, music, and books
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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 characte ...
, ''Nate River'', a character
Other uses
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Near v. Minnesota, a U.S. press freedom Supreme Court decision
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New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame
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