Ker (surname) Ker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alice Stewart Ker (1853–1943), Scottish doctor and suffragette
* Allan Ebenezer Ker (1883–1958), Scottish army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Ker Chien-ming (born 1951) ...
** Ker, family name of the
Dukes of Roxburghe
The Duke of Roxburghe () is a title in the peerage of Scotland created in 1707 along with the titles ''Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford'', ''Earl of Kelso'' and ''Viscount Broxmouth''. John Ker, 5th Earl of Roxburghe became the first holder ...
** Frederick Ker, the appellant in the U.S. Supreme Court case '' Ker v. Illinois''
* Ker, a spelling of the Guo surname
* Ker, a
Keres
In Greek mythology, the Keres (; Ancient Greek: Κῆρες) were female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. Although they were present during death and dyin ...
Kerala
Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...
, an Indian state (postal code:KER)
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Kerang railway station
Kerang railway station is located on the Piangil line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Kerang, and it opened on 25 October 1884.Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani Airport, Kerman, Iran (IATA:KER)
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County Kerry
County Kerry () is a Counties of Ireland, county on the southwest coast of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. It is bordered by two other countie ...
, Ireland (Chapman code:KER)
Mathematics and physics
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kinetic energy recovery system
A kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) is an automotive system for recovering a moving vehicle's kinetic energy under braking. The recovered energy is stored in a reservoir (for example a flywheel or high voltage batteries) for later use under ...
(KER)
* ker, or
kernel
Kernel may refer to:
Computing
* Kernel (operating system), the central component of most operating systems
* Kernel (image processing), a matrix used for image convolution
* Compute kernel, in GPGPU programming
* Kernel method, in machine learnin ...
, in its various senses
* Ker, one of the
Kelvin functions
In applied mathematics, the Kelvin functions ber''ν''(''x'') and bei''ν''(''x'') are the real part, real and imaginary parts, respectively, of
:J_\nu \left (x e^ \right ),\,
where ''x'' is real, and , is the ''ν''th order Bessel function of t ...
Other uses
*'' Capparis decidua'', or ker, a tree and fruit used in various Indian cuisines
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VIXX 2016 Conception Ker
''VIXX 2016 Conception Ker'' (stylized as ''VIXX 2016 CONCEPTION Κήρ'') is the second compilation album by South Korean boy band VIXX. The special album was released on November 21, 2016 under Jellyfish Entertainment, supported by a music vide ...