The ear is the sense organ that detects sound.

Ear, EAR, or The Ear may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Ear (American band), an electronic music duo
  • Experimental Audio Research, or EAR, a project by musician Peter Kember
  • EAR Magazine, a monthly music magazine published 1973–1992
  • The Ear, 1970 Czech film
  • Playing by ear, a musical skill

Economics and finance

  • Economic activity rate, percentage of the population who constitutes the manpower supply of the labor market
  • Effective annual rate of interest

Government and politics

  • EAR, an acronym for the Greek Left party
  • European Agency for Reconstruction or EAR, a European Union agency
  • Export Administration Regulations or EAR, a short name for the US Code of Federal Regulations Title 15 chapter VII, subchapter C

Science

  • Ear (botany), the seed-bearing part of a cereal plant, such as wheat
  • Ear of corn, the grain-bearing part of the maize plant
  • Ear (mathematics), a type of polygon vertex
  • Ear moth or Amphipoea oculea, a moth in the family Noctuidae
  • East African Rift or EAR, a tectonic rift zone
  • eps-Associated RNA element (or EAR), a motif associated with exopolysaccharide biosynthesis
  • Estimated Average Requirements (or EAR) for nutritional needs

Transport

  • EAR, the FAA and IATA location identifier for Kearney Regional Airport, Nebraska, US
  • EAR, the National Rail code for Earley railway station, Berkshire, UK

Other uses

  • EAR (file format) ("Enterprise ARchive" format), a file format used to package Java programming language applications
  • Ear (rune), rune of the Anglo-Saxon futhorc
  • Expired air resuscitation (or EAR), also known as rescue breathing

See also

  • EARS (disambiguation)