Re

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RE may be an abbreviation or a word or name. It may refer to:

Words

re (re:), a word meaning "regarding, with reference to".
're, a contracted form of are, part of the English verb to be
Re, 'in the matter of...'; see the list of Latin phrases and In re
RE: or Re:, an email subject abbreviation meaning "in reply to" derived from latin In re.
re means again, e.g. re-reads
re, a chemical descriptor, see Prochirality
Re (exclamation), in Greek
Re (kana), the Japanese syllables written れ and レ
Re, the ancient Egyptian god Ra

Abbreviations, acronyms and codes

Re, or Reinsurance, a process whereby an insurer spreads its own risks
RE (automobile), a 1960s Rhodesian Formula One racing car
RE (complexity), the set of recursively enumerable languages
RE (e-mail), or "Re:", followed by the subject of a previous message indicates a reply to the subject of that message. It is an abbreviation from the legal Latin 'In re' = "in the matter of" (see Fowlers Modern English Language p. 653)
RE, the IATA code for Stobart Air, an Irish regional airline
RE, meaning rare earth, one of a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table
RE, meaning real estate, property consisting of land and the buildings on it
RE, meaning Reproductive endocrinologist, a doctor specializing in the field of fertility
RE, meaning rotary engine, an early type of internal-combustion engine
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), known until 1991 as the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, commonly called the Pauly–Wissowa or simply RE, a German encyclopedia of classical scholarship
Recursively enumerable set (r.e.), a special set S of natural numbers
Relative effectiveness factor, or R.E. factor, relates an explosive's demolition power to that of TNT
Resident Evil, a franchise of horror-adventure video games
Réunion, a French island (pop. ~800,000) near Mauritius, ISO 3166 digram and FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
- .re, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Réunion
Reuptake enhancer, a type of drug which enhances reuptake of a neurotransmitter
Reverse engineering, the process of taking something (a device, an electrical component, a software program, etc.) apart and analyzing its workings in detail
Requirements engineering during the development of computer programs
Rock-Eval, an apparatus for assessing the oil potential of a sedimentary rock, designed at the French Institute of Petroleum
Royal Engineers, a corps of the British Army
Religious education
Abbreviations of single words:
- Re(z) or $\Re$ : the real part in mathematics
- Reynolds number, in physics
- Réaumur scale degree of temperature (°Ré)
- Rhenium, a chemical element whose symbol is "Re"
- Re., or Rupee, a currency in many Asian countries

Geography

Re, Norway, a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway
Re, Sogn og Fjordane, a village in Gloppen municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway
Re, Piedmont, an Italian municipality
Île de Ré, an island off the west coast of France
- Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré, a commune on that island
Re di Anfo, a torrent (seasonal stream) in Italy
Re di Gianico, Re di Niardo, Re di Sellero, Re di Tredenus, torrents in the Val Camonica

People

Giovanni Battista Re, Italian cardinal
Cayetano Ré, former Paraguayan footballer with Asperger syndrome

Films

...Re (film), a 2016 Indian Kannada-language film

Music

Re, the second syllable of the scale in solfège
- Re, or D (musical note), the second note of the musical scale in fixed do solfège
Re: (band), a musical duo based in Canada and the United States

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