title: Ear (disambiguation)
text: # Ear (disambiguation)
  
  The ear is the sense organ that detects sound.
  
  Ear, EAR, or The Ear may also refer to:
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * EAR (band) (Experimental Audio Research), a project by musician Peter Kember
  * EAR Magazine, a monthly music magazine published 1973–1992
  * The Ear, 1970 Czech film
  
  ## 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 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 (mathematics), a type of polygon vertex
  * Ear (rune), rune of the Anglo-Saxon futhorc
  * East Area Rapist, a serial killer and rapist active in California between 1974 and 1986
  * Expired air resuscitation (or EAR), also known as rescue breathing
  