Mer Explained

Mer or MER may refer to:

Business

• Management expense ratio
• Market exchange rate
• Merrill Lynch's former NYSE stock symbol

People

• Francis Mer (born 1939), a French businessman, industrialist and politician, former Minister of the Economy
• Gideon Mer (1894-1961), an Israeli scientist working mostly on the eradication of malaria
• M.E.R. (Maria Elizabeth Rothmann), an Afrikaner writer
• Mer (community), a community found primarily in the Indian state of Gujarat

Places

• Mer, Loir-et-Cher, a commune in the Loir-et-Cher département of France
• Merionethshire, historic county in Wales, Chapman code MER
• Murray Island, Queensland, known locally as Mer, an Australian island

Sports

• Meralco Bolts, a team in the Philippine Basketball Association

Science

• Mer, a synonym for repeat unit in chemistry
• Mer, a type of geometric isomer of octahedral complexes (see fac–mer isomerism)
• -mer, an affix meaning "part", used in several words in chemistry and biology
• MERTK, MER, or proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase MER, a human enzyme
• Membrane estrogen receptor, or mER, a receptor for estrogen
• Proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase MER (or MERTK or Mer)
• abbreviation of Meridional, a direction on a globe
• Mercury transporter, Mer Superfamily of transport proteins

Technology

• Mer (software distribution), a software distribution for operating systems based upon the Linux kernel targeted at mobile devices
• Mars Exploration Rover, one of a pair of robotic rovers exploring the surface of Mars
• Modulation error ratio, a measure in communications for evaluation of digital transmission equipment
• Mechanical equipment room or mechanical room, used for HVAC, water heaters, plumbing and electrical equipment
• Project Mer, a 1958 U.S. Navy human spaceflight proposal to the Advanced Research Projects Agency

Transport

• Manx Electric Railway, an interurban tramway on the Isle of Man
• Merthyr Tydfil railway station (National Rail station code), a railway station in Wales
• Merri railway station, Melbourne

Other uses

• MER, acronym for "Minimum Essential Requirements"
• Mer (community), a community native to the Porbandar region in Saurashtra, India
• Mer, a planet from The Pirates of Dark Water
• Mer, a race in the Elder Scrolls series of video games
• Mer, a given name related to Margarete
• Mer (in French mɛʁ/), the French word for "sea"
• "Mer", a song by band Hyukoh
• Mer language (disambiguation)
• Middle East Report, a publication of the Middle East Research and Information Project
• Movement for European Reform, a pan-European political group

See also

• La mer (disambiguation)
• Mers (disambiguation)
• Merfolk (disambiguation), name of the half human, half fish undersea species for the fictional mermen and mermaids
• Mar (disambiguation)
• Mir (disambiguation)
• Merr (disambiguation)
• Meher (disambiguation)
• Mur (disambiguation)
• Murre (bird)
• Myrrh