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KE, ke, and variations may refer to:

Companies

• KE Holdings, a Chinese real estate broker
• Korean Air (IATA airline designator KE)

Language

• Ke (kana), the romanisation of the Japanese kana け and ケ
• Small ke (ヶ), a Japanese character, a small form of ke (ケ)
• Ke (Armenian letter)

People

• Ke (surname) (kē, 柯), a transliteration of a common Chinese surname
• Ké, stage name of New York singer/songwriter/actor Kevin Grivois

Places

• Kenya (ISO 3166 code KE)
• County Kildare, Ireland
• Košice, Slovakia

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• In toxicology, a Key Event or KE is an element in a chain of biological events (or adverse outcome pathway) that eventually leads to adverse effects.
• KE family, medical name for a family of Pakistani origin exhibiting a severe speech disorder
• Kinetic energy penetrator or KE penetrator, a type of ammunition designed to penetrate vehicle armour
• Elimination rate constant, a value used in pharmacokinetics to calculate the rate at which drugs are removed from the system
• The Chinese name of Lithocarpus glaber, the Japanese oak, a tree species

Computing and the internet

• .ke, internet top-level domain for Kenya
• Knowledge engineering, in computer science and in cognitive science

Physics

• Coulomb constant (k_e), in physics
• Kinetic energy, in physics

Other uses

• Ke (unit), a traditional Chinese unit of decimal time lasting either 14.4 minutes or 15 minutes
• Operation Ke, the successful Japanese withdrawal from Guadalcanal in the Second World War
• The model name for the first generation Mazda CX-5.