KE

KE, ke, and variations may refer to:

Language

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

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

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 (ke), 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
 * Korean Air (IATA airline designator KE)
 * Operation Ke, the successful Japanese withdrawal from Guadalcanal in the Second World War
 * KE Adventure Travel LTD is a worldwide tour operator based in Keswick, United Kingdom.
 * The model name for the first generation Mazda CX-5.