Kerr

//kɛɹ// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. countable, uncountable

Etymology

* As an English and Scottish topographic surname for someone who lived by a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, from Middle English kerr (“brushwood”), possibly related to Irish Gaelic ceàrr (“left-handed”) and/or Old Norse kjarr. * As an Irish surname, variant of Carr. * As a German surname, Americanized from Kehr. * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from mac gille chéir (“son of the dusky laid”), from ciar (“black”).

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Kerr CountyKerr black holeKerr cellKerr effectKerr geometryKerr metricKerr vacuumKerr-Newman black holeKerrs Creekmagneto-optic Kerr effect

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