AE

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The form Æ or æ is also a letter and ligature in the Latin alphabet.

AE can mean:

• The Air Efficiency Decoration (UK Honour in the Royal Air Force)
• "Action Express", a term coined in the mid-1800s which describes bullets of unusually high velocity. The term itself is based on express trains of the era. Use of "AE" in modern weapons is rare; the most common example, however, is the Desert Eagle and its .50AE round.
• Adaptive Equalizer (telecommunications equipment)
• Aeronautical Engineering
• Adverse event in a clinical trial
• Aggregate Expenditure, in economics
• Agricultural Engineering
• Albert Einstein, famous scientist
• American Eagle Outfitters, a Pittsburgh based clothing company
• American English, the English language of the United States
• Americana Exchange, a website devoted to antiquarian and rare book collecting.
• Adobe After Effects, a piece of software used for compositing and motion graphics
• Ammunition Ship, a United States Navy hull classification symbol
• Applied Engineering, a computer peripheral company centered on the Apple II computer
• Artificial evolution
• ASCII Express, a computer terminal program with file transfer capabilities
• Auto Europe, a car rental consolidator
• Australian English, the English language of Australia
• Canon AE-1
• Æ stands for copper and its alloys (such as bronze), in the field of numismatics (from the Latin Æs)
• George William Russell, the Irish mystic, used Æ as a penname
• Mandarin Airlines (IATA airline designator)
• Fifth generation of Toyota Corolla, also called "AE".
• United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166-1 country code)
• The postal abbreviation for United States armed forces in Europe, Canada, the Middle East, and Africa
• Anderson Ericson Dairy Company, based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Ae can mean:

• The transcription of the letter Ä of the German language alphabet.
• Ae, Dumfries and Galloway, a small village in the south of Scotland, south of Thornhill. It has probably the shortest placename in the British Isles and is within the Forest of Ae, managed by Forest Enterprise, part of the Forestry Commission.
• Autechre, an intelligent dance music act

ae can mean:

• Avestan language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code)
• ae, a digraph
• Lee Young-ae

[edit] See also

• List of words with "ae" in alternate spellings