Pear (disambiguation)

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Pear may refer to:

• Pear, trees of the genus Pyrus and the fruit of that tree, edible in some species
• Pear of Anguish, a mediaeval torture device
• Pear shaped, a colloquial term for when things go wrong

Pear or Pears may also refer to:

• Pears Cyclopaedia, a one-volume encylopædia published in the United Kingdom
• Peter Pears, an English tenor
• Iain Pears, an English writer and historian
• Andrew Pears, originator of Pears soap.
• Pear Tree House, a Civil defence control centre in London
• PearPC, an open-source PowerPC emulator

PEAR may stand for:

• PHP Extension and Application Repository, a computer programming framework and distribution system for PHP code components
• Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab, a program to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice