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
