Near

NEAR or Near may refer to:

Science, mathematics, technology, biology, and medicine

Nicking Enzyme Amplification Reaction, a method for in vitro DNA amplification

Near-Earth object, an object in the Solar System whose orbit brings it close to the Earth

Near-Earth asteroid

Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

NEAR Shoemaker, a spacecraft that studied the near-Earth asteroid Eros

Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, a scientific instrument for infrared astronomy

Near Field Communication (NFC), a short-range wireless communication technology

N.E.A.R. (National Emergency Alarm Repeater), an obsolete civilian warning device in the United States

Nearness defined as it relates to Point-Set Topology, also known as proximity space

"Near", an interactive city browser application developed by NearGlobal

Geography

Near East

Ancient Near East

Near Eastern archaeology

Linguistics

Near-close vowel

Death Note

Death Note (Japanese: デスノート, Hepburn: Desu Nōto) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The story follows Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook from a shinigami named Ryuk that grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose name and face he knows. The series centers around Light's subsequent attempts to create and rule a world "cleansed of evil" as a "God" using this found notebook, and the efforts of a detective known as L to stop him.

Death Note was first serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006. The 108 chapters were collected and published into 12 tankōbon volumes between May 2004 and October 2006. A television anime adaptation aired in Japan from October 3, 2006, to June 26, 2007. Composed of 37 episodes, the anime was developed by Madhouse and directed by Tetsuro Araki. A light novel based on the series, written by Nisio Isin, was also released in 2006. Additionally, various video games have been published by Konami for the Nintendo DS. The series was adapted into three live-action films released in Japan on June 17, 2006, November 3, 2006, and February 2, 2008, and a television drama in 2015.

Almost

In set theory, when dealing with sets of infinite size, the term almost or nearly is used to mean all the elements except for finitely many.

In other words, an infinite set S that is a subset of another infinite set L, is almost L if the subtracted set L\S is of finite size.

Examples:

The set

S = \{ n \in \mathbf{N} | n \ge k \}

is almost N for any k in N, because only finitely many natural numbers are less than k.

The set of prime numbers is not almost N because there are infinitely many natural numbers that are not prime numbers.

This is conceptually similar to the almost everywhere concept of measure theory, but is not the same. For example, the Cantor set is uncountably infinite, but has Lebesgue measure zero. So a real number in (0, 1) is a member of the complement of the Cantor set almost everywhere, but it is not true that the complement of the Cantor set is almost the real numbers in (0, 1).

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Fighters loyal to the government gather at the site of a suicide car bombing in Yemen’s southern city of Aden, Yemen, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016.

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Sweden's Deputy PM Criticizes Trump While Signing New Carbon Emissions Law

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