Vera
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Vera may refer to:
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Other uses
- Vera (given name)Vera (given name)Vera is a female first name of Latin origin meaning truth, or of Slavic origin meaning faith.- People :*Vera Brittain , English writer*Vera Dushevina , Russian tennis players...
- Vera (surname)Vera (surname)A person:*Last name**Augusto Vera , Italian philosopher**Brandon Vera, a professional mixed martial arts fighter**Enrique Vera, Paraguayan football player**Heidi Puurula , member of Finnish band Aikakone...
Places
- Vera, Santa FeVera, Santa FeVera is a city in the north of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is the head town of the Vera Department and lies 256 km from the provincial capital . It has a population of about 20,000 inhabitants ....
, Argentina- Vera DepartmentVera DepartmentThe Vera Department is an administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the center-north of the province...
, Argentina
- Vera Department
- Vera, Croatia, a village near TrpinjaTrpinjaTrpinja is a village and municipality in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. There are 1,537 inhabitants in village Trpinja and 5,680 inhabitants in the municipality according to the 2011 census. The majority of the population are Serbs, making up 89.29% of the population according to...
- Vera, Mozambique
- Vera, Almería, Spain
- Vera, OklahomaVera, OklahomaVera is a town in Washington County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 188 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Vera is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
, United States - Vera, Georgia
- Vera, NorwayVera, NorwayVera is a village in the municipality of Verdal in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the lake Veresvatnet, about west of the hborder with Sweden, about south of the edge of Blåfjella–Skjækerfjella National Park, and about east of the village of Vuku...
Entertainment;
- Vera (film)Vera (film)Vera is a Brazilian film written and directed by Sérgio Toledo , and starring Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Norma Blum, Raul Cortez and Carlos Kroeber....
, a film based about Sandra Mara Herzer - Vera (TV series)Vera (TV series)Vera is a British detective television series based on the works of crime author Ann Cleeves. It stars Brenda Blethyn and is broadcast on ITV1.-Summary:...
, a 2011 British series - Vera (novel)Vera (novel)Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim is a black comedy based on her disastrous second marriage to Earl Russell: a mordant analysis of the romantic delusions through which wives acquiesce in husbands' tyrannies. In outline the story of this utterly unromantic novel anticipates DuMaurier's Rebecca. Naive Lucy...
, a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim - Vera; or, The NihilistsVera; or, The NihilistsVera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia. It was the first play that Wilde wrote. It was produced in the United Kingdom in 1880, and in New York in 1882, but it was not a success and folded in both cities...
, a play by Oscar Wilde - "Vera" (song)Vera (song)"Vera" is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their 1979 album, The Wall. The title is a reference to Vera Lynn, a British singer who came to prominence during World War II with her popular song "We'll Meet Again". The reference is ironic, as Roger Waters would not meet his father, lost in the war...
, a song by Pink Floyd from The Wall
Other uses
- Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus, an early videotape format
- VERA passive sensorVERA passive sensorVERA -VERA passive radiolocator is an electronic support measures system that uses measurements of time difference of arrival of pulses at three or four sites to accurately detect and track airborne emitters....
, a Czech passive sensor system - 245 Vera245 Vera245 Vera is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an S-type asteroid.It was discovered by N. R. Pogson on February 6, 1885 in Madras.- References :*[ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database]**...
, an asteroid - Bitstream VeraBitstream VeraVera is a group typeface with a liberal license.It was designed by Jim Lyles from Bitstream, and it is closely based on Bitstream's Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It is a TrueType font with full hinting instructions, which improve its rendering quality on low-resolution devices such...
, a family of typefaces - The Vera ProjectThe VERA ProjectThe Vera Project, or VERA, is an all-ages, non-profit youth arts organization in Seattle, Washington.-About:Based on the Vera club in Groningen, Netherlands, Seattle's VERA Project was founded in 2001 by James Keblas, Shannon Stewart , and Kate Becker , along with the help of many other...
, a music-based, non-profit organization in Seattle, Washington - Vienna Environmental Research AcceleratorVienna Environmental Research AcceleratorThe Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator, VERA, is a particle accelerator. It is operated by the University of Vienna and is dedicated to Accelerator Mass Spectrometry . It started operation in 1995...
, a particle accelerator - Verawood or vera, the wood of Bulnesia trees
- Vera (horse), winner of the 1883 Kentucky OaksKentucky OaksThe Kentucky Oaks is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies staged annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The race currently covers 1⅛ miles at Churchill Downs; the horses carry 121 pounds . The Kentucky Oaks is held on the Friday before the Kentucky Derby each year...
- Vera (archbishop) of the Archdiocese of TarragonaArchdiocese of TarragonaThe Archdiocese of Tarragona is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Tarragona, part of the autonomous community of Catalonia...
- Vera (Groningen), pop center in Groningen
- Vera, a character on Barrio SésamoBarrio SésamoBarrio Sésamo was the Spanish version of the popular U.S. children's program Sesame Street. The show premièred in 1979...
- Vera, character Jayne Cobb's favorite gun on Firefly
See also
- OpenVeraOpenVeraOpenVera is a dead Hardware Verification Language developed, and managed by Synopsys.OpenVera is an interoperable, open hardware verification language for testbench creation. The OpenVera language was used as the basis for the advanced verification features in the IEEE Std...
, a hardware verification language - Tropical Storm Vera (disambiguation)