Yar
Encyclopedia
Yar may refer to:
Rivers
In Russia:
In fiction:
Other uses:
Rivers
- Western YarWestern YarThe River Yar on the Isle of Wight, England, rises near the beach at Freshwater Bay, on the south coast of the island and flows only a few miles north to Yarmouth, on the north coast, where it meets the Solent. Most of the river is a tidal estuary...
, Isle of Wight, England - Eastern YarEastern YarThe River Yar on the Isle of Wight, England, rises in a chalk coomb in St. Catherine's Down near Niton, close to the southern point of the island...
, Isle of Wight, England - River YareRiver YareThe River Yare is a river in the English county of Norfolk. In its lower reaches the river connects with the navigable waterways of The Broads....
, in East Anglia, England
In Russia:
- Yar, RussiaYar, RussiaYar is the name of several rural localities in Russia:*Yar, Baykalovsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, a village in Baykalovsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast*Yar, Talitsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, a selo in Talitsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast...
, name of several inhabited localities in Russia
In fiction:
- Tasha YarTasha YarLieutenant Natasha "Tasha" Yar, played by Denise Crosby, is a character in Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the fictional series, the character served as chief of security aboard the USS Enterprise-D for the first season....
, a fictional character on Star Trek: The Next Generation - The hero in the video game Yars' RevengeYars' RevengeYars' Revenge is a video game developed for the Atari 2600 in 1981. It was created by Howard Scott Warshaw, who also wrote the 2600 titles Raiders of the Lost Ark and the much-derided E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...
Other uses:
- Yar (gene)Yar (gene)In molecular biology, Yar is a long non-coding RNA found in Drosophila. It is located within a neuronal gene cluster between the yellow and achaete genes. It is found in the cytoplasm of cells and is required for the regulation of sleep....
, a long non-coding RNA gene found in Drosophila
See also
- Babi YarBabi YarBabi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union. The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29–30, 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed in a...
, a ravine in Kiev where mass murders took place during World War II - YARSYARSTyrosyl-tRNA synthetase, cytoplasmic is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the YARS gene.-Further reading:...
, an enzyme in humans encoded by the YARS gene