Germ
Germ stands for:
- Embryo , stage of a living being from which the adult living being develops
- Keim (mathematics) , in mathematics the elements of a stalk of a sheaf
- Keim & Co. , a former toy company from Nuremberg that produced tin toys from 1866 to around 1980
- Pathogens , name of the medicine for a disease-causing (pathogenic) micro-organism. In connection with the terms germ count and germ content , non-pathogenic ( non-pathogenic ) microorganisms are also referred to as germs .
- Crystallization nucleus , in chemistry and physics solid particles in a fluid phase
- Seedling , young plant developing from the embryo
- Keim Peak , mountain in Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Germ paint , synonymous with silicate paint
Keim is the family name of the following people:
- Adolf Wilhelm Keim (1851–1913), German inventor and entrepreneur
- Andreas Keim (* 1962), German soccer player
- Anton Maria Keim (1928–2016), German historian and author
- August Keim (1845–1926), co-founder of the German Fleet Association and founder and chairman of the German Defense Association
- Daniel Keim , German computer scientist and university professor
- Dominik Keim (* 2001), German handball player
- Eric Keim (* 1981), American road cyclist
- Franz Keim (1840–1918), Austrian writer
- Friedrich Keim (1884–1972), German writer
- Friedel Keim (* 1939), German musician
- George May Keim (1805–1861), American politician
- Gottlieb Keim (1783–1868), German lawyer, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Josef Keim (1883–1973), German high school teacher and local researcher
- Karl Keim (1899–1988), German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Karl-Dieter Keim (* 1939), German spatial sociologist and author
- Karl Julius Keim (1823–1906), German poet doctor in Magdeburg
- Karl Theodor Keim (1815–1878), German Protestant theologian
- Lorenz Keim (1969–2012), South Tyrolean geologist
- Philipp Keim (1804–1884), Nassau poet and newspaper singer
- Ralph Keim (* 1964), German author
- Wilhelm Keim (1934–2018), German chemist
- Willi Keim (1927–2015), German soccer player
- William High Keim (1813–1862), American officer and politician
- Wolfgang Keim (* 1940), German educational scientist and university professor
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Wiktionary: Keim - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
