E (disambiguation)

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E is the fifth letter of the Latin alphabet.

E may also refer to:

Commerce and transportation

  • €, the euro, the European currency unit
  • ℮, the estimated sign, an EU symbol indicating that the weight or volume of the goods is within specific allowable tolerances
  • E, international licence plate coding for Spain
  • E, a Polish electric locomotive in PKP classification system
  • E or Eni, an Italian oil and gas company

Medicine and genetics

  • E number, a number code for a food additive, an EU labelling requirement
  • Haplogroup E (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
  • Haplogroup E (Y-DNA), a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup
  • E or glutamic acid, an amino acid, glutamate
  • E. coli or Escherichia coli, a bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine
  • E. coli or Entamoeba coli, a non-pathogenic parasite frequently found in the human intestine
  • Vitamin E or Tocopherol, a class of chemical compounds

Physics and engineering

  • e (or e-) or electron, a fundamental subatomic particle
  • e or elementary charge, the absolute value of the electric charge carried by a single electron.
  • e or Coefficient of restitution (COR), a measure of the elasticity of a collision in mechanics
  • E, the symbol for energy in equations concerning mass-energy equivalence
  • E or Young's modulus, a measure of stiffness in solid mechanics
  • E or exa-, the SI prefix for 1018
  • E-layer or the Kennelly-Heaviside layer, part of the ionosphere
  • E, the symbol for an electric field
  • e or orbital eccentricity, a measure of how much a conic section deviates from a circle
  • E or Equal Energy spectrum, a definition of white in colour printing
  • E°, the Standard electrode potential

Mathematics and logic

  • e (mathematical constant), also known as Euler's number and Napier's constant, a transcendental number and the base of natural logarithms, approximately equal to 2.718
  • E notation, or scientific notation, a way of writing very large and very small numbers
  • ∃ (a backwards E) or existential quantification, the symbol for "there exists...", in predicate logic; ∃! meaning "there exists only one" (or "there exists exactly one") - see Uniqueness quantification
  • E, 14 in hexadecimal and other positional numeral system
  • E or Expected value, the average expected outcome of a trial in probability theory
  • e, the identity element

Computing and computation

Music

Television and film

  • E!, Entertainment Television, an American cable and satellite TV network
  • E! (Canada):
    • E! (Canadian TV system), a defunct over-the-air television system operated by Canwest from 2001 to 2009 (originally known as CH until 2007)
    • E! (Canadian TV channel), a Canadian cable/satellite specialty channel owned by Bell Media that launched in November 2010.
  • E (film), a 2005 Tamil film
  • E, or Edna Mode, a character from the movie The Incredibles
  • E, or Eric Murphy, a character from the television series Entourage

Geography

Languages

People

  • E (name) (Chinese: ), a Chinese family name. Also a given name.
  • E, a nickname of Mark Oliver Everett, musician and front man of the rock band Eels
  • e, a nickname of Eric Neustadter, Operations Manager for Xbox Live and frequent co-host of the "Major Nelson Radio" podcast

Other usage

  • or or (e) or (E) - circled-E or circled-E, see Enclosed Alphanumerics
  • e (novel), a 2000 comic novel by Matt Beaumont
  • E band, a range of radio frequencies used by NATO
  • E#, a team's elimination number
  • E, another name for the recreational drug Ecstasy, also called MDMA
  • E, or the Elohist, one of the four sources of the Torah
  • E, or Everyone, a video game rating symbol used by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)
  • E-Z notation, to indicate double bonds that two groups of higher priority are on opposite sides.

See also

  • E class (disambiguation)
  • Class E (disambiguation)
  • E-Type (disambiguation)
  • Eta
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