Appendix Acronyms E

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Acronyms - E

E East

E Espionage

EADASS Engineering and Administrative Data AcquiSition System

EAFB Edwards Air Force Base [Space]

EAN Certainly part of an X.400 Address in Europe

EARN European Academic Research Network

EAS Extended Area Service (or Engineering Admin. System)

EASI European Academic Supercomputer Initiative (of IBM)

EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

EC Exchange Carrier [Telephony]

ECAFE Economic Commission for Africa and the Far East

ECASS Electronically Controlled Automatic Switching System

ECASS Export Control Automated Support System

ECC Error Correction Code

ECC Error Correction Code (corrects error in memory or transmission)

ECCM Electronic Counter-CounterMeasures

ECDO Electronic Community Dial Office

ECG ElectroCardioGram

ECL Emitter Coupled Logic (see also TTL)

ECLSS Environmental Control and Life Support System [Space]

ECM Electronic Counter Measure

ECM European Common Market

ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association

ECO Ecological

ECO Electronic Central Office

ECO Engineering Change Order

ECPA Electronic Communications Privacy Act [US law]

ECS Environmental Control System [Space]

ECT ElectroConvulsive Therapy

ECV Electric Cargo Vehicle [NASA OEXP]

ED&D Expert Dungeons & Dragons

EDGAR Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval

EDI Electronic Data Interchange

EDIF Electronic Design Interchange Format

EDO Extended Duration Orbiter [Space]

EDP Electronic Data Processing

EDS Electronic Data Systems

EDT Eastern Daylight Time

EDTA Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid

EDTCC Electronic Data Transmission Communications Central

EE Electrical Engineer

EE Electrical or Electronics Engineer

EEC European Economic Community

EEC European Economic Comunity

EEG ElectroEncephaloGram

EEL Epsilon Extension Language

E&EO Errors and Omissions Excepted

EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation

E.g. ??? (Latin(?): for example)

EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter

EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol [Internet]

EGRET Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (on GRO) [Space]

EHF Extremely High Frequency (30-300GHz)

EIA Electronic Industries Association

EINE EINE Is Not Emacs

EISA Extended Industry-Standard Architecture

EISS European Intelligence Support System

EKG ElectroKardioGramm (see ECG)

EL ElectroLuminescent (as in display)

ELF Extremely Low Frequency

ELO Electric Light Orchestra

ELP Emerson, Lake and Palmer (or Powell)

ELV Expendable Launch Vehicle [Space]

E&M ``Ear and Mouth''; receive and transmit leads of a signalling system

EM Enlisted Man (see EW)

EMA Electronic Mail Association

EMACS Editor MACroS

EMACS Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping

E-MAIL Electronic MAIL

EMF ElectroMotive Force

EMF ElectroMotive Force (voltage)

EMI ElectroMagnetic Interference

EMP Electromagnetic Pulse

EMPRESS EnvironMental Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships

EMR ElectroMagetic Response

EMR ElectroMagnetic Response

EMS Electronic Message System

EMS Extended Memory Specification

EMT Emergency Medical Technician

EMU ElectroMagnetic Unit

EMU Extravehicular Mobility Unit [Space]

ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

ENS ENSign

EO End Office [Telephony]

EO Erasable Optical

EOF End Of File

EOM End Of Month

EOS Earth Observing System [Space]

EOWG Engineering and Operations Working Group (under FNC)

EP Experience Points

EP Extended Play

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EPOS Engineering and Project-management Oriented Support system

EPRI Electric Power Research Institute

EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EPS Encapsulated PostScript

EPT Empire of the Petal Throne

EQ Educational Quotient (see IQ)

ER Emergency Room

ERA Earned Run Average

ERA Entity-Relationship-Attribute

ERA Equal Rights Amendment

ERD Entity-Relation Diagram

ERE Entity Relationship Editor

ERT Earth Resources Technology [Space]

ES Expert System

ESA European Space Agency

ESA European Space Agency [Space]

ESAC Electronic Systems Assistance Center

ESDI Enhanced Standard Device Interface

ESE East South East

ESF Extended Superframe Format [Telephony]

ESM Electronic Support Measures

ESnet Energy Sciences network (DoE) [Networking]

ESO European Southern Observatory

ESO European Southern Observatory [Space]

ESP Extra Sensory Perception

ESPS Entropic Signal Processing System

ESS Electronic Switching System [Telephony]

ESSEX Experimental Solid State EXchange

EST Eastern Standard Time

ET Eastern Time

ET Extra Terrestrial [Space]

ET (Shuttle) External Tank [Space]

ETA Estimated Time of Arrival

ET/ACC External Tank/Aft Cargo Carrier (see also ET) [Space]

ETC Et cetera, and so on...

ETD Estimated Time of Departure

ETFD Electronic Toll Fraud Device [Telephony]

ETH Eidgn\:oessiche Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym [Space]

ETO Earth-to-Orbit [Space]

ETR Eastern Test Range [Space]

ETS Electronic Translator System

ETV Education TeleVision

EUUG European Unix User Group

EUV Extreme UltraViolet

EUV Extreme UltraViolet [Space]

EUVE Extreme UltraViolet Explorer [Space]

EVA ExtraVehicular Activity

EVA ExtraVehicular Activity [Space]

EVX Electronic Voice eXchange

EW Electronic Warfare

EW Enlisted Woman (see EM)

EWOS European Workshop for Open Systems