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EA
- EA - (i) Electronic Attack - Engagement Area - Electronic Arts - (s) Exaampere
- EABU - (i) Explain Acronyms Before Use
- EAC - (i) Echelons Above Corps
- EAFUS - (i) "Everything" Added to Food in the United States (FDA list)
- EAPC - (i) Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
EB
- EBCDIC - (a/i) Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (pronounced "eb-see-dik") (cf. BCD)
- EBD - (i) Electronic Brake Distribution
- EBE - (i) Extraterrestrial Biological Entity
- EBO - (i/a) Effects Based Operations - Encyclopædia Britannica Online - European Board of Ophthalmology
- EBW - (i) Exploding BridgeWire
EC
- EC - (s) Ecuador (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) Electronic Combat - European Community (see EEC) - (s) Exacoulomb
- ECB - (i) European Central Bank - England (and Wales) Cricket Board
- ECCM - (i) Electronic Counter-Counter-Measures
- ECHR - (i) European Convention on Human Rights
- ECJ - (i) European Court of Justice
- ECL - (i) Emitter Coupled Logic (electronics)
- ECM - (i) Electronic Counter-Measures - Enterprise Content Management
- ECommHR - (p) European Commission on Human Rights
- ECS - (i) EOSDIS Core System - Extended Chip Set (computing)
- ECSC - (i) European Coal and Steel Community (distant ancestor of the EU)
- ECT - (i) ElectroConvulsive Therapy
- ECtHR - (p) European Court of Human Rights
- ECU - (s) Ecuador (ISO 3166 trigram) - (i) European Currency Unit (ancestor of the euro)
- ECW - Eastern Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling
ED
- EDAC - (a) Error Detection And Correction
- EDC-DAAC - (i) EROS Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
- EDECSIM - (p) Extended Directed Energy Combat Simulation
- ÉDF - (i) Électricité de France (French, "France Electric Utility")
- EDS - (i) Electronic Data Systems - Electronic Differential System
- EDT - (i) Eastern Daylight Saving Time (UTC-4 hours)
EE
- EE - (s) Estonia (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) Electrical engineering - Electrical Engineer
- E&E - (i) Escape and Evasion (training)
- EEC - (i) European Economic Community (predecessor of the EU)
- EEZ - (i) Economic Exclusion Zone
- EEG - (i) ElectroEncephaloGram
EF
- EF - (s) Exafarad
- EFF - (i) Electronic Frontier Foundation
- EFOA - (i) European Fuel Oxygenates Association
- EFSA - (i) European Food Safety Authority
- EFT - (i) Electronic Fund Transfer
- EFV - (i) Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
EG
- e.g. - (i) exampla gratia (Latin, roughly "for the sake of an example", "for example", "for instance")
- EG - (s) Egypt (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
- EGBUS - (i) External Genitalia, Bartholin's glands, Urethra & Skene's glands
- EGIS - (a) Erieye Ground Interface Segment
- EGY - (s) Egypt (ISO 3166 trigram)
EH
- EH - (s) Exahenry - Western Sahara (ISO 3166 digram)
- EHF - (i) Extremely High Frequency
- EHR - (i) Equipment History Record
EI
- Ei - (s) Exbi
- EI - (s) Ireland (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Eire)
- EIC - East India Company
- eID - electronic ID
- EIRP - (i) Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
EJ
EK
- EK - (s) Equatorial Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Exakelvin
- EKG - (i) Electrocardiogram (from German Elektrokardiogramm)
- EKMS - (i) Electronic Key Management System
EL
- EL - (s) Exalitre
- ELF (a/i) Earth Liberation Front - Endangered Language Fund - Eritrean Liberation Front - Executable and Linkable Format - Extremely Low Frequency
- ELINT - (p) Electronic Intelligence
- ELM - (i) Edge-Localised Mode (plasma physics)
- ELSS - (i) Emergency Life Support Stores
- ELT - (i) Emergency Locator Transmitter
EM
- Em - (s) Exametre
- EM - (i) ElectroMagnetism/ElectroMagnetic
- EMA - (i/a) European Medicines Agency
- EMC - (i) Electric Membership Corporation - Electromagnetic Compatibility - Electro-Motive Corporation - European Muon Collaboration - Evergreen Marine Corporation
- EMCON - (p) (Electromagnetic) Emissions Control
- EMD - (i) Engineering and Manufacturing Development - European Missile Defence
- EMDG - (i) Euro-Missile Dynamics Group
- EMEA - (i) Europe, Middle East and Africa
- EMF - (i) Electromotive force
- EMO - (i) Emergency Measures Organisation
- EMP - (i) ElectroMagnetic Pulse
- EMS - (i) Emergency Medical Services
- EMT - (i) Emergency Medical Technician
EN
- EN - (s) Corps of Engineers - Estonia (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Exanewton
- ENE - (i) East North-East
- ENT - (i) Ear, Nose and Throat
- ENTEC - (a) Euro NATO Training Engineer Centre
- ENY - (p) Enemy
EO
- EO - (i) Electro-Optics - Engagement Operations
- EOD - (i) Explosive Ordnance Disposal
- EOS - (i) Earth Observation Satellite
- EOSAT - (p) Earth Observation Satellite
- EOSDIS - (a/i) Earth Observation Satellite Data and Information System
- EOTS - (i) Electro-Optical Tactical Sensor
- EOM - (i) End of Message
EP
- EP - (i) Electronic Protection
- EPCOT - (a) Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow
- ÉPFL - (i) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (French, "Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology")
- EPGS - (i) EOS Polar Ground Sites
- EPIRB - (a/i) Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
- EPL - (i) English Premier League
- EPLRS - (a) Enhanced Position Location Reporting System ("ee-plarz")
- EPR - (i) European Pressurised * Reactor
- EPW - (i) Earth Penetrator Weapon/Warhead - Enemy Prisoner of War - Economic and Political Weekly (published from India)
EQ
ER
- Er - (s) Erbium
- ER - (i) Emergency Room - (s) Eritrea (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
- ERA - (i) Earned Run Average - Engineering Research Associates - Equal Rights Amendment - English Racing Automobiles - European Railway Agency
- ERCIM - (a/i) European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
- ERI - (s) Eritrea (ISO 3166 trigram)
- EROS - (a) Earth Resources Observation System
- ERP - (i) Engineer Regulating Point
- ERS - (i) Earth Resources Survey
- ERTS - (i) Earth Resources Technology Satellite (became Landsat)
ES
- Es - (s) Einsteinium - Exasecond
- ES - (s) El Salvador (FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) Electronic warfare Support - (s) Exasiemens - Spain (ISO 3166 digram; from España))
- ESA - (i) Electro-Spark Alloying - Endangered Species Act - European Space Agency
- ESC - (i) Embryonic Stem Cell
- ESD - (i) ElectroStatic Discharge
- ESDP - (i) European Security and Defence Policy
- ESE - (i) East South-East
- ESH - (s) Western Sahara (ISO 3166 trigram)
- ESL - (i) English as a Second Language
- ESM - (i) Electronic warfare Support Measures
- ESO - (i) European Southern Observatory
- ESOL - (a) English for Speakers of Other Languages
- ESP - (i) Electronic Stability Program - Extra-sensory perception - (s) Spain (ISO 3166 trigram)
- ESPN - (i) Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
- EST - (i) Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5 hours) - (s) Estonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
- ESU - (i) Emergency Services Unit
ET
- ET - (s) Ethiopia (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) - Exatesla - (i) Extra Terrestrial
- ETA - (i) Estimated Time of Arrival - (a) Euzkadi Ta Azkatasuna ("etta")
- et al. - (p) et alii/aliae/alia (Latin, "and others")
- ETC/RMT - (i) Explosive Transient Camera/Rapidly Moving Telescope
- ETF - (i) Emergency Task Force (a special police unit, also jocularly said to stand for Extra-Thick Fuzz)
- ETH - (s) Ethiopia (ISO 3166 trigram)
- ETI - (i) Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
- ETLA - (i) Extended TLA
- ETM - (i) Enhanced Thematic Mapper
- et seq. - (p) et sequens/sequentes/sequentia (Latin, "and the following one(s)")
EU
- Eu - (s) Europium
- EU - (s) Europa Island (FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) European Union
- EUCOM - (p) (U.S.) European Command
- EULA - (i) End-User License Agreement
EV
- EV - (s) Exavolt
- EVA - (i) Extra-Vehicular Activity
EW
- EW - (i) Electronic Warfare - (s) Exawatt
- EWR - (s) Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA airport code)
EX
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EZ
- EZ - (s) Czech Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) Extraction Zone
- EZLN - (a) Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
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