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Einthoven's triangle

Einthoven's triangle: imaginary equilateral triangle of bipolar limb leads I, II, III (RA, LA, LL corners), described by Willem Einthoven in 1912 for frontal-plane cardiac axis calculation; basis of Einthoven's law.

Eintracht Braunschweig

Eintracht Braunschweig (BTSV Eintracht von 1895 e.V., Die Löwen), German football club founded 1895, Bundesliga founding member 1963, champions 1966/67, first German club with jersey advertising (Jägermeister 1973), now in 2. Bundesliga.

Eintracht Frankfurt

Eintracht Frankfurt, German Bundesliga football club founded 1899 (Frankfurter FC Victoria); 1959 champions, 1980 UEFA Cup and unbeaten 2022 Europa League winners; member-owned 67.89% under 50+1, over 155,000 members, €389.1m revenue 2024/25, plays at Deutsche Bank Park.

Eion

Eion (Ἠϊών) was an ancient Greek port at the mouth of the Strymon river in Thrace, on Profitis Ilias hill; founded in the 7th century BC, taken by Cimon in 477/6 BC, and later the port of Amphipolis.

Eion Bailey

Eion Bailey (Eion Francis Hamilton Bailey, born 1976) is an American actor from Santa Ynez Valley, California, known for Fight Club, Almost Famous, Band of Brothers, Once Upon a Time, and as Jim Matthews in From.

EIP Deep Decarbonization Frontier Fund I

EIP Deep Decarbonization Frontier Fund I is a New York-based climate tech venture fund managed by Energy Impact Partners that closed at $485 million in 2022.

Eip Flagship

EIP Flagship is the fund family for Flagship Fund III, Energy Impact Partners' third flagship private equity fund, which closed at $1.36 billion in October 2025.

Eipper Quicksilver

The Eipper Quicksilver is a family of American ultralight aircraft that began as a rigid-wing hang glider in the early 1970s at Dick Eipper's Eipper-Formance.

Eir Macula

Eir Macula is a 145-km-wide dark spot (macula) on Titan at 24°S, 114.7°W, named for the Norse goddess of healing and peace and adopted by the IAU in 2006; one of seven named Titan maculae.

EIRA trial

EIRA trial (NCT03136211): Spanish cluster-randomised hybrid type 2 trial in 25 primary care centres, 3062 adults 45-75, testing a Transtheoretical Model multiple health behaviour change intervention for smoking, diet, and physical activity versus usual care.

Eiraku Tsūhō

Eiraku Tsūhō (永楽通宝, Chinese: Yongle Tongbao) was a Ming dynasty copper one-mon coin, cast in China from 1408 and imported into Japan in large quantities as its standard currency until 1609.

Éire

Éire is the Irish-language name for Ireland and, under Article 4 of the 1937 Constitution, the constitutional name of the Irish state, alongside "Ireland" in English. From Old Irish Ériu; formerly official as Eire, 1937–49.

Eirene (moon)

Eirene, officially Jupiter LVII and once designated S/2003 J 5, is a small retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter in the Carme group, discovered by Scott S. Sheppard in 2003.

EirGrid

EirGrid is Ireland's state-owned electricity transmission system operator, running the national grid and interconnectors to Great Britain, and jointly operating the Single Electricity Market with SONI.

Eirik Kvalfoss

Eirik Kvalfoss, born 1959 in Voss, Norway, is a former biathlete, 1984 Olympic 10 km sprint champion at Sarajevo and three-time world champion (1982, 1983, 1989), also overall World Cup winner.

Eiríks saga rauða

Eiríks saga rauða, or the Saga of Erik the Red, is a 13th-century Icelandic family saga telling of Erik the Red's settlement of Greenland and Norse voyages to Vinland.

Eiroku Incident

The Eiroku Incident, also called the Eiroku Coup (永禄の変), was the killing of shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru by Miyoshi-led forces at Nijō Palace in Kyoto in 1565.

Eisai

Eisai is a Japanese research-based pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1936, known for Aricept, Lenvima, and Leqembi, an Alzheimer's drug developed with Biogen.

Eisaku Satō

Eisaku Satō (佐藤榮作) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister from 1964 to 1972, the longest tenure at the time, and won the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize.

Eisaya Hosuwan (อิษยา ฮอสุวรรณ)

Eisaya Hosuwan (อิษยา ฮอสุวรรณ), nicknamed Oom (อุ้ม), is a Thai Channel 3 actress born 1996 in Udon Thani, known for Grace in Bad Genius (2017) and Jaiphisut in Dhevaprom: Jaiphisut (2024), with films totaling over 2,400 million baht.

Eisbach Surfer Wave

Eisbachwelle (Eisbach Surfer Wave), Munich's standing river wave on the man-made Eisbach canal near the Haus der Kunst; surfed since 1972, legalized 2010, experts only, reopened 8 May 2026 after a fatal accident and disappearance.

Eisbrecher

Eisbrecher is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band formed in 2003 by Alexx Wesselsky and Noel Pix, known for German-language vocals over electronics and guitar.

Eisegesis

Eisegesis is reading one's own ideas into a text, especially Scripture, the opposite of exegesis; coined from Greek eis plus exegesis, first recorded 1859-1892, and a derogatory term in biblical studies.

Eisenheim the Illusionist

Eisenheim the Illusionist is Steven Millhauser's short story about a legendary stage magician in fin-de-siècle Hapsburg Vienna, told as pseudo-journalistic reportage, whose illusions subvert the Empire before he vanishes; adapted as the 2006 film The Illusionist.

Eisenhower dollar

The Eisenhower dollar, or Ike dollar, is a United States one-dollar coin struck from 1971 to 1978, bearing President Dwight D. Eisenhower and an eagle adapted from the Apollo 11 insignia.

Eisenhower Executive Office Building

The Eisenhower Executive Office Building, formerly the Old Executive Office Building, is a French Second Empire federal office building next to the White House, built between 1871 and 1888.

Eisenhower Tunnel

The Eisenhower Tunnel is the westbound bore of the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel, a dual-bore tunnel on Interstate 70 about 60 miles west of Denver that crosses the Continental Divide.

Eisenia fetida

Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826), the red wiggler or tiger worm, is an epigeic lumbricid earthworm used for vermicomposting and OECD 222 ecotoxicology tests; its sibling species Eisenia andrei is nearly identical, and DNA barcoding is needed to tell them apart.

Eisenmann

Eisenmann is a German plant engineering company based in Böblingen that builds industrial paint shops, conveyor systems, and material flow automation, chiefly for automotive manufacturing.

Eisenmenger syndrome

Eisenmenger syndrome, also called Eisenmenger complex, is advanced pulmonary arterial hypertension with congenital heart disease in which a shunt reverses to right-to-left flow, causing cyanosis, erythrocytosis, and reduced survival; shunt closure is contraindicated.