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Electrotonic potential
Electrotonic potential (electrotone): a graded, passive local change in membrane potential that spreads with decrement along neurons, described by cable theory and the length constant λ, unlike the all-or-none action potential.
Electrovaya
Electrovaya is a Canadian lithium-ion battery technology and manufacturing company founded in 1996 in Mississauga, Ontario, known for its ceramic-enhanced Infinity Battery Technology and a Jamestown, New York manufacturing plant.
Electroweak baryogenesis
Electroweak baryogenesis (EWBG) is a proposed mechanism in which the universe's matter-antimatter asymmetry was generated during the electroweak phase transition, proposed in 1985 by Kuzmin, Rubakov, and Shaposhnikov.
Electroweak interaction
The electroweak interaction, also known as the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model, is the unified description of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces, formulated in the 1960s and honored with the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Electroweak precision observables
Electroweak precision observables are measured quantities, such as the Z and W boson masses and the weak mixing angle, tested against Standard Model predictions through a global fit.
Electroweak symmetry breaking
Electroweak symmetry breaking is the process in the Standard Model by which the Higgs field splits the unified electroweak force into electromagnetic and weak interactions, giving particles mass.
Electrowetting
Electrowetting is the voltage-induced change in a liquid's contact angle on a surface, described by the Young–Lippmann equation and used in liquid lenses, displays, and digital microfluidics.
Electrowinning
Electrowinning is an electrochemical metallurgy method that passes electric current through an electrolyte to deposit dissolved metals, such as copper or zinc, onto a cathode, typically after leaching.
Electrum
Electrum, also called green-gold, is a naturally occurring gold-silver alloy whose color ranges from pale yellow to white, used for the first coins struck in Lydia around 650 BCE.
Eleda Stadion
Eleda Stadion (Malmö New Stadium in UEFA play) is Malmö FF's 22,500-seat home ground in Malmö, opened 2009, designed by C.F. Møller, renamed from Swedbank Stadion in 2019, record crowd 24,148.
Eledon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Eledon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., formerly Novus Therapeutics, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Irvine, California, developing the antibody tegoprubart, which targets the CD40L pathway to protect transplanted organs from rejection.
Elefant
The Elefant, also known as the Elephant tank, was a heavy tank destroyer used by Germany in World War II, first serving as the Ferdinand at Kursk in 1943.
Elefant Traks
Elefant Traks is an independent, artist-run hip hop and electronic record label based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 1998 by Kenny Sabir, which broke The Herd, Hermitude, and Horrorshow before closing in 2024.
Eleftheria Maratos–Flier
Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, also cited as E. Maratos-Flier, is a physician and neuroendocrinologist who spent most of her career at Harvard and Joslin, known for work on MCH and FGF21.
Eleftheria Zeggini
Eleftheria Zeggini is a Greek geneticist who directs the Institute of Translational Genomics at Helmholtz Munich and led genome-wide association studies of type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis.
Eleftherios Mylonakis
Eleftherios Mylonakis is a Greek-born infectious diseases physician-scientist who chairs medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital, known for a 2001 review of infective endocarditis and synthetic retinoid antibiotics that kill MRSA persisters.
Eleftherios P. Mamounas
Eleftherios P. Mamounas is an American breast surgical oncologist at the AdventHealth Cancer Institute in Orlando who led the NSABP B-51 trial, reported in 2025, showing nodal irradiation can be omitted.
Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis
Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis is an American chemical engineer at the University of Delaware, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for metabolic engineering.
Eleftherios Venizelos (Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος)
Eleftherios Venizelos (Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) was a Greek statesman, born in Ottoman Crete, who served as Prime Minister of Greece and is regarded as modern Greece's most important statesman.
Elegant Angel
Elegant Angel (Elegant Angel Productions) is an American gonzo adult film studio founded in 1990 in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, by Patrick Collins; once an Evil Angel subsidiary, operated by Exquisite Multimedia since 2015, known for the Buttwoman showcase series.
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden (杏园雅集图) is a Ming dynasty handscroll attributed to court painter Xie Huan, recording a 1437 garden party of nine senior Ming officials in Beijing.
Elegg
Elegg (일레그) is a fictional SSR support character in Goddess of Victory: Nikke, released February 22, 2024; leader of the Electric Shock squad, voiced in Korean by Kim Hyeon-ji (김현지), not a performer.
Elegia
Elegia is a genus of about 50 evergreen, reed-like flowering plants in the family Restionaceae, endemic to South Africa's Cape Provinces and a main component of fynbos vegetation.
Elegiac couplet
Elegiac couplet (elegiac distich): classical two-line verse unit of one dactylic hexameter plus one dactylic pentameter; Greek in origin, Rome's meter of love elegy and epigram.
Elegies of Propertius
The Elegies of Propertius are four books of Latin elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Sextus Propertius (ca 50–16 BC), the first three dominated by his love for Cynthia.
Elegies of Theognis
The Elegies of Theognis, also called the Theognidea, are a corpus of roughly 1,389 ancient Greek elegiac verses attributed to Theognis of Megara of the sixth century BCE.
Elegua
Elegua, also spelled Eleggua, is the Yoruba orisha of crossroads, doorways, and paths, a divine messenger honored first in every rite in Santería and Candomblé.
Elegy
Elegy: poetic form with a double meaning, ancient Greek elegiac couplet (hexameter plus pentameter) for any subject, and modern poem of mourning; also Persian marṯīa, defined by lament, praise, consolation stages.
Elegy for a Polish Boy
"Elegy for a Polish Boy" (Elegia o... [chłopcu polskim]) is a 1944 war poem by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, written as a mother's farewell to her soldier son.
Elegy of Fortinbras
Elegy of Fortinbras (Polish: Tren Fortynbrasa) is a 1957 poem by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert in which Fortinbras, who closes Shakespeare's Hamlet, delivers a monologue over the dead Hamlet.