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Eleven Music

Eleven Music is a text-to-music model family from ElevenLabs, first released in August 2025, that generates complete songs with vocals and instrumentals from natural-language prompts.

Eleven Sports

Eleven Sports is a sports media company founded in 2015 by Andrea Radrizzani via Aser, streaming football and other sports in Belgium, Portugal, Taiwan and other markets; acquired by DAZN Group, completed February 2023.

Eleven-headed Kannon of Kōfuku-ji

The Eleven-headed Kannon of Kōfuku-ji (十一面観音, Jūichimen Kannon) is a wooden statue of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara carved in 1221 by the sculptor Zen'en for Kōfuku-ji temple in Nara.

Eleven-plus

Eleven-plus (11+), selective entrance exam taken at age 10-11 in England for grammar school admission. Originated in the 1944 Education Act's tripartite system; now locally set tests of English, maths, verbal and non-verbal reasoning across about 163 grammar schools.

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an American AI audio company founded in 2022 by Piotr Dąbkowski and Mati Staniszewski, known for generative voice tools like text to speech and voice cloning.

ElevenLabs Scribe

ElevenLabs Scribe is a family of speech-recognition models by ElevenLabs, first released in February 2025, with word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and coverage of roughly 90 to 99 languages.

Elevenses

Elevenses: British informal mid-morning break around 11 am with tea or coffee and a biscuit or snack. From dialectal 'elevens'; attested late 18th century; the Hobbits' second meal in Tolkien, unlike afternoon tea.

Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

Eleventh Amendment (1795) to the U.S. Constitution, a response to Chisholm v. Georgia, bars federal suits against states by out-of-state or foreign citizens, embodying state sovereign immunity with exceptions like Ex parte Young.

Eleventh Doctor

The Eleventh Doctor is the Doctor Who incarnation played by Matt Smith (2010-2013) under showrunner Steven Moffat, debuting in The Eleventh Hour and regenerating in The Time of the Doctor after receiving a new regeneration cycle on Trenzalore.

Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt

The Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt, also called Dynasty XI, was a Theban royal line, 2130–1990 BC, that reunified Egypt under Mentuhotep II and opened the Middle Kingdom.

Eleventh grade

Eleventh grade, or junior year, is the third year of US high school (grades 10-12, ISCED upper secondary), central to college admissions via the PSAT/NMSQT, SAT, and ACT; equivalents include Germany's grade 11-13 Abitur track and India's Class 11.

Eleventy

Eleventy is an open source static site generator written in JavaScript, created in 2018, that turns templates and content into static HTML with no client-side JavaScript by default.

ELEX

ELEX is a 2017 open-world science-fantasy action role-playing game by German studio Piranha Bytes, released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC and set on the comet-devastated planet Magalan.

Elex Michaelson

Elex Michaelson, born 1986 in Agoura Hills, California, is a CNN anchor hosting The Story Is with Elex Michaelson (2025); formerly KTTV FOX 11 evening anchor and creator of California's statewide political show The Issue Is (2018).

Elexacaftor

Elexacaftor (VX-445) is a CFTR corrector used with tezacaftor and ivacaftor as Trikafta/Kaftrio for cystic fibrosis; FDA-approved 2019, binds TMD1/TMD2 site, boxed liver-injury warning.

Eleyya

Eleyya (एळेय्य) was a rajah of Magadha and lay follower of the meditation teacher Rāmaputta, whom the Pali commentaries identify as Uddaka Rāmaputta; the brahmin minister Vassakāra reports his faith to the Buddha at Rājagaha.

Elf

Elf: a Germanic folklore being, Old English ælf, Old Norse álfr, Proto-Germanic albiz; once a humanlike otherworldly race linked to sacrifice, illness, and names like Alfred, later a small mischievous sprite and Tolkien-style figure.

Elf (Dungeons & Dragons)

Elf (Dungeons & Dragons): playable humanoid species since the 1974 game, adapted from Tolkien; long-lived (750 years), trance-sleeping, with high elf, wood elf, and drow subraces across five editions.

Elf (film)

Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau, starring Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised among Santa's elves who searches New York for his birth father.

Elf Aquitaine

Elf Aquitaine was a French oil and gas company formed in 1976 from state-owned predecessors, privatized in 1994, and taken over by TotalFina in 2000, later part of TotalEnergies.

Elf Bar

Elf Bar, sold in the US as EBCreate, is a Chinese-owned brand of flavored disposable e-cigarettes that became Britain's top vape brand in 2022 and was the most used among American teens by 2024.

Elf Bowling

Elf Bowling is a 1999 freeware Windows game by NStorm in which Santa bowls his striking elves as pins; it spread virally in early internet culture, spawned sequels including the shuffleboard Elves in Paradise, and a 2005 GBA/DS port scored 12 on Metacritic.

ELF3

ELF3 (ESE-1, ESX, ERT, EPR-1), E74 like ETS transcription factor 3 at 1q32.1, is an epithelium-specific ETS transcription factor regulating differentiation, EMT, inflammation, and cancers, acting as tumor suppressor or oncogene by context.

Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

Elfatih A. B. Eltahir is a Sudanese hydrologist and climatologist who holds the H. M. King Bhumibol Professorship at MIT, known for research on the Nile, extreme heat, and malaria.

Elfen Lied (エルフェンリート)

Elfen Lied (エルフェンリート) is Lynn Okamoto's 2002-2005 seinen manga about the horned mutant Diclonius Lucy and her invisible vector arms, adapted as a 13-episode 2004 ARMS anime with an original ending, later an influence on Stranger Things.

Elfenland

Elfenland is a 1998 Alan R. Moon board game from Amigo, winner of the Spiel des Jahres 1998, in which 2-6 elves visit 20 towns in four rounds using dragons, unicorns, and magic clouds; a simplified Elfenroads.

Elfetabart drozuntecan

DB-1311 (BNT324, elfetabart drozuntecan) is a DualityBio-discovered, BioNTech-partnered antibody-drug conjugate targeting B7-H3 with a topoisomerase-I inhibitor payload P1021, in phase 3 development for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Elfreth's Alley

Elfreth's Alley is a cobblestone residential street in Old City, Philadelphia, opened 1702-1704, with 32 Georgian and Federal houses, a National Historic Landmark, and a museum at 124-126.

Elfrid Payton

Elfrid Payton (born 1994, Gretna, Louisiana) is an American NBA point guard, 10th pick of the 2014 draft, All-Rookie First Team, known for triple-doubles with Orlando and play for five teams including the Hornets and Pelicans.

Elfrida Karlsone

Elfrīda Karlsone (Elfrīda Kukaine, later Bērziņa), Latvian athlete and one of Latvia's first women Olympians (Amsterdam 1928 discus, 14th); 52 Latvian records, unratified world marks in shot and javelin; later University of Western Ontario women's sport director. Not the Swedish skier Frida Karlsson.