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Emacs

Emacs is a family of extensible text editors built around an embedded Lisp interpreter; GNU Emacs, begun by Richard Stallman in 1984, is the most widely used version.

Emacs Lisp

Emacs Lisp, also called Elisp, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language that serves as the extension language of GNU Emacs, in which most of the editor itself is written.

Emactuzumab

Emactuzumab (RG7155) is a humanized anti-CSF1R monoclonal antibody from Roche, now SynOx Therapeutics, that blocks receptor dimerization; it showed 86% ORR in diffuse-type tenosynovial giant cell tumor and is in the phase III TANGENT trial.

Emad Mostaque

Emad Mostaque is a British entrepreneur who founded Stability AI, the company behind the commercial rollout of Stable Diffusion, and resigned as its chief executive in March 2024.

Emad N. Eskandar

Emad N. Eskandar is an American neurosurgeon who chairs Neurological Surgery at Montefiore Einstein, having held the Pappas chair at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Emad S. Alnemri

Emad S. Alnemri is a molecular biologist at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia who studies apoptosis and inflammatory cell death, known for discovering the AIM2 inflammasome and named a National Academy of Inventors fellow in 2018.

Emad Tajkhorshid

Emad Tajkhorshid is an Iranian-born professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, best known for molecular dynamics simulations of membrane transport proteins like aquaporins.

eMagin

eMagin was a New York-based maker of OLED-on-silicon microdisplays used in military helmets, night vision goggles, and VR headsets, acquired by Samsung Display in 2023.

Emah

Emah (E-maḫ, "Exalted House") was the temple of the mother goddess Ninmah (Bēlet-ilī) at Babylon, beside the Ishtar Gate; excavated by Koldewey in 1900 and rebuilt under Nebuchadnezzar II and Ashurbanipal.

Email

Email, or electronic mail, is a method of exchanging typed messages over computer networks, first sent by Ray Tomlinson on the ARPANET in 1971 using the user@host address form.

Email address

An email address is an Internet identifier of the form local-part@domain that specifies a mailbox for electronic mail, defined in RFC 5322 and governed by SMTP.

Email client

An email client, or mail user agent, is software that lets a user compose, send, receive, read, and organize email as an app or via webmail.

Email marketing

Email marketing, also called email advertising or electronic direct marketing, sends promotional, newsletter, and transactional messages to subscribers, returning an estimated $36 to $42 per dollar spent.

Email spam

Email spam, also known as unsolicited bulk email or junk email, is unsolicited commercial email sent indiscriminately; the first such message went over ARPANET in 1978.

Email spoofing

Email spoofing is the forgery of an email's sender information so a message appears to come from a different domain, enabling phishing and business email compromise scams.

Email storm

An email storm, also called a reply-all storm or reply-allpocalypse, is a cascade in which reply-all messages to a large list multiply until they overwhelm mail servers.

Emails I Can't Send

Emails I Can't Send (emails i can't send) is Sabrina Carpenter's fifth studio album, released July 15, 2022 on Island Records; her first album off Disney's Hollywood Records, 13 tracks including Nonsense, Vicious, and because i liked a boy, with a March 2023 deluxe titled fwd:.

Emakimono

Emakimono (絵巻) is a Japanese narrative handscroll format combining text and pictures. This form arrived in Japan around the sixth century and flourished during the Heian and Kamakura periods.

Emakku Thozhil Romance

Emakku Thozhil Romance (எமக்கு தொழில் ரொமான்ஸ்) is a 2024 Tamil romantic comedy directed by Balaji Kesavan, starring Ashok Selvan as assistant director Umashankar and Avantika Mishra as nurse Leo, released 22 November 2024.

Emakong Patera

Emakong Patera, an IAU-named (1979) dark-floored volcanic patera about 80 km across on Jupiter's moon Io at 3.33S 119.82W, surrounded by bright radial lava flows and interpreted as a quiescent lava lake.

Emalahleni

Emalahleni (formerly Witbank) is a coal-mining city in Mpumalanga, South Africa; the name means 'place of coal' in Nguni languages. Founded 1903, renamed 2006, home to major coal mines and power stations. Distinct from the rural Eastern Cape municipality of the same name.

Emalex Biosciences

Emalex Biosciences was a Chicago biotechnology company founded in 2018 to develop treatments for central nervous system disorders, best known for the Tourette syndrome drug ecopipam.

Emam Ali Habibi

Emam Ali Habibi (امامعلی حبیبی گودرزی), the "Tiger of Mazandaran," was an Iranian freestyle wrestler (1931-2025) who won Iran's first Olympic gold at 1956 Melbourne and three world titles (1959, 1961, 1962).

Emam Ashour (إمام عاشور متولي عبد الغني)

Emam Ashour (إمام عاشور), Egyptian midfielder born 1998, plays for Al Ahly and Egypt. Zamalek and Al Ahly league titles, 2024 CAF Champions League, 2024-25 league top scorer with 13 goals.

Emamectin

Emamectin (emamectin benzoate, MK-244) is a semisynthetic avermectin insecticide introduced in 1997 as Proclaim/Affirm, controlling lepidopteran pests at 8-16 g/ha via glutamate-gated chloride channels, and used against sea lice in salmon.

Emami

Emami Limited is a Kolkata-headquartered Indian fast-moving consumer goods company founded in 1974 by R.S. Agarwal and R.S. Goenka, selling ayurvedic personal and healthcare products including BoroPlus, Navratna, and Zandu.

Eman Bacosa Pacquiao

Eman Bacosa Pacquiao (Emmanuel Joseph Bacosa, born 2004, Tagum) is a Filipino lightweight boxer, son of Manny Pacquiao; pro since 2023, record 8-2-1 with 5 KOs, Thrilla in Manila 2 winner, 2026 PBF title loss to Rodelyn Perez.

Eman Esfandi

Eman Esfandi (born 1994, Laredo, Texas) is an Iranian-Ecuadorian-American actor and musician (DragonWulf) who plays live-action Ezra Bridger in Ahsoka and appears in King Richard, The Inspection, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Eman Košpo

Eman Košpo, born 2007 in Suhr, Switzerland, is a Bosnian centre-back from GC Zürich and Barcelona's academy who joined Fiorentina in 2025, debuted for Bosnia in 2025, and now plays for Mantova on loan.

Emanationism

Emanationism, also called emanation metaphysics, holds that all reality flows by necessity from a transcendent source such as the Neoplatonic One, contrasting with free creation ex nihilo; classical form in Plotinus, later in Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and Islamic and Jewish philosophy.