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Emre Can

Emre Can, born 1994 in Frankfurt, is a German midfielder-defender and Borussia Dortmund captain since 2023, formerly of Bayern Munich, Leverkusen, Liverpool, and Juventus, with 48 Germany caps.

Emre Fel

Emre Fel, real name Emre Öztürk, is a Turkish singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in 1998, known for his "Yeni Anadolu" style that updates Anatolian rock, with the hit "Sana El Pençe Durmam".

Emre Mor

Emre Mor, born 1997 in Copenhagen, Turkish left-footed winger; Nordsjaelland, Borussia Dortmund, Celta Vigo, Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, now NEC Nijmegen; 15 Turkey caps.

Ems

Ems (Pleiades 108961, BAtlas 11 H2) is the Roman site at Bad Ems on the Lahn, Germany: 1st-century silver-prospecting camps with preserved wooden spike defenses, a Limes cohort fort, and UNESCO-listed frontier components.

Ems Ukaz

The Ems Ukaz, also known as the Ems Act or Yuzefovich law, was a secret decree by Tsar Alexander II in 1876 banning most Ukrainian-language publications in the Russian Empire.

EMS-Chemie Holding

EMS-Chemie Holding AG is a Swiss specialty chemicals group headquartered in Domat/Ems, in the canton of Graubünden, that concentrates on high-performance polyamide compounds and automotive adhesives, sealants, and coatings.

Emscripten

Emscripten is an open source compiler toolchain that compiles C and C++ code, or any LLVM-based language, into WebAssembly for the Web and Node.js; it was created by Alon Zakai.

Emsland nuclear power plant

The Emsland nuclear power plant (Kernkraftwerk Emsland, KKE) was a pressurized water reactor at Lingen in Lower Saxony, Germany, operating from 1988 until its shutdown in April 2023.

Emsland power station

The Emsland power station, also known as Gaskraftwerk Emsland, is a natural-gas-fired power station operated by RWE in Lingen, Germany, with three units totaling 1,828 MW.

Emsworth

Emsworth is a harbourside town in Havant borough, Hampshire, at the head of Chichester Harbour on the River Ems. First recorded in 1216, it was a leading English oyster port until the 1902 typhoid outbreak that killed the Dean of Winchester closed its harbour.

Emtee

Emtee (Mthembeni Ndevu, born 1992, Matatiele) is a South African rapper behind "Roll Up" and African trap music; platinum debut Avery, Emtee Records founder, Logan and The Trap Temptations chart-topper.

Emtricitabine

Emtricitabine (FTC, Emtriva) is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor approved by the FDA in 2003 for HIV-1 treatment; with tenofovir it forms Truvada and Descovy, used for treatment and PrEP, and is clinically interchangeable with lamivudine.

Emtricitabine/tenofovir

Emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (FTC/TDF, Truvada) is a fixed-dose HIV pill approved for treatment in 2004 and as the first PrEP drug in 2012; pooled trials show RR 0.46 versus placebo, with adherence-dependent effectiveness and renal/bone cautions.

Emu

The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is Australia's tallest native bird, a flightless ratite found only in Australia. Males incubate 5–15 dark green eggs for about 55 days without eating; extinct dwarf island forms existed.

Emu (BAAI multimodal family)

Emu is a family of multimodal AI models from the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, released from 2023 to 2025 and trained to generate text, images, and video.

Emu Bay Shale

Emu Bay Shale: early Cambrian (~512 Ma) Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätte on Kangaroo Island, South Australia; over 50 soft-bodied species, discovered 1954, fan delta in tectonically active basin.

Emu War

The Great Emu War (1932), a pest-control operation in Western Australia's Wheatbelt where Major G.P.W. Meredith and three Royal Australian Artillery soldiers with two Lewis guns and 10,000 rounds failed to cull about 20,000 crop-destroying emus near Campion.

Emu3

Emu3 is a family of multimodal AI models developed by BAAI that generates and understands text, images, and video using only next-token prediction, first released in September 2024.

Emulator

Emulator: software or FPGA hardware that reproduces one computing system on another, letting console, arcade, and vintage computer software run on modern platforms; central to digital preservation, with accuracy-versus-performance tradeoffs, MAME, and copyright constraints.

Emulex (explosive)

Emulex is a brand name for a family of packaged and bulk emulsion explosives, water-in-oil blasting agents based on ammonium nitrate, named by Atlas Powder Company, which patented the technology in 1969.

Emulsion

An emulsion is a fluid colloidal system in which droplets of one liquid are dispersed in another immiscible liquid, most commonly oil in water or water in oil.

Emulsion polymerization

Emulsion polymerization is a free-radical process that polymerizes water-insoluble monomers in water with surfactant and a water-soluble initiator, yielding a latex of about 100 nm polymer particles.

Emulsion solvent diffusion method

The emulsion solvent diffusion method, also called emulsification-diffusion, is a technique for making polymeric nanoparticles and microparticles, in which solvent diffusion into water precipitates the polymer around a drug.

Emulsion templating

Emulsion templating is a materials-processing technique where emulsion droplets serve as sacrificial templates for pores; the droplets are removed after the surrounding phase solidifies, leaving a porous material.

Emun Elliott

Emun Elliott (born 1983, Edinburgh; birth name Emun Mohammedi) is a Scottish actor trained at RSAMD, known for Black Watch, Prometheus, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Game of Thrones, Guilt, The Gold, and Sexy Beast.

Emund the Old

Emund the Old (Emund den gamle, Emund Slemme), king of Sweden c. 1050–1060, illegitimate son of Olof Skötkonung, half-brother of Anund Jakob; last king of the old line, favored an independent Swedish church, succeeded by Stenkil.

Emutbal

Emutbal, also written Yamut-Bal, was an ancient land east of the Tigris River, rising in 1834 BC under the Amorite Kudur-Mabuk and taken over by Hammurabi in 1763 BC.

EMV

EMV, also known as Chip and PIN, is the international standard for smart payment cards named for Europay, Mastercard, and Visa, whose chips generate one-time cryptograms.

Emydidae

Emydidae, pond turtles and terrapins (Rafinesque, 1815), a monophyletic family of about 52 freshwater and semi-terrestrial turtle species in 12 genera, split into Emydinae and Deirochelyinae, native mainly to the Americas with Emys in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Emydura

Emydura, short-necked side-necked freshwater turtles (Chelidae) of Australia and New Guinea; type species Emydura macquarii; species include krefftii, subglobosa, tanybaraga, victoriae, australis; genetically conservative, taxonomically difficult genus.