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Emys

Emys (European pond turtles) is a genus of emydid freshwater turtles with two living species, the wide-ranging Emys orbicularis and the Sicilian endemic Emys trinacris, described in 2005; its generic limits are debated.

Emys orbicularis

Emys orbicularis, the European pond turtle, is a Emydidae freshwater turtle from Europe, North Africa, and western Asia; IUCN Near Threatened (Europe), Vulnerable (EU27), seven subspecies, declining from habitat loss and invasive sliders.

En (office)

En, meaning "lord", was a Sumerian title used by rulers of Uruk and, later, by high priestesses of the moon god Nanna at Ur, attested from about 3000 BC.

En (Н н) (Cyrillic)

En (Н н, эн) is a basic Cyrillic letter for /n/, encoded at U+041D/U+043D since Unicode 1.1, descended from the Greek-derived Cyrillic alphabet, and a false friend of Latin H.

EN 14214

EN 14214 is the European standard specifying requirements and test methods for biodiesel (FAME) used in diesel engines and heating, pure or as a blend component in diesel fuels such as EN 590.

EN 1990

EN 1990, titled Eurocode: Basis of structural design, is the head document of the European structural Eurocode suite, setting safety, serviceability, and durability requirements for structures.

EN 206

EN 206 is a European standard prepared by CEN titled Concrete – Specification, performance, production and conformity, covering specifying, producing, and assessing concrete; its successor parts appeared in 2026.

EN 50128

EN 50128 is a European CENELEC standard for developing software for railway control and protection systems such as interlocking and automatic train protection, first published in 2001.

EN 50160

EN 50160 is a CENELEC European standard, titled Voltage characteristics of electricity supplied by public electricity networks, defining expected voltage quality at user supply terminals.

En banc

En banc, from French "on the bench," is a procedure in which all qualified judges of a U.S. court of appeals hear or rehear a case together, governed by FRAP 35 and the consolidated Rule 40.

En Besor

En Besor is a small archaeological site in the northern Negev, Israel, where an Egyptian First Dynasty settlement served as a staging post on the route to Canaan.

En bloc resection

En bloc resection is the removal of an entire tumor in a single piece so margins can be fully examined, chiefly done by endoscopic submucosal dissection.

En bloc spondylectomy

En bloc spondylectomy is a spine oncology operation removing a tumor-bearing vertebra in one or two pieces with healthy-tissue margins, used mainly for chordomas and giant cell tumors.

En el teocalli de Cholula

"En el teocalli de Cholula" is an 1820 meditative poem by the Cuban poet José María Heredia, considered a precursor of romantic poetry in Hispanic America.

En Iniya Iyanthira

En Iniya Iyanthira is a Tamil science fiction novel by Sujatha, serialized in the 1980s, set in a future dictatorial India and starring the robotic dog Jeeno.

En la masmédula

En la masmédula is the final book of poetry by the Argentine avant-garde poet Oliverio Girondo, first published in 1954, an experiment with coined Spanish words.

En la sangre

En la sangre is an 1887 novel by the Argentine writer Eugenio Cambaceres, the Spanish American work most faithful to Zola's naturalism, dramatizing elite anxiety over immigration.

En number

The En number is a normalized error statistic used in proficiency testing to compare a laboratory's measured value with a reference value, defined in ISO 13528.

En passant

En passant, French for "in passing," is a special chess pawn capture of a pawn that has just advanced two squares, legal only on the next move.

En perseguirme, Mundo, ¿qué interesas?

"En perseguirme, Mundo, ¿qué interesas?" ("In pursuing me, World, what do you gain?") is a sonnet by the Mexican Baroque nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

En plein air

En plein air, French for "in the open air," is outdoor painting directly from the subject. Associated with the Impressionists, it developed via Valenciennes, the Barbizon school, and the 1841 collapsible paint tube.

En Route Automation Modernization

En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) is the Federal Aviation Administration's automation platform at all 20 en route centers in the continental United States, fully deployed in March 2015.

En Sarithiram

En Sarithiram (என் சரித்திரம், "My History") is the autobiography of U. V. Swaminatha Iyer, the Tamil scholar and manuscript hunter known as Tamil Thatha, serialized from 1940 to 1942 and published as a book in 1950.

En suite bathroom

An en suite bathroom is a bathroom joined directly onto a bedroom, for the use only of the people occupying that bedroom rather than opening onto a shared corridor.

En Vogue

En Vogue is an American all-female R&B and soul vocal quartet formed in Oakland, California, in 1989, which sold more than 20 million albums worldwide.

En-me-nuna

En-me-nuna is a legendary early ruler of Kish named in the Sumerian King List, fifth of the First Dynasty, assigned a 660-year reign and succeeded by his son Melem-Kish.

En-men-dur-ana

En-men-dur-ana, also written Enmeduranki, is the legendary seventh antediluvian king of Sippar in the Sumerian King List, a figure later linked to the biblical patriarch Enoch.

En-men-gal-ana

En-men-gal-ana (Sumerian en-me-en-gal-an-na; Enmegalanna) is a legendary antediluvian king of Bad-tibira in the Sumerian King List, second between En-men-lu-ana and Dumuzid, with a mythical reign of 28,800 years.

En-men-lu-ana

En-men-lu-ana is the third legendary antediluvian king in the Sumerian King List, a ruler of Bad-tibira credited with a 43,200-year reign and known only from later copies of the list.

En-nun-tarah-ana

En-nun-tarah-ana is the ninth king of the First Dynasty of Uruk in the Sumerian King List, credited with an 8-year reign and known from no contemporary inscription.