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Enfilade and defilade
Enfilade and defilade are military tactics terms: enfilade is fire directed along a target's long axis, defilade is shelter from enemy fire behind terrain or obstacles, with machine-gun, fortification, and urban-warfare applications.
Enflame
Enflame Technology is a Shanghai-based AI accelerator company founded in 2018 by former AMD engineers, backed by Tencent and listed on Shanghai's STAR Market in 2026.
Enflurane
Enflurane (Ethrane) is a halogenated ether used as an inhalational anesthetic for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia; FDA-approved in 1972, it was withdrawn from the US market.
Enforceability of marital agreements
Enforceability of marital agreements concerns whether prenuptial, postnuptial, or separation agreements bind the parties, with US statutes favoring enforcement and UK courts reviewing fairness under Radmacher.
Enforced disappearance
Enforced disappearance, also known as involuntary disappearance, occurs when state agents deprive someone of liberty and then deny it or conceal their fate, leaving them outside the law's protection.
Enforcement Directorate
Directorate of Enforcement (ED), India's financial investigation agency under the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance. Enforces PMLA, FEMA, and FEOA; established 1956; headquartered in New Delhi; investigates money laundering, attaches assets, and prosecutes economic offenders.
Enforcement of spousal maintenance orders
Enforcement of spousal maintenance orders is the recovery of unpaid spousal maintenance through courts and agencies, using wage garnishment, bank account freezing, and sanctions such as license and passport refusal.
Enforcer (ice hockey)
Enforcer (ice hockey): unofficial NHL player role, also called goon, whose job is fighting and retaliating against opponents. Declined since the 1992 instigator rule and 2005 salary cap; linked to shorter lives and CTE.
Enformer
Enformer is a deep learning model from Google DeepMind and Calico, introduced in 2021, that predicts gene expression directly from DNA sequence using a transformer architecture.
Enfortumab vedotin
Enfortumab vedotin (Padcev, enfortumab vedotin-ejfv), a nectin-4-targeted antibody-drug conjugate for urothelial bladder cancer; FDA approved 2019; EV-301 and EV-302 survival results; boxed skin-reaction warning.
Enfuce
Enfuce is a Finnish financial technology company based in Helsinki, founded in 2016, providing cloud-based card issuing and issuer processing for banks, fintechs, and other brands.
Enfuvirtide
Enfuvirtide, also known as T-20 or Fuzeon, is a 36-amino-acid peptide that blocks HIV-1 entry into cells, FDA-approved in 2003 as the first fusion inhibitor and given by twice-daily injection.
Eng (letter)
Eng, also known as engma or angma, is a Latin alphabet letter (Ŋ, ŋ) that represents the velar nasal sound heard in the ng of English sing.
Eng H. Lo
Eng H. Lo, also published as Eng Lo, is a neuroscientist who studies stroke and traumatic brain injury at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he leads the Neuroprotection Research Laboratory.
Eng M. Tan
Eng M. Tan, born Eng Meng Tan (1926–2024), was a Malaysian-born American physician-scientist at Scripps Research whose discovery of autoantibody markers transformed the diagnosis of lupus and scleroderma.
Enga Province
Enga Province is a Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, 583 km northwest of Port Moresby, with capital Wabag, 571,060 people (2021), and the Porgera gold mine.
Enga Veettu Pillai (எங்க வீட்டுப் பிள்ளை)
Enga Veettu Pillai (எங்க வீட்டுப் பிள்ளை), 1965 Tamil masala film directed by Tapi Chanakya, starring M. G. Ramachandran in a double role as Ramu and Ilango; a remake of Ramudu Bheemudu, released 14 January 1965, silver jubilee hit, later remade as Ram Aur Shyam.
Engaeyum Eppothum (எங்கேயும் எப்போதும்)
Engaeyum Eppothum (Engeyum Eppodhum, எங்கேயும் எப்போதும்) is a 2011 Tamil romantic drama road film by M. Saravanan, produced by A. R. Murugadoss and Fox Star Studios, starring Jai, Anjali, Sharwanand, and Ananya; two love stories converge in a bus accident.
Engaged to the Unidentified
Engaged to the Unidentified, also known as Mikakunin de Shinkoukei, is a Japanese manga series serialized in Monthly Comic Rex and adapted into a 2014 anime by Doga Kobo.
Engagement
Engagement, historically called betrothal, is the period between the promise to marry and marriage, once a binding legal contract and today a social commitment marked by proposals, engagement rings, and studied effects on later marital stability.
Engagement ring
Engagement ring: a ring signaling betrothal, from Roman iron pledge hoops and the 1477 Maximilian-Mary of Burgundy diamond ring to the De Beers "A Diamond is Forever" campaign and today's lab-grown diamond market shift.
Engativá
Engativá is the tenth locality of Bogotá, Colombia, in the northwest, formed from a Muisca settlement that became a Spanish colonial town and was annexed in 1954.
Engel v. Vitale
Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), the Regents' Prayer case: the Supreme Court held 6-1 that state-composed, nondenominational school prayer in New York public schools violates the First Amendment Establishment Clause.
Engelbert Dollfuss
Engelbert Dollfuß (also Dollfuss, 1892–1934), Austrian Christian Social Federal Chancellor 1932–1934, suspended parliament in 1933, founded the Fatherland Front, built the authoritarian Ständestaat after the February 1934 civil war, and was assassinated by Austrian Nazis in the July 1934 putsch.
Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921) was a German composer and teacher whose fairy-tale opera Hänsel und Gretel, premiered in 1893, made him the creator of the German Märchenoper genre.
Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)
Engelbert Humperdinck, stage name of Arnold George Dorsey (born 1936, Madras, India), British easy-listening singer; 1967 hit "Release Me" beat the Beatles to UK No. 1; over 150 million albums sold.
Engelbert Kaempfer
Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), German physician and traveler; Swedish legation to Persia, Persepolis cuneiform pioneer, VOC surgeon on Deshima 1690-92; author of Amoenitates Exoticae and History of Japan; manuscripts in the British Library.
Engelier (crater on Iapetus)
Engelier, a 504 km impact basin on Iapetus's bright southern trailing hemisphere at 40.5S, 264.7W, IAU-named in 2008 after a Song of Roland peer; it destroyed about half of the neighboring Gerin basin and hosts long lobate landslides.
Engels
Engels (Энгельс) is a city in Saratov Oblast, Russia, on the left bank of the Volga opposite Saratov, founded in 1747 and renamed in 1931 after Friedrich Engels.
Engelsberg Ironworks
Engelsberg Ironworks (Engelsbergs bruk), a preserved Swedish iron-working estate in Västmanland, founded 1681 by Per Larsson Gyllenhöök; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993 with over 50 buildings and working 18th-19th century ironmaking equipment.