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Enhancement factor (gas absorption)

The enhancement factor in gas absorption is the ratio of absorption rate with reaction to purely physical absorption; it always exceeds 1 and is central to CO2 capture.

Enhancer (genetics)

Enhancer (genetics): cis-regulatory DNA elements binding transcription factors to boost distal gene expression; first shown with SV40 in 1981; over a million candidate enhancers span ~16% of the human genome.

Enhancer RNA

Enhancer RNA (eRNA): non-coding RNA transcribed by RNA polymerase II from active enhancers, typically bidirectional and unstable; marks enhancer activity and aids enhancer-promoter looping, TF trapping, and pause release.

Enhancer trap

An enhancer trap is a genetic technique in which a reporter gene with a weak promoter is inserted randomly into a genome to reveal where nearby enhancers are active.

Enheduanna

Enheduanna (En-ḫedu-ana), Old Akkadian princess, daughter of Sargon, and high priestess of Nanna at Ur ca. 2300 BCE, earliest named author in world literature, credited with five Sumerian poems including The Exaltation of Inana and the Temple Hymns.

Enhegal

Enhegal, also written Enkhegal, was one of the earliest known rulers of Lagash, a Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, flourishing around 2570 BC on the middle chronology.

Enhō Yūya (炎鵬悠哉)

Enhō Yūya (炎鵬 友哉), real name Yuya Nakamura, born 1994, is a 167 cm, 107 kg Japanese sumo wrestler of Isegahama stable; makuuchi debut May 2019, career-high maegashira 4, and the first former makuuchi wrestler to regain sekitori rank after falling to jonokuchi.

Enhypen

Enhypen (엔하이픈), Belift Lab (HYBE) boy group formed on I-Land 2020, debuted November 30, 2020; hyphen-name meaning connection; million-selling albums, Billboard 200 Top 10 hits, six members after Heeseung's 2026 exit.

Eni

Eni, originally Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, is an Italian integrated energy company founded in 1953 under Enrico Mattei, controlled by the Italian state and operating in 62 countries.

ENIAC

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer, built at the University of Pennsylvania for the US Army between 1943 and 1946.

Eniac Ventures

Eniac Ventures is a New York-based seed-stage venture capital firm founded by four University of Pennsylvania friends and named after the ENIAC computer, which was built at the university's engineering school.

ENIC Group

ENIC Group is a Bahamas-based sports, events, and media investment company, majority owner of Tottenham Hotspur (about 89% by 2026). Built by Joe Lewis, run with Daniel Levy, now controlled by the Lewis Family Trust after Lewis's 2022 transfer and Levy's 2025 exit.

Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton (1897–1968), English children's author of the Famous Five, Secret Seven, Noddy, and Malory Towers; wrote an estimated 700 books, selling over 600 million copies in 40 languages, while attracting persistent criticism for sexism, racism, and xenophobia in her texts.

Enid MacRobbie

Enid MacRobbie (1931–2024) was a British plant biophysicist, Professor of Plant Biophysics at Cambridge and Fellow of Girton College, known for measuring ion fluxes in plant cells with radioactive tracers.

Enid Sinclair

Enid Sinclair is the werewolf roommate of Wednesday Addams at Nevermore Academy in Netflix's Wednesday, played by Emma Myers. A late bloomer who wolfs out in the Season 1 finale, she is revealed as an alpha werewolf in Season 2.

Enigma (2001 film)

Enigma (2001) is a Michael Apted wartime thriller, scripted by Tom Stoppard from Robert Harris's novel, starring Dougray Scott and Kate Winslet as Bletchley Park codebreakers re-breaking a changed U-boat Enigma cipher in March 1943; produced by Mick Jagger and Lorne Michaels, Metascore 64, Sloan Feature Film Prize winner.

Enigma (Enigma คน มนตร์ เวท)

Enigma (คน มนตร์ เวท; Enigma The Series) is a 2023 Thai supernatural horror series by GMMTV and Parbdee, directed by Patha Thongpan, starring Win Metawin as magician-teacher Ajin and Prim Chanikarn as student Fa; 4 episodes on GMM25 and Prime Video, with the 2025 sequel Enigma Black Stage.

Enigma (German band)

Enigma is a German electronic music project founded in 1990 by Michael Cretu with David Fairstein and Frank Peterson, distinct from the Enigma cipher machine and other namesakes; its debut MCMXC a.D. fused Gregorian chant with dance beats, selling 70 million records.

Enigma Black Stage (บุหงาหมื่นภมร)

Enigma Black Stage (บุหงาหมื่นภมร) is a 2025 GMMTV Thai supernatural thriller, sequel to Enigma (2023): five episodes on ONE31 and Netflix, starring Win Metawin as occultist Ajin in a deadly stage-play casting contest.

Enigma machine

The Enigma machine is a family of German electromechanical rotor cipher machines invented by Arthur Scherbius, patented in 1918 and used by German forces in World War II.

Enigma Records

Enigma Records, American heavy metal and alternative rock label founded 1982 by the Hein brothers, distributed by Capitol from 1986, half-bought by Capitol-EMI in 1989 for $22 million, merged with Restless Records in 1991; distinct from the UK 1976 label and Michael Cretu's Enigma project.

Enigma Variations

Enigma Variations: Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 (1899), fourteen musical portraits of his friends; famous for Nimrod and the never-explained hidden-theme puzzle.

Enigma Variations (novel)

Enigma Variations is André Aciman's 2017 novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) following the narrator Paul through five linked episodes of gender-shifting desire, its title echoing Elgar's Enigma Variations.

Eniluracil

Eniluracil (5-ethynyluracil, 776C85, GW776) is an oral fluoropyrimidine analogue that irreversibly inhibits DPD, enabling oral 5-FU; phase III colorectal trials failed equivalence and development stopped.

Eniola Aluko

Eniola Aluko (Eni Aluko), born 1987 in Lagos, British-Nigerian former England forward (102 caps, 33 goals), Chelsea and Juventus player, first female Match of the Day pundit, later Aston Villa and Angel City FC sporting director.

Enipeus Vallis

Enipeus Vallis is a valley on Mars approved by the IAU in 1991 and named after the classical Greek river Enipeus, located at about 36.8°N, 267.2°E.

Enisala

Enisala (Yeni-Sale, Heracleea) is a village in Tulcea County, Romania, with a 14th-century medieval fortress, probably Genoese, on Heracleea Hill above Lake Razelm; the only such fortress still standing on the Romanian coast.

Enisamium

Enisamium iodide (FAV00A, Amizon) is an oral isonicotinic acid derivative antiviral developed in Ukraine by Farmak, licensed in 11 CIS-region countries, inhibiting influenza and SARS-CoV-2 RNA polymerases via metabolite VR17-04.

Enišasi

Enišasi, also written Enisasi or Enishasi, was a small Late Bronze Age city-state in the Beqaa region of the Levant, known from two Amarna letters of the 14th century BC.

ENISH trial

ENISH (NCT03857802) was a parallel open-label randomized trial of nurse-delivered sleep hygiene education, nine recommendations, in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, improving PSQI sleep quality and lowering HbA1c.