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Entertaining Mr Sloane

Entertaining Mr Sloane: Joe Orton's 1964 black comedy debut, in which lodger Sloane is seduced by siblings Kath and Ed and kills their father; West End hit, Broadway 1965, revived at the Young Vic in 2025.

Entertainment

Entertainment: the industry and practice of producing stories, music, and performances for cinema, TV, streaming, and digital audiences. Distinguished by its awards voting bodies (Oscars, BAFTA, Emmys, Actor Awards), review aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes, audience measurement, and recommendation research.

Entertainment (2014 film)

Entertainment (It's Entertainment), 2014 Hindi comedy directed by debutant duo Sajid-Farhad, starring Akshay Kumar and the golden retriever Junior, who inherits a Bangkok tycoon's fortune; released 8 August 2014, a box office flop.

Entertainment (2015 film)

Entertainment (2015) is an American comedy-drama directed by Rick Alverson, written with Gregg Turkington and Tim Heidecker, starring Turkington as a Neil Hamburger-like comedian touring the Mojave Desert; Sundance 2015 premiere, Magnolia release, $55,506 gross.

Entertainment One UK

Entertainment One UK Limited (formerly Contender Entertainment Group, Contender Limited) is a British film distributor and TV producer, once eOne's UK arm, now under Lionsgate after the 2023 sale, with Peppa Pig retained by Hasbro.

Entertainment Software Association

Entertainment Software Association (ESA), formerly IDSA (1994–2003), is the U.S. video game industry's trade association and lobby. It founded the ESRB, ran E3 until its 2023 cancellation, and lobbies on copyright, trade, and game-preservation bills.

Entertainment Software Rating Board

Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), founded 1994 by the IDSA/ESA, is the non-profit self-regulatory body assigning age and content ratings (E, E10+, T, M, AO) to video games in North America, with IARC digital ratings and fines up to $1 million.

Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight (ET) is the American syndicated entertainment newsmagazine that premiered September 14, 1981, created by Al Masini of TeleRep for Paramount. First daily half-hour syndicated news program; pioneered satellite delivery; now in its 46th season on CBS Media Ventures with hosts Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner.

Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (EW) is an American digital-only pop-culture magazine founded by Time Inc., first issued February 16, 1990, created by Jeff Jarvis and Michael Klingensmith, now published by People Inc. after ending print in February 2022.

Enthalpy

Enthalpy, symbol H, is a thermodynamic state function defined as internal energy plus pressure times volume, H = U + PV; its change equals heat at constant pressure.

Enthalpy of fusion

The enthalpy of fusion, also called the latent heat of fusion, is the heat needed to melt a substance at constant pressure. For water it is 334 kJ/kg.

Enthalpy of solution

The enthalpy of solution is the heat absorbed or released when a solute dissolves in a solvent at constant temperature and pressure; ammonium nitrate dissolving cools a cold pack, while calcium chloride warms a hot pack.

Enthalpy of sublimation

The enthalpy of sublimation, ΔsubH, is the heat required to convert one mole of solid directly to gas, and it always exceeds the enthalpy of vaporization.

Enthalpy of vaporization (ΔvapH)

The enthalpy of vaporization, or latent heat of vaporization, is the heat needed to turn a liquid into gas, about 40.7 kJ/mol for water at 100 °C.

Entheogen

An entheogen, also called an entheogenic drug, is a psychoactive substance used to generate an experience of the divine, a term coined in 1979 by Ruck, Ott, Wasson, and others.

Entheos

Entheos is an American progressive deathcore band, self-styled "death fusion," formed in 2015 in Santa Cruz, California, and centered on vocalist Chaney Crabb and drummer Navene Koperweis.

Enthera Pharmaceuticals

Enthera Pharmaceuticals (Enthera Srl) is a Milan-based, clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2016 as BiovelocITA's first spin-off, developing Ebrasodebart, a monoclonal antibody for inflammatory bowel disease and type 1 diabetes.

Enthesitis-related juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Enthesitis-related juvenile idiopathic arthritis (ERA) is a subtype of childhood arthritis in which joints and tendon attachment sites become inflamed, linked to HLA-B27 and mostly affecting boys.

Enthiran (எந்திரன்)

Enthiran (எந்திரன்), also released as Robot and Robo, is S. Shankar's 2010 Tamil sci-fi film starring Rajinikanth as scientist Vaseegaran and robot Chitti, with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and A. R. Rahman's music; the costliest Indian film of its time, it became a landmark blockbuster and spawned the 2018 sequel 2.0.

Enthroned

Enthroned is a Belgian black metal band formed in Namur in 1993, combining traditional black metal with technical death metal, with guitarist and vocalist Nornagest its sole constant member since 1995.

Enthronement of Emperor Shizong of Jin

The Enthronement of Emperor Shizong of Jin (金世宗即位) was the coup at Liaoyang by which the Jurchen prince Wanyan Yong took the Jin throne as Emperor Shizong.

Enthronement of Liu Bang as Emperor

The Enthronement of Liu Bang as Emperor (刘邦称帝) was the 202 BC ceremony at which Liu Bang accepted the imperial title on the Fan River's north bank.

Enthymeme

Enthymeme: in Aristotle's Rhetoric, the deductive argument (sullogismos) serving as proof in public speech; originally a pre-Aristotelian term for paradoxical bon mots. Later usage stresses its implicit premise and burden-shifting.

Entice Oil and Gas Field

Entice is a designated oil and gas field in central Alberta, south of Strathmore, known as the site of Canada's first demonstration-scale commercial coalbed methane project, begun in 2003.

Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos

The Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos (ERSE), Portugal's independent energy regulator since 1997, regulates electricity, natural gas, LPG, petroleum-derived fuels, and biofuels, setting regulated tariffs and supervising energy markets.

Entile

Entile, formally Zhejiang Entive Smart Kitchen Appliance Co., Ltd., is a Chinese maker of integrated stoves, founded by Sun Weiyong in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, in 2003.

Entinostat

Entinostat (MS-275, SNDX-275) is an oral class I-selective benzamide HDAC inhibitor (HDAC1/HDAC3) studied in breast cancer and other tumors; approved in China in 2024, with PFS benefit but no overall survival gain in meta-analysis.

Entire function

An entire function, also called an integral function, is a complex-valued function that is complex differentiable everywhere on the complex plane; polynomials, the exponential, sine, and cosine are entire.

Entisols

Entisols are one of the 12 orders of USDA Soil Taxonomy: mineral soils with little or no horizon development, covering about 18 percent of Earth's ice-free land.

Entitlement to spousal maintenance

Entitlement to spousal maintenance is the threshold legal question of whether one spouse must support the other, decided by need, ability to pay, and statutory grounds.