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Epic Systems

Epic Systems Corporation is a privately held company in Verona, Wisconsin, that develops electronic health record software. Founded by Judy Faulkner in 1979, it is the largest US EHR vendor.

Epic theatre (Episches Theater), or Brechtian/dialectical theatre, is Bertolt Brecht's anti-illusionary, episodic political theatre using the Verfremdungseffekt, building on Erwin Piscator's 1920s stage innovations.

EPIC trial

EPIC (Early Psychosis: Investigating Cognition), NCT07196423, is a University of Nottingham, Wellcome Trust-funded trial testing glutamate measured with fMRS as a working memory marker in psychosis and a predictor of tDCS response, 106 participants, 2026-2027.

Epic Universe

Epic Universe, officially Universal Epic Universe, is a theme park at Universal Orlando Resort in Florida, opened May 22, 2025 as Universal's fourth Orlando gate.

Epic Ventures

Epic Ventures is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology from seed through Series C, tracing its roots to Wasatch Venture Fund, founded in 1994.

Epic-Kitchens

Epic-Kitchens is a large-scale egocentric video benchmark of unscripted kitchen activities, released in 2018 by researchers in Bristol, Toronto, and Catania and extended in 2020 into EPIC-KITCHENS-100, with 100 hours of densely annotated footage.

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is Baz Luhrmann's 2026 documentary concert film about Elvis Presley's 1970s Vegas residency, built from 59 hours of lost footage found in Kansas salt mines and restored by Peter Jackson's team, released by NEON.

Epic: The Musical

Epic: The Musical (EPIC) is a sung-through concept musical by Jorge Rivera-Herrans adapting Homer's Odyssey, released as nine saga EPs on TikTok and streaming from 2022 to 2024, never staged, with a Bruckheimer animated film announced.

Epica (band)

Epica: Dutch symphonic metal band, also originally named Sahara Dust, formed 2002 in Reuver by ex-After Forever guitarist Mark Jansen with singer Simone Simons; nine albums through Aspiral (2025).

Epicanthic fold

Epicanthic fold (epicanthal fold, epicanthus, plica palpebronasalis): a skin fold of the upper eyelid covering the eye's inner corner. Normal in East Asians (40–90%) and children; also seen in Down syndrome and BPES; corrected by epicanthoplasty.

Sep 29, 2026

Epicardial mapping

Epicardial mapping is a cardiac electrophysiology procedure that records electrical activity from the heart's outer surface to locate arrhythmia sources, guiding catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia.

Epicatechin

Epicatechin is a flavan-3-ol (catechin) plant polyphenol, C₁₅H₁₄O₆, the most abundant monomeric flavan-3-ol in cocoa, abundant also in tea, and a likely candidate behind cocoa's cardiovascular effects.

Epicenter

The epicenter, also spelled epicentre, is the point on the Earth's surface directly above the hypocenter, where an earthquake's rupture begins at depth. It is located by triangulation among seismographs.

Epichloe

Epichloë (anamorph Neotyphodium) is a genus of Clavicipitaceae fungi symbiotic with cool-season grasses, transmitted in seeds or as choke stromata, producing defensive alkaloids, some toxic to livestock, and commercialized in forage grasses.

Epichlorohydrin

Epichlorohydrin, also called glycidyl chloride or chloropropylene oxide, is a colorless, flammable epoxide liquid used chiefly to make epoxy resins and synthetic glycerine, and classified as a probable human carcinogen.

Epicor

Epicor is a privately held American enterprise software company headquartered in Austin, Texas. It develops industry-specific ERP software for manufacturing, distribution, retail, building supply, and automotive businesses.

Epicrates

Epicrates is a genus of non-venomous boas (family Boidae) established by Wagler in 1830, now restricted to five South and Central American rainbow boa species after West Indian species were moved to Chilabothrus.

Epictetus (Ἐπίκτητος)

Epictetus (Ἐπίκτητος), c. 50–135 CE, was a Greek Stoic philosopher, probably born a slave in Hierapolis, who taught in Rome and Nicopolis and taught the dichotomy of control.

Epicurean paradox

The Epicurean paradox, also called the trilemma of Epicurus or the logical problem of evil, argues evil is incompatible with an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent God; preserved only via Lactantius, not Epicurus' own writings.

Epicureanism

Epicureanism, or Epicurean philosophy, is a Hellenistic philosophy founded by Epicurus in Athens around 307 BC. It holds that happiness is found in freedom from mental and physical pain.

Epicurus (Ἐπίκουρος)

Epicurus (Ἐπίκουρος, 341–270/271 BCE), Greek founder of Epicureanism and the Garden in Athens; atomist physics with the swerve, empiricist epistemology, and ethics of ataraxia and aponia, distinct from Stoicism.

Sep 19, 2026

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is the debut album by Swedish band Candlemass, released in 1986, whose title coined the name of the epic doom metal genre it founded.

Sep 29, 2026

Epicutaneous immunotherapy

Epicutaneous immunotherapy (EPIT) is a form of allergen immunotherapy in which allergen is applied daily through an adhesive skin patch, studied mainly for peanut and cow's milk allergy in children.

Epicyclic gearing

Epicyclic gearing, also called planetary gearing, is a gear train in which one or more gears orbit the central axis, giving large speed or torque ratios in a compact package.

Epidaurus (πίδαυρος)

Epidaurus, also known as Epidauros or Epidavros, was an ancient Greek city state on the Argolid peninsula of the Peloponnese, famed for its healing Sanctuary of Asklepios and Hellenistic theater.

Oct 22, 2026

Epideictic oratory

Epideictic oratory, also called epideictic rhetoric or display oratory, is the branch of rhetoric concerned with praise and blame, addressed to spectators rather than judges.

Epidemic

Epidemic: occurrence of disease cases clearly in excess of normal expectancy in a community or region; from Greek epi (upon) and demos (people). Distinct from outbreak (localized) and pandemic (several countries or continents).

Sep 29, 2026

Epidemic model

An epidemic model is a mathematical or computational representation of how an infectious disease spreads through a population, used to predict transmission dynamics and evaluate control interventions such as vaccination.