All articles starting with E

Esau

Esau (Hebrew עֵשָׂו), also called Edom, is the firstborn son of Isaac and Rebekah in Genesis, twin brother of Jacob, and ancestor of the Edomites.

Esaú e Jacó

Esaú e Jacó (Esau and Jacob) is a 1904 novel by Machado de Assis about twin brothers whose rivalry allegorizes Brazil's shift from empire to republic.

ESB Group, also known as the Electricity Supply Board (Bord Soláthair an Leictreachais), is Ireland's state-owned electricity utility. Established in 1927, it operates generation, networks, and supply across Ireland and Great Britain.

Eşber

Eşber is an 1880 verse drama in Ottoman Turkish by Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, centered on Alexander the Great's Indian campaign, and among his few stageable plays.

Oct 15, 2026

esbuild

esbuild is an open-source JavaScript bundler and minifier written in Go by Evan Wallace, released in 2020 and known for being 10 to 100 times faster.

Escabeche

Escabeche (escabèche, escabetx, from sikbāj): Iberian-Mediterranean technique of marinating fried or cooked fish, poultry, or vegetables in vinegar, oil, and spices; preserved food eaten cold, spread to Latin America, the Philippines, and Jamaica.

Escaflowne (エスカフローネ) (film)

Escaflowne (エスカフローネ), aka Escaflowne: The Movie or A Girl in Gaea, is a 2000 Sunrise/BONES anime film directed by Kazuki Akane, retelling the 1996 Vision of Escaflowne TV series with darker, redesigned characters, music by Yoko Kanno, and a 2002 US theatrical release.

Escala (group)

Escala is a British classical crossover (electric) string quartet, not the Japanese company Scala or other namesakes: Tasya Hodges, Izzy Johnston, Chantal Leverton, and Victoria Lyon, Britain's Got Talent 2008 finalists whose 2009 debut album reached UK number two.

ESCALAB

ESCALAB most commonly refers to the Extreme Scale Computer Architecture Laboratory (ESCAL), a computer architecture research group at the University of California, Riverside led by Hung-Wei Tseng.

Escalade

Escalade: medieval siege tactic of scaling fortified walls or ramparts with ladders, sometimes siege towers or grappling irons, under covering fire. Cheapest but deadliest attack; countered by hoardings and heightened walls; declined after wall-breaching cannon.

Escalante (Martian crater)

Escalante is a 75.26-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 0.19°N, 115.39°E, named in 1973, with dark dunes on its floor imaged by Mars Odyssey THEMIS and Mars Global Surveyor.

ESCALATES study

ESCALATES (Evaluating System Change to Advance Learning and Take Evidence to Scale) is the national evaluation of AHRQ's EvidenceNOW Initiative, studying over 1,500 small US primary care practices across seven regional Cooperatives to improve ABCS cardiovascular preventive care.

Escalation of commitment

Escalation of commitment, also called commitment bias, is the tendency to persist with a failing course of action after negative feedback, first demonstrated by Barry Staw in 1976.

Escalator

An escalator, also known as a moving staircase or moving stairway, is a power-driven set of moving stairs that continuously carries standing passengers between the levels of a building.

Escallonia

Escallonia (Mutis ex L.f., 1782) is a genus of about 40 evergreen shrubs and small trees in Escalloniaceae, native from Costa Rica to southern South America; n=12 chromosomes, Andean origin, popular flowering hedge plants.

Escambia County, Florida, United States

Escambia County, Florida: westernmost Florida county, county seat Pensacola, one of two original counties created July 21, 1821 by Andrew Jackson; 333,834 residents (2025 estimate), home to Naval Air Station Pensacola.

Escambray rebellion

The Escambray rebellion was an armed counterrevolutionary insurgency against Fidel Castro's government, fought in the Escambray Mountains of central Cuba from 1960 until Castro declared it over in 1965.

Oct 15, 2026

ESCAPADE

ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) is a NASA mission with twin spacecraft, Blue and Gold, launched in 2025 to study how solar wind drives atmospheric loss at Mars.

Escape (2024 South Korean film)

Escape (탈주, Talju) is a 2024 South Korean action thriller directed by Lee Jong-pil, starring Lee Je-hoon as a North Korean sergeant fleeing to South Korea.

Escape (Bulgaria)

Escape (Игрална зала "Ескейп") is a Bulgarian slot-hall and casino brand run by KAZINO ESCAPE gr. Isperih OOD (EIK 200716044, Shumen, founded 2009), with 50+ venues; distinct from Sofia escape-room businesses.

Escape (Journey album)

Escape (E5C4P3) is Journey's seventh studio album, released July 17, 1981 on Columbia. The band's first and only Billboard 200 No. 1, RIAA Diamond certified, home of "Don't Stop Believin'", "Open Arms", and "Who's Crying Now", made with new keyboardist Jonathan Cain.

ESCAPE (Malaysia)

ESCAPE is a Malaysian nature-based adventure theme park chain by Sim Leisure Group (SGX-listed), founded by Sim Choo Kheng. Flagship ESCAPE Penang opened 2012 in Teluk Bahang, holding four Guinness World Records including the 1,111 m longest tube water slide.

Escape (The Piña Colada Song)

Escape (The Piña Colada Song), also known simply as "Escape," is Rupert Holmes's 1979 soft rock story song from Partners in Crime about a couple who accidentally answer each other's personal ads; it was the last US No. 1 of the 1970s and first of the 1980s.

Oct 15, 2026

Escape analysis

Escape analysis is a static compiler analysis that decides whether an object escapes the function that created it, enabling stack allocation, lock elision, and scalar replacement.

Escape at Dannemora

Escape at Dannemora is a 2018 Showtime limited series, created by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin and directed by Ben Stiller, dramatizing the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape by Richard Matt and David Sweat, aided by prison worker Joyce Mitchell; it earned 12 Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe for Patricia Arquette.