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ESIM

An eSIM, or embedded SIM, is a digital SIM that lets a device activate a cellular plan from a carrier without a physical, removable SIM card, following GSMA specifications.

Oct 22, 2026

Esim Khan

Esim Khan (Есім хан) was khan of the Kazakh Khanate from 1598, remembered as a unifying ruler and lawgiver who issued the code known as the old path of Esim Khan.

Esîrî Mehmed Efendi

Esîrî Mehmed Efendi (died 1681) was an Ottoman scholar from Bursa who served as şeyhülislam, the state's chief religious authority, from 1659 to 1662 under Sultan Mehmed IV.

Esjufjöll (Esjufjoll) is a subglacial central volcano under SE Vatnajökull, Iceland, north of Öræfajökull, with a ~40 km² caldera, no confirmed Holocene eruptions, an uncertain 1927 event, and 2002 tremor unrest.

Eske Willerslev

Eske Willerslev (born 1971) is a Danish evolutionary geneticist, Prince Philip Professor at Cambridge and director of GeoGenetics, Copenhagen; pioneer of environmental DNA (2003) and leader of the first ancient human genome sequencing.

Eskender

Eskender (እስክንደር, Ge'ez for "Alexander") was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1478 to 1494, a Solomonic-dynasty ruler who acceded at age 7 and died at 22.

Esker

Esker (Irish eiscir; also osar, ås): long sinuous ridge of stratified sand and gravel deposited by meltwater in subglacial or englacial tunnels, up to 200 m high and hundreds of kilometres long; used for aggregate, aquifers, and mineral exploration.

Esketamine

Esketamine, marketed as Spravato and Ketanest S, is the S-enantiomer of ketamine, an NMDA receptor antagonist approved in 2019 as a nasal spray for treatment-resistant depression.

Eskil

Eskil, born around 1100 in Denmark, was Archbishop of Lund from 1138 to 1177 and the leading churchman of twelfth-century Scandinavia, championing papal supremacy and the Cistercians.

Oct 20, 2026

Eskil Ervik

Eskil Ervik, Norwegian former speed skater (born 1975, Trondheim), Hamar IL; world allround bronze 1999, European silver 2000 and 2006, 3000 m world record 3:37.28 (2005); later HamKam managing director.

Eskimo

Eskimo: an exonym for Arctic Indigenous peoples including the Inuit, Iñupiat, and Yup'ik. From Montagnais ayas̆kimew, 'snowshoe-netter'; rejected by the Inuit Circumpolar Council in 1977, fading in Alaska, offensive in Canada.

Eskimo words for snow

Eskimo words for snow: the claim that Inuit and Yupik languages have dozens or hundreds of snow words, originating with Boas (1911, four terms) and Whorf (1940), debunked by Martin (1986) and Pullum's "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax"; actual root counts, two to a dozen, match English.

Oct 20, 2026

Eskişehir (city)

Eskişehir, ancient Dorylaeum, a northwestern Anatolian Turkish city; railway hub since the 1890s, high-tech industry, three universities, tram network, and the 2026 Eskişehir Year municipal program.

Eskişehir (district)

Eskişehir (district): the former central district of Eskişehir Province, Turkey, split into Odunpazarı and Tepebaşı by Law 5747 in 2008; the province now has 14 districts and 927,956 people (2025).

Sep 21, 2026

Esko A. Nikkilä

Esko A. Nikkilä (1926–1986) was a Finnish professor of medicine at the University of Helsinki, a pioneer of lipid and diabetes research who co-authored the Helsinki Heart Study.

Esko Lipsonen

Esko Lipsonen (1950-2015), Finnish long-distance runner of the 1970s; personal bests 13:39.9 (5000 m), 28:36.4 (10,000 m), 2:15.42 marathon; three World Cross Country appearances; later coached Risto Ulmala.

Oct 20, 2026

Esko Rechardt

Esko Tapani Rechardt (b. 1958, Helsinki), Finnish sailor and civil engineer; won Finn-class gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics off Tallinn, Finland's first Olympic sailing champion; later federation head coach 2009–2012 and bridge designer.

Esko Ukkonen

Esko Ukkonen, born 1950 in Savonlinna, Finland, is a Finnish computer scientist and University of Helsinki professor whose on-line suffix tree construction and edit-distance algorithms became standard tools for DNA sequence analysis in bioinformatics.

Eskom

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd is South Africa's state-owned electricity utility, founded in 1923 and supplying over 80% of the country's power, recovering after years of loadshedding.

ESL (company)

ESL (Electronic Sports League), founded 2000 in Cologne by Ralf Reichert and Jens Hilgers, is a major esports tournament organizer (Intel Extreme Masters, ESL One, ESL Pro League). Sold by MTG to Saudi Savvy Games Group in 2022 for $1.05 billion and merged with FACEIT into ESL FACEIT Group.

Eslicarbazepine

Eslicarbazepine, also known as S-licarbazepine, is the active metabolite of eslicarbazepine acetate, a once-daily antiseizure medication for focal (partial-onset) seizures marketed as Aptiom in the United States and Zebinix in Europe.

Oct 15, 2026

ESLint

ESLint is a configurable, pluggable JavaScript linter that finds potential bugs and style violations and fixes many automatically; it was announced by Nicholas C. Zakas in 2013.

Oct 15, 2026

ESM-2

ESM-2 (Evolutionary Scale Modeling 2) is a family of transformer-based protein language models developed by Meta, released in 2022, ranging from 8 million to 15 billion parameters.

ESM1

ESM1 (endocan), endothelial cell specific molecule 1, human chromosome 5q11.2 gene encoding a 50 kDa soluble dermatan sulfate proteoglycan secreted by endothelial cells; biomarker of endothelial dysfunction in cancer, sepsis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease.