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Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Tolle, is a spiritual teacher and author whose 1997 book The Power of Now made him one of the most popular spiritual authors in the United States.

Eclairion

Eclairion is a French operator of high-density colocation data centers for AI, based in Bruyères-le-Châtel near Paris and known for hosting Mistral AI's training cluster.

Eclampsia

Eclampsia in pregnancy: new-onset unexplained seizures in a woman with pre-eclampsia, occurring before, during, or after delivery. Treated with magnesium sulfate plus antihypertensives; prevented by low-dose aspirin and calcium.

Eclampsia in the puerperium

Eclampsia in the puerperium (postpartum eclampsia, ICD-11 JA25.2): grand mal seizures from hypertensive disorder of pregnancy after delivery, up to 6 weeks postpartum; treated with magnesium sulfate; 21-40% of eclampsia cases.

Eclectic Chronicle

The Eclectic Chronicle, numbered ABC 24, is a Babylonian chronicle on tablet BM 27859 in the British Museum, summarizing Babylonian history from about 1080 BC onward.

Eclecticism

Eclecticism: philosophical method of selecting and combining elements from different systems of thought, from Greek eklegein. Potamo of Alexandria was the only self-declared ancient eclectic; later Victor Cousin's French eclecticism and Sil and Katzenstein's analytic eclecticism.

Eclectus

Eclectus (Eclectus Wagler, 1832), eclectus parrots: a parrot genus of Oceania with four extant species (Moluccan, Sumba, Tanimbar, Papuan) plus extinct E. infectus; green males, red females, cooperative breeding, male-biased sex ratio.

eCLIP

eCLIP, or enhanced crosslinking and immunoprecipitation, is a molecular biology method mapping RNA-binding protein contacts transcriptome-wide at single-nucleotide resolution, introduced by Van Nostrand in 2016.

Eclipse

An eclipse occurs when the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up: a solar eclipse at new moon, and a lunar eclipse when the full Moon enters Earth's shadow.

Eclipse (Meyer novel)

Eclipse (2007) is Stephenie Meyer's third Twilight saga novel, in which Bella Swan's love triangle with Edward Cullen and Jacob Black collides with Victoria's vampire army.

Eclipse (site)

Eclipse Casino, an online gambling site at eclipsecasino.com established 2017 under a Curacao license with Rival games; blacklisted by AskGamblers over slow payouts. Distinct from the unrelated Eclipse Casino Batumi in Georgia.

Eclipse (software)

Eclipse, also known as Eclipse IDE, is a free, open-source integrated development environment created by IBM in 2001, now governed by the Eclipse Foundation and best known for Java development.

Eclipse (Xandria album)

Eclipse is the ninth studio album by German symphonic metal band Xandria, released August 7, 2026 on Napalm Records. Second album with vocalist Ambre Vourvahis; 11 tracks, 57:33, four singles including the title track.

Eclipse (yacht)

Eclipse, also known as M/Y Eclipse, is a 162.5-meter motor yacht built by Blohm+Voss in Hamburg and delivered in 2010 to Roman Abramovich; she was then the world's largest private yacht.

Eclipse 500

The Eclipse 500 is an American six-seat very light jet built by Eclipse Aviation of Albuquerque, powered by two Pratt & Whitney turbofans and FAA certified in 2006.

Eclipse chasing

Eclipse chasing, also called umbraphilia, is traveling to the narrow path of totality of a solar eclipse, which crosses any given spot on Earth only about every 375 years.

Eclipse Continuity

Eclipse Continuity Fund I is a $125 million Delaware venture capital fund formed in 2016, controlled by Lior Susan alongside Eclipse Ventures and known for its stake in Owlet.

Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Eclipse Cyclone DDS is an open-source implementation of the OMG DDS specification and DDSI-RTPS wire protocol, hosted by the Eclipse Foundation and widely used in ROS 2.

Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation is a vendor-neutral nonprofit that hosts open source software projects, best known as the home of the Eclipse Platform and Jakarta EE.

Eclipse mapping

Eclipse mapping is an exoplanet astronomy technique that uses the changing shape of a secondary eclipse to reconstruct a two-dimensional map of a planet's dayside brightness or temperature.

Eclipse of Thales

The Eclipse of Thales, also called the Battle of the Eclipse, is the total solar eclipse of 28 May 585 BCE that interrupted a battle between the Lydians and the Medes.

Eclipse Sound

Eclipse Sound (Détroit d'Eclipse) is a channel in Nunavut, Canada, between northern Baffin Island and Bylot Island, a narwhal summering area and shipping route for the Mary River mine.

ECLIPSE study

ECLIPSE (Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate End-points) was a GlaxoSmithKline-funded, 3-year observational cohort study (NCT00292552) of 2,164 COPD patients plus controls, which established COPD heterogeneity, the frequent exacerbator phenotype, biomarkers, and 8-year mortality markers.

Eclipse Ventures

Eclipse Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded by Lior Susan in 2015, investing in early-stage companies in manufacturing, supply chain, transportation, and semiconductors.

Eclipses used for scientific discovery

Eclipses used for scientific discovery are solar and lunar eclipses exploited as natural experiments, most famously for observing the Sun's corona and testing general relativity in 1919.

Eclipsing binary

An eclipsing binary is a pair of stars that alternately pass in front of each other as seen from Earth, causing periodic dips in brightness.

Eclipso

Eclipso, also called the Spirit of Wrath, is a DC Comics demon created by Bob Haney and Lee Elias in House of Secrets #61 (1963), bound to the Heart of Darkness black diamond, possessing hosts during eclipses, and weakened by sunlight.

Eclipta prostrata

Eclipta prostrata (false daisy, bhringraj; syn. Eclipta alba) is an Asteraceae herb of moist tropical habitats, used in Ayurveda and TCM, with coumestans such as wedelolactone as key phytochemicals.

Ecliptic

The ecliptic is the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun, seen from Earth as the great circle the Sun follows yearly, tilted 23.4° to the celestial equator.

Ecliptic coordinate system

The ecliptic coordinate system specifies positions on the celestial sphere by ecliptic longitude and latitude, measured from the ecliptic plane of Earth's orbit, and is widely used for solar system science.