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Ecloga
The Ecloga (Ἐκλογή, "selection of the laws") is a Byzantine law book issued in March 741 by Emperor Leo III and his son Constantine V, reworking Justinian's legislation in Greek.
Eclogite
Eclogite is a dense metamorphic rock composed of red garnet and green omphacite, formed when basalt or gabbro is buried deep during subduction of oceanic crust.
Eclogues
The Eclogues, also known as the Bucolica, are a collection of ten pastoral poems by the Roman poet Vergil, written during the civil wars of the late 40s BCE.
Eclosion hormone
Eclosion hormone (EH) is a 62-amino-acid insect neuropeptide that triggers ecdysis, the shedding of the old cuticle at each molt's end; it was discovered in 1970 in silk moths.
ECM1
ECM1 (extracellular matrix protein 1, URBWD) is a secreted 85-kDa glycoprotein gene on human chromosome 1q21.2 with four splice variants; loss-of-function mutations cause lipoid proteinosis, and autoantibodies target it in lichen sclerosus.
Ecma International
Ecma International, formerly the European Computer Manufacturers Association, is a Swiss standards association founded in Geneva in 1961, best known for publishing the ECMAScript standard behind JavaScript.
ECMAScript
ECMAScript is a general-purpose programming language defined by the ECMA-262 standard and best known as the language embedded in web browsers, where JavaScript is its best-known implementation.
ECMO trial
ECMO trial NCT04678518 (MRC-01-20-155), a Hamad Medical Corporation study measuring IL-1, IL-2, IL-6, and TNF before and after ECMO decannulation; found cytokines largely unchanged despite post-decannulation SIRS.
ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System
The ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System (ENS) runs many parallel forecasts at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts to estimate probabilities of future weather, operational since 1992.
Ecnoglutide
Ecnoglutide (XW003/XW004) is a once-weekly cAMP-biased GLP-1 receptor agonist from Sciwind Biosciences, first approved in China in January 2026 for type 2 diabetes, with obesity trials and an oral formulation in development.
Eco-Drive
Eco-Drive, also written エコ・ドライブ, is the light-powered watch technology of Japan's Citizen Watch Co., introduced in 1995, running more than six months in darkness on a full charge.
Eco-Shop Marketing
Eco-Shop Marketing Berhad is a Malaysian fixed-price discount retailer, the country's largest dollar-store chain, founded by Lee Kar Whatt and listed on Bursa Malaysia in May 2025.
Eco-Site II
Eco-Site II, LLC was a Durham, North Carolina company formed in 2017 to build and operate wireless towers for carriers like Verizon and T-Mobile, acquired by Vertical Bridge in 2020.
Eco-socialism
Eco-socialism (ecosocialism) is a political ideology merging socialist economics with ecological politics, arguing capitalism cannot solve the environmental crisis on a finite planet; it traces to 1970s red-green thinkers, the 1980s German Green left, O'Connor's journal, and the 2001 Kovel-Löwy manifesto.
Eco-terrorism
Eco-terrorism, also called green terrorism or ecoterror, is criminal violence or threatened violence against people or property by subnational groups for environmental-political reasons, per the FBI's 2002 definition.
Ecobank Group
Ecobank Group is a pan-African banking group headquartered in Lomé, Togo, founded in 1985 to integrate Africa's financial markets, serving over 30 million customers across sub-Saharan Africa.
Ecobat
Ecobat is a battery recycling and resource recovery company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that recycles lead-acid batteries and produces lead and lead alloys, and until 2026 also recycled lithium-ion batteries.
Ecobonus
Ecobonus is an Italian income-tax deduction for energy-efficiency upgrades to existing buildings, introduced by the 2007 financial law and covering insulation, windows, heat pumps, and boilers.
Ecobrogis/Eccobriga
Ecobrogis/Eccobriga (Ekkobriga), a fortified Galatian settlement and road station of the Trokmoi on the Ancyra–Tavium road in central Anatolia, probably at Kalekişla near Sulakyurt, Kırıkkale, Turkey; attested in the Antonine Itinerary, Peutinger Table, and Ravenna Cosmography.
EcoCeres怡斯莱
EcoCeres怡斯莱 is a Hong Kong-based biorefinery company that converts waste-based biomass, such as used cooking oil and animal fat, into renewable fuels including sustainable aviation fuel; incubated by Towngas, it reached unicorn status in 2025.
Ecocide
Ecocide is proposed or enacted criminal law for severe, widespread or long-term environmental destruction. Also called the campaign for a fifth Rome Statute crime; key facts: 1970s Vietnam War origin, 2021 Independent Expert Panel definition, 2024 EU directive and Vanuatu ICC proposal.
Ecocriticism
Ecocriticism, also called environmental criticism or green studies, is the interdisciplinary study of literature's relationship to the physical environment. Defined by Glotfelty and Fromm's 1996 Ecocriticism Reader, it developed through two waves and now anchors climate-fiction scholarship within the environmental humanities.
EcoDataCenter
EcoDataCenter is a Swedish data center company founded in 2015 and owned by Areim since 2023, building wood-constructed, energy-efficient data centers whose surplus heat feeds local district heating networks.
Ecodesign Directive
The Ecodesign Directive is a European Union framework law, adopted in 2009, authorizing the Commission to set minimum ecodesign requirements for energy-related products sold in the EU.
Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) is a 2024 EU regulation setting binding ecodesign requirements for almost all products on the single market, replacing the 2009 Ecodesign Directive.
Ecofascism
Ecofascism, also called eco-fascism, combines ecological themes with fascist or ultranationalist politics, tying nature protection to a 'pure' native people. Traced to Arndt and Riehl, debated since Bramwell 1989, and visible in far-right ecology and terrorist manifestos.
Ecofeminism
Ecofeminism, coined by Françoise d'Eaubonne in 1974, is an ideology and movement linking domination of women and degradation of nature through patriarchy and capitalism, with cultural and social strands, key texts by Merchant and Shiva, and ongoing climate justice relevance.
Ecofining
Ecofining is a catalytic hydroprocessing technology developed by Eni and Honeywell UOP that converts vegetable oils and animal fats into renewable diesel, first used commercially by Diamond Green Diesel in 2013.
EcoFlow
EcoFlow (正浩) is a Chinese clean-energy company founded in Shenzhen in 2017 by former DJI battery engineer Bruce Wang, making portable power stations and home batteries.
Ecofosbuvir tablets (艾考磷布韦)
Ecofosbuvir tablets (艾考磷布韦, Encofosbuvir Tablets), formerly yiqibuvir, are HEC Sunshine Pharma's class 1 HCV NS5B nucleoside inhibitor prodrug of sofosbuvir, NMPA-approved March 2025 with netanasvir phosphate for genotype 1, 2, 3, 6 chronic hepatitis C.