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Expedition Unknown
Expedition Unknown is an American documentary-reality series hosted by archaeologist Josh Gates, who investigates unsolved legends and lost treasures worldwide. It premiered in 2015 on the Travel Channel.
Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV), begun in 1988 as the Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle, was a Marine Corps amphibious vehicle program canceled by Robert Gates in 2011.
Expeditionary Leader-Follower program
The Expeditionary Leader-Follower program, known as ExLF and Leader-Follower Tactical Wheeled Vehicle, is a United States Army program begun in fiscal 2016 in which one manned truck leads unmanned supply convoys.
Expeditionary warfare
Expeditionary warfare: projecting organized military force beyond home territory to accomplish objectives in foreign countries. Covers joint definitions, maritime history, US service doctrines (Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force), logistics constraints, and access challenges.
Expeditions of the Aswan governors to Nubia
Trading and military ventures south of Elephantine led by governors Harkhuf, Sabni, and Pepinakht-Heqaib in Dynasty 6, seeking luxury goods for the pharaoh and the road to Yam.
Expeditions: A MudRunner Game
Expeditions: A MudRunner Game (Expeditions) is a 2024 off-road exploration sim by Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment, third in the MudRunner series, swapping hauling for scientific scouting missions with drones, winches, and echo sounders.
Expeditors International
Expeditors International is an American non-asset-based third-party logistics company founded in Seattle in 1979 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, offering airfreight, ocean freight, and customs brokerage services.
Expel (company)
Expel is an American managed detection and response provider founded in 2016 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, monitoring customers' existing security tools and remediating threats on their behalf.
Expend4bles
Expend4bles (The Expendables 4) is a 2023 Lionsgate action film directed by Scott Waugh, starring Statham, Stallone, Lundgren, Couture, 50 Cent, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, and Andy Garcia. It opened to a franchise-worst $8.3 million, grossed $51.1 million worldwide on a $100 million budget, and scored 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Expensify
Expensify is a cloud-based expense management platform that helps businesses collect, audit, and reimburse employee expenses. Founded in 2008 and based in Portland, Oregon, it trades on Nasdaq as EXFY.
Experian
Experian, also known as Experian plc, is an Irish-domiciled information services company claiming the world's largest credit bureau business, employing about 21,700 people across 30 countries.
Experience
Experience in philosophy: the first-person stream of perceptions, sensations, and thoughts, its phenomenal character (qualia), its role as a source of knowledge, and theories from sense-datum theory to disjunctivism and illusionism.
Experience machine
The experience machine, or pleasure machine, is a 1974 thought experiment by Robert Nozick: most people would refuse a machine giving any desired experiences, challenging hedonism.
Experience replay
Experience replay is a reinforcement learning technique in which an agent stores past transitions in a buffer and trains on random samples, proposed by Lin in 1992.
Experience sampling method
The experience sampling method (ESM), also called experience sampling, is a research procedure in which participants repeatedly report thoughts, feelings, and context in daily life, typically via mobile device.
Experience Zoo iZoo
Experience Zoo iZoo (体感型動物園iZoo) is a reptile and amphibian zoo in Kawazu on Japan's Izu Peninsula, known for free-roaming giant tortoises and hands-on reptile experiences.
Experiential learning
Experiential learning: learning through direct experience plus reflection, formalized in Kolb's 1984 four-stage cycle. Meta-analyses report d = 0.43 advantage over traditional instruction, with gains in empathy, science, and critical thinking.
Experiment
An experiment is a study in which the investigator assigns subjects to treatment and control groups, at random, to produce data that settles questions of cause or effect.
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
EAST is a fully superconducting research tokamak at the Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei, China, the first tokamak with fully superconducting coils, achieving first plasma in 2006.
Experimental Aircraft Association
The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is an international aviation membership association, founded in 1953 by Paul H. Poberezny and headquartered in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with roots in amateur-built aircraft.
Experimental and research aviation
Experimental and research aviation is the branch of aeronautics that builds and flies aircraft to gather flight data on new designs and technologies rather than carry passengers.
Experimental animals
Experimental animals: English-language peer-reviewed journal of the Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science (JALAS), Tokyo; quarterly, open access on J-STAGE, online-only since 2020, MEDLINE-indexed since 1995.
Experimental big band
An experimental big band is a large jazz ensemble, typically a dozen or more musicians, that integrates free improvisation and unusual instrumentation within composed frameworks, a practice dating from the 1960s.
Experimental Boiling Water Reactor
The Experimental Boiling Water Reactor was a prototype direct-cycle reactor at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois that achieved criticality in 1956, produced 5 MW of electricity, and was shut down in 1967.
Experimental Breeder Reactor II
Experimental Breeder Reactor II was a sodium-cooled pool-type fast breeder reactor in Idaho, built by Argonne National Laboratory and operated from 1964 to 1994 as the test bed for the US breeder program.
Experimental dermatology
Experimental Dermatology (Exp Dermatol, ISSN 1600-0625), Wiley journal founded 1992 in Denmark, official journal of the ADF; monthly, editor Akimichi Morita, 2025 impact factor about 3.1-3.4.
Experimental evolution
Experimental evolution is a method in which populations of organisms are propagated under defined, reproducible conditions across many generations, so adaptation is observed directly rather than inferred from history.
Experimental film
Experimental film, also called avant-garde or underground film, is cinema made outside the commercial industry on an artisanal basis, from the 1920s European avant-garde and city symphonies to the American underground, defined by formal experimentation, autonomy, and distance from narrative and distribution norms.
Experimental Implants
Experimental implants (MeSH: Implants, Experimental, D020007) are artificial substitutes for body parts inserted into organisms during experimental studies, spanning neural, spinal, and dental devices tested under FDA IDE rules, with post-trial maintenance and explantation as key ethical issues.
Experimental Lakes Area
The Experimental Lakes Area is a research region of 58 small lakes in northwestern Ontario, Canada, set aside in 1968, where scientists manipulate entire lake ecosystems to study pollution.