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ECARX Holdings Inc.
ECARX Holdings Inc. is a London-headquartered automotive technology company, co-founded in 2017 by Ziyu Shen and Geely founder Eric Li, that supplies full-stack computing for intelligent vehicles.
Ecatepec de Morelos
Ecatepec de Morelos, Estado de México municipality on former Lake Texcoco; Mexico's most populous municipality (1,645,352 in 2020), home of the colonial Albarradón dike, Mexicable cable car, and rapid irregular urbanization.
Ecaterina Szabo
Ecaterina Szabo (Katalin Szabó), Romanian artistic gymnast born 1968 in Zagon; won four golds and a silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Games' most successful athlete, and ten World Championship medals.
Ecaz Labyrinthus
Ecaz Labyrinthus: polygonal labyrinth terrain in Titan's south polar region, 360 km across, IAU named 2014 after the Dune planet Ecaz; organic plateau dissected by methane dissolution, karst-like.
Ecbatana
Ecbatana (Old Persian Hagmatana, modern Hamadan, Iran) was the Median capital, Achaemenid summer capital, and satrapal seat of Media; Herodotus describes seven concentric colored walls, and Tell Hagmatana preserves its excavated remains.
ECC memory
ECC memory, or error-correcting code memory, is computer memory that stores extra check bits to detect and correct data corruption automatically, standard on servers and workstations.
ECC4703
ECC4703 (ECC-4703) is Eccogene's oral, liver-targeting THR-β full agonist in Phase IIa trials for MASH (MOSAIC, with ECC0509) and as a semaglutide adjunct for obesity (MIST); IND approved 2022.
ECC5004 / AZD5004 (oral GLP-1 receptor agonist)
ECC5004/AZD5004 (elecoglipron) is an oral, once-daily small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist discovered by Eccogene and licensed to AstraZeneca in 2023 for $185 million upfront, in Phase 3 development for type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Ecce homo
Ecce homo ("Behold the man!") is a Christian art subject of Pilate presenting the scourged Christ, painted by Mantegna, Caravaggio, Cigoli, Rembrandt, and others; a lost Caravaggio version was rediscovered in 2021 and confirmed by the Prado in 2024.
Eccellenza
Eccellenza is the top regional amateur football championship of Italy's Lega Nazionale Dilettanti, one step below Serie D. 28 groups; group winners promoted directly, seven spareggi places for second-placed teams, three relegations per group.
Eccentric cam
An eccentric cam is a circular plate cam with its rotating shaft mounted off-center, giving the follower simple harmonic motion with a stroke of twice the eccentricity.
Eccentric training
Eccentric training is a resistance training method in which muscles actively lengthen under load, building strength and muscle and rehabilitating tendon injuries such as Achilles tendinopathy.
Eccentric viewing
Eccentric viewing, also called eccentric fixation, is a low vision rehabilitation technique in which people with central vision loss learn to use undamaged paracentral retina instead of the fovea.
Eccentrically braced frame
An eccentrically braced frame (EBF) is a steel seismic-force-resisting system in which braces connect to a beam off-center, creating a short link that yields to dissipate earthquake energy.
Eccentricity (behavior)
Eccentricity (behavior): conduct, appearance, or speech perceived as strange or unusual relative to social norms. Also a schizotypy-trait facet in DSM-5 Psychoticism, linked to Openness and schizotypal personality disorder, distinct from mental illness itself.
Eccentricity (mathematics)
Eccentricity, in mathematics, is a single number measuring how much a conic section deviates from a circle: 0 is a circle, 1 a parabola, above 1 a hyperbola.
Ecchi (エッチ)
Ecchi (エッチ) is an anime/manga genre of playful, non-pornographic sexualized content, derived from the H of hentai, used in Japan as slang for lewdness or sex and in English fandom as a fanservice genre tag.
Eccles
Eccles, Kent (Aylesford): site of a large Romano-British villa at Rowe Place Farm, in use c. AD 55-400 with 125 rooms, later an Anglo-Saxon cemetery of about 200 burials; excavated 1962-1976 by Alec Detsicas; distinct from Eccles, Greater Manchester.
Eccles, Kent
Eccles is a village in the Medway valley in the parish of Aylesford, Kent, England, best known for the large Romano-British villa excavated at Rowe Place Farm from 1962.
Ecclesial Base Communities
Ecclesial base communities, or CEBs, are small lay-led Catholic groups that arose in Brazil in the late 1950s and became a defining expression of liberation theology.
Ecclesiasterion (Odeion) at Messene
Ecclesiasterion (Odeion) of Ancient Messene, also Ekklesiasterion: small theater-like assembly and performance hall in the Asclepieion, built late 3rd c. BC, 9.70 m orchestra, 21 m stage, restored 1997-2004, still hosting events.
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes, also known as Kohelet, is a book of the Hebrew Bible and one of the five Megillot, read during Sukkot and famous for "vanity of vanities."
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), completed 731 at Wearmouth–Jarrow, a five-book Latin history of Christianity in Britain, its manuscripts, sources, and reception.
Ecclesiastical Latin
Ecclesiastical Latin, or Church Latin, is the Latin of Catholic liturgy, theology, and canon law from the Fathers onward, marked by Greek loanwords and the Italianate pronunciation standardized in the twentieth century.
Ecclesiastical polity
Ecclesiastical polity, also known as church polity, is the operational governance structure of a church body, classically episcopal rule by bishops, presbyterian rule by elders, or congregational autonomy.
Ecclesiology
Ecclesiology is the branch of theology that studies the church: its nature, marks, structures, sacraments, authority, and mission, including Avery Dulles's six classic models of the Church.
ECCO
ECCO (ECCO Sko A/S), Danish family-owned footwear company founded 1963 by Karl and Birte Toosbuy in Bredebro; vertically integrated from tanneries to retail, known for direct-injection comfort shoes, BIOM golf line, and 101-country distribution.
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco the Dolphin is a 1992 Sega Genesis action-adventure game created by Ed Annunziata and developed by Novotrade, starring a dolphin whose pod is lost to a waterspout; acclaimed at launch (90% magazine average) but known for brutal difficulty, with a revival by A&R Atelier announced in 2026.
Ecco the Dolphin (video game)
Ecco the Dolphin (1992, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive), also known as 3D Ecco the Dolphin on 3DS, is a Novotrade-developed underwater action-adventure created by Ed Annunziata, famous for sonar puzzles, an oxygen meter, and extreme difficulty.
Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future
Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future is a 2000 Sega Dreamcast action-adventure by Appaloosa Interactive, a David Brin-scripted reboot of the Ecco series, later ported to PS2 in 2002; Metacritic 84 (Dreamcast), 71 (PS2).