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Elevator (aeronautics)
The elevator is the hinged surface on an aircraft's horizontal stabilizer used to control pitch, one of the three primary flight controls since the Wright brothers' 1902 glider.
Elevator Action
Elevator Action (エレベーター・アクション) is Taito's 1983 arcade spy platform-shooter starring Agent 17, codename Otto, who collects documents from red doors in a 30-story building, uses elevators as weapons, and spawned the Elevator Action Returns sequel and many ports.
Elevator pitch
An elevator pitch, also called an elevator speech, is a short spoken introduction of 30 to 60 seconds covering who you are, what you do, and why it matters.
Elevator to the Gallows
Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) is Louis Malle's 1958 debut feature, a French noir starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet with an improvised one-night Miles Davis score; Prix Louis-Delluc 1957.
Eleven (film)
Eleven is a 2025 Indian Tamil-Telugu bilingual slasher film directed by Lokkesh Ajls. It stars Naveen Chandra as a cop investigating a nyctophobic serial killer.
Eleven (Stranger Things)
Eleven (Jane Ives, later Jane Hopper), called El, is the telekinetic protagonist of Netflix's Stranger Things (2016–2025), played by Millie Bobby Brown; born to MKUltra subject Terry Ives, raised in Hawkins Lab as 011, and left with an ambiguous fate in the series finale.
Eleven Days (film)
Eleven Days refers to two films: a 2018 Australian adventure drama by Jaginder Singh about a boy searching the outback for his brother, and a 2026 Peter Landesman prison siege thriller starring Taylor Kitsch and Diego Luna, based on the 1974 Carrasco siege in Huntsville, Texas.
Eleven Madison Park
Eleven Madison Park (EMP) is Daniel Humm's three-Michelin-star restaurant at 11 Madison Avenue, NYC; world's best restaurant 2017, fully vegan 2021–2025, reintroduced meat and fish October 2025.
Eleven Missing Days
Eleven Missing Days is an upcoming British noir mystery drama film directed by Bertie Ellwood, starring Felicity Jones as Agatha Christie and Vincent Cassel, dramatizing her real eleven-day 1926 disappearance, based on Jared Cade's 1998 book, in post-production as of October 2026.
Eleven Multilingual v2
Eleven Multilingual v2 is a text-to-speech and voice-cloning model released by ElevenLabs in August 2023, supporting 29 languages and still used as the quality reference in 2026.
Eleven Music
Eleven Music is a text-to-music model family from ElevenLabs, first released in August 2025, that generates complete songs with vocals and instrumentals from natural-language prompts.
Eleven Sports
Eleven Sports is a sports media company founded in 2015 by Andrea Radrizzani via Aser, streaming football and other sports in Belgium, Portugal, Taiwan and other markets; acquired by DAZN Group, completed February 2023.
Eleven-headed Kannon of Kōfuku-ji
The Eleven-headed Kannon of Kōfuku-ji (十一面観音, Jūichimen Kannon) is a wooden statue of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara carved in 1221 by the sculptor Zen'en for Kōfuku-ji temple in Nara.
Eleven-plus
Eleven-plus (11+), selective entrance exam taken at age 10-11 in England for grammar school admission. Originated in the 1944 Education Act's tripartite system; now locally set tests of English, maths, verbal and non-verbal reasoning across about 163 grammar schools.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an American AI audio company founded in 2022 by Piotr Dąbkowski and Mati Staniszewski, known for generative voice tools like text to speech and voice cloning.
ElevenLabs Scribe
ElevenLabs Scribe is a family of speech-recognition models by ElevenLabs, first released in February 2025, with word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and coverage of roughly 90 to 99 languages.
Elevenses
Elevenses: British informal mid-morning break around 11 am with tea or coffee and a biscuit or snack. From dialectal 'elevens'; attested late 18th century; the Hobbits' second meal in Tolkien, unlike afternoon tea.
Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
Eleventh Amendment (1795) to the U.S. Constitution, a response to Chisholm v. Georgia, bars federal suits against states by out-of-state or foreign citizens, embodying state sovereign immunity with exceptions like Ex parte Young.
Eleventh Doctor
The Eleventh Doctor is the Doctor Who incarnation played by Matt Smith (2010-2013) under showrunner Steven Moffat, debuting in The Eleventh Hour and regenerating in The Time of the Doctor after receiving a new regeneration cycle on Trenzalore.
Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt
The Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt, also called Dynasty XI, was a Theban royal line, 2130–1990 BC, that reunified Egypt under Mentuhotep II and opened the Middle Kingdom.
Eleventh grade
Eleventh grade, or junior year, is the third year of US high school (grades 10-12, ISCED upper secondary), central to college admissions via the PSAT/NMSQT, SAT, and ACT; equivalents include Germany's grade 11-13 Abitur track and India's Class 11.
Eleventy
Eleventy is an open source static site generator written in JavaScript, created in 2018, that turns templates and content into static HTML with no client-side JavaScript by default.
ELEX
ELEX is a 2017 open-world science-fantasy action role-playing game by German studio Piranha Bytes, released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC and set on the comet-devastated planet Magalan.
Elex Michaelson
Elex Michaelson, born 1986 in Agoura Hills, California, is a CNN anchor hosting The Story Is with Elex Michaelson (2025); formerly KTTV FOX 11 evening anchor and creator of California's statewide political show The Issue Is (2018).
Elexacaftor
Elexacaftor (VX-445) is a CFTR corrector used with tezacaftor and ivacaftor as Trikafta/Kaftrio for cystic fibrosis; FDA-approved 2019, binds TMD1/TMD2 site, boxed liver-injury warning.
Eleyya
Eleyya (एळेय्य) was a rajah of Magadha and lay follower of the meditation teacher Rāmaputta, whom the Pali commentaries identify as Uddaka Rāmaputta; the brahmin minister Vassakāra reports his faith to the Buddha at Rājagaha.
Elf
Elf: a Germanic folklore being, Old English ælf, Old Norse álfr, Proto-Germanic albiz; once a humanlike otherworldly race linked to sacrifice, illness, and names like Alfred, later a small mischievous sprite and Tolkien-style figure.
Elf (Dungeons & Dragons)
Elf (Dungeons & Dragons): playable humanoid species since the 1974 game, adapted from Tolkien; long-lived (750 years), trance-sleeping, with high elf, wood elf, and drow subraces across five editions.
Elf (film)
Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau, starring Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised among Santa's elves who searches New York for his birth father.
Elf Aquitaine
Elf Aquitaine was a French oil and gas company formed in 1976 from state-owned predecessors, privatized in 1994, and taken over by TotalFina in 2000, later part of TotalEnergies.