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Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon
An emergency position-indicating radiobeacon (EPIRB) is a battery-powered maritime distress transmitter that sends a coded 406 MHz signal to the Cospas-Sarsat satellite system, which has helped rescue more than 50,000 people since 1982.
Emergency radiology
Emergency radiology is a subspecialty of radiology focused on imaging acutely ill and trauma patients in the emergency department, where speed and diagnostic accuracy shape urgent clinical decisions.
Emergency roadside telephone
An emergency roadside telephone, commonly called a call box, is a phone beside a highway that connects stranded motorists directly to police or highway patrol dispatch.
Emergency Room Visits
Emergency room visits are patient visits to hospital emergency rooms for diagnosis and treatment, a term formalized in MeSH in 2024; US departments handle roughly 155 million visits a year.
Emergency service
Emergency service: organized public agencies, including EMS, fire, and police, that respond to emergencies. Covers 911 access since 1968, the 1966 NAS report, EMS system components, delivery models, and response-time performance.
Emergency service response codes
Emergency service response codes are standardized labels used by emergency dispatchers and responders to classify an incident's type and urgency, determining which resources are sent and how quickly.
Emergency Shelter
An emergency shelter is temporary protection and accommodation provided immediately after a disaster or displacement, ranging from family tents and plastic sheeting to collective centers.
Emergency Shelter (Widow's Bay)
Emergency Shelter (Widow's Bay S1E9): Apple TV comedy horror episode aired June 10, 2026, written by Bobak Esfarjani, directed by Hiro Murai; a storm shelters the town while Rosemary's genealogy reveals Ruth Livingston as the last Warren descendant.
Emergency SOS via satellite
Emergency SOS via satellite is an Apple service, launched with the iPhone 14 in November 2022, for texting emergency services when no cellular or Wi-Fi network is available.
Emergency telephone number
An emergency telephone number is a short, free three-digit number, such as 112 or 911, that connects callers to police, fire, and ambulance dispatch services.
Emergency ultrasound
Emergency ultrasound, often called point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), is bedside ultrasound performed and interpreted by the treating clinician to answer specific questions, such as whether a trauma patient has internal bleeding.
Emergency vaccination (animal disease)
Emergency vaccination is the deliberate use of vaccination during an animal disease outbreak to slow or stop spread, mainly for foot-and-mouth disease and similar highly contagious diseases.
Emergency vehicle lighting
Emergency vehicle lighting, also known as police lights, is the flashing warning lamps fitted to police, fire, and ambulance vehicles to alert motorists and pedestrians.
Emergency vehicle preemption
Emergency vehicle preemption is a traffic signal mode that gives approaching emergency vehicles the right of way, cutting response times by up to 50 percent.
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-645 (16 U.S.C. ch. 59), a US wetland conservation law: defines wetlands by hydric soils, hydrophytic vegetation and hydrology, opens Land and Water Conservation Fund money for wetland acquisition, and creates the National Wetlands Priority Conservation Plan.
Emergency!
Emergency! (1972-1979) is the NBC medical drama created by Jack Webb and Robert A. Cinader about LA County Fire Department paramedics Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto of Station 51, credited with spurring US paramedic programs and authorizing legislation.
Emergent abilities debate
The emergent abilities debate is a 2022–2023 machine-learning dispute over whether large language models gain sharp, unpredictable capability jumps as they scale, or whether those jumps are metric artifacts.
Emergent abilities of large language models
Emergent abilities of large language models are capabilities, such as multi-step reasoning, that appear in models above a certain scale but are absent in smaller models trained the same way.
Emergent constraint
An emergent constraint is a relationship across an ensemble of climate models between an observable present-day climate quantity and a projected future change, letting observations narrow projections.
Emergent gravity
Emergent gravity is the proposal that gravity is not fundamental but arises like temperature from microscopic physics, with dark matter effects reinterpreted as dark-energy-driven gravity.
Emergent misalignment
Emergent misalignment is a phenomenon in language model safety research, first reported in 2025, in which finetuning a model on a narrow task such as writing insecure code produces broad misaligned behavior in unrelated domains.
EmergeTech
EmergeTech, also known as Emerge and formerly Vantage Freight, is a Scottsdale, Arizona freight procurement software company founded in 2016 by brothers Andrew and Michael Leto, previously of GlobalTranz.
Emerging infectious disease
Emerging infectious disease: an infection newly appearing in a population or rapidly spreading; 75% are zoonotic, driven by land-use change, wildlife trade, and travel, exemplified by the 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola PHEIC.
Emerging market
An emerging market, also called an emerging economy, is a country classified as emerging by index providers like MSCI and FTSE Russell, a term coined in 1981 by World Bank economist Antoine van Agtmael.
Emerging Objects
Emerging Objects is an Oakland, California 3D printing company co-founded by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, known for inventing printable building materials including salt and cement polymer.
Emerging Senegal Plan
The Emerging Senegal Plan (Plan Sénégal Émergent, PSE) is Senegal's national development strategy, adopted in 2014 under President Macky Sall to make the country emerging by 2035.
Emerging technologies
Emerging technologies, also called new technologies, are novel technologies in early stages of development and diffusion, marked by rapid change and uncertainty about their future impact.
Emergomycosis
Emergomycosis, also called disseminated emmonsiosis, is a systemic infection by the dimorphic fungus Emergomyces, chiefly E. africanus in South Africa, affecting immunocompromised patients, especially advanced HIV, with about 43% mortality and amphotericin B plus itraconazole treatment.
Emeril Lagasse
Emeril Lagasse (born 1959, Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American chef and TV personality known for Emeril's restaurant, Essence of Emeril, Emeril Live, and the catchphrase "Bam!"
Emeril's
Emeril's is a fine-dining restaurant opened by chef Emeril Lagasse in New Orleans's Warehouse District in 1990, now a two-Michelin-star restaurant run by his son E.J.