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EnCodec
EnCodec is a neural audio codec introduced by Meta AI in October 2022 that compresses audio into discrete tokens using residual vector quantization, serving generative models like MusicGen.
Encoded Therapeutics
Encoded Therapeutics is a US precision gene therapy company in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2014 by Kartik Ramamoorthi and Stephanie Tagliatela, developing ETX101 for Dravet syndrome.
Encoder–decoder neural network
An encoder–decoder neural network, often called seq2seq, is a machine-learning architecture in which an encoder compresses the input and a decoder generates the output, the standard approach for machine translation.
Encoding/decoding model of communication
Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model of communication: a 1973/1980 cultural studies framework in which producers encode preferred meanings and audiences decode them as dominant-hegemonic, negotiated, or oppositional readings.
Encomienda
The encomienda, or encomienda system, was a Spanish Crown grant of indigenous people to a colonist, who could exact tribute in exchange for protection and Christian instruction.
Encomium
An encomium (Greek enkōmion) is a formal composition in prose or verse praising a person, event, or idea, originally a Greek choral song for a victorious athlete.
Encompass (radiotherapy system)
Encompass is a frameless head-and-neck immobilization system for intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery, using a custom-molded thermoplastic mask that limits head motion to less than 1 mm; developed by Qfix, it received FDA clearance in 2015.
Encopresis
Encopresis (fecal incontinence, soiling) is involuntary stool passage in children past toilet-training age, usually overflow around constipation impaction; retentive vs non-retentive subtypes; treated with disimpaction, laxatives, and behavioral therapy.
Encorafenib
Encorafenib (Braftovi, LGX818) is an oral BRAF kinase inhibitor by Array BioPharma/Pfizer, approved 2018 with binimetinib for BRAF V600E/K melanoma and later for BRAF V600E colorectal cancer and NSCLC.
Encorafenib plus binimetinib
Encorafenib plus binimetinib is an oral targeted-therapy regimen combining a BRAF and a MEK inhibitor, approved in the United States in 2018 for BRAF V600-mutant melanoma.
Encord
Encord is a London-based AI data platform company founded by Eric Landau and Ulrik Stig Hansen (Y Combinator W21), offering multimodal annotation, curation, and evaluation tools for physical AI and enterprise teams, with $110M raised including a $60M Series C in 2026.
Encore (Eminem album)
Encore is Eminem's fifth studio album, released November 12, 2004 on Shady/Aftermath/Interscope, produced by Eminem and Dr. Dre. Known for Yellow Brick Road, Mockingbird, Mosh, and Just Lose It, it scored 64 on Metacritic and topped the UK chart.
Encore ABJ
Encore ABJ, born Abhijay Negi, is an Indian rapper from Delhi and one half of the hip-hop duo Seedhe Maut, known for albums Bayaan (2018) and Nayaab (2022).
Encounter (magazine)
Encounter was a London-based monthly magazine of politics, culture, and literature published from 1953 to 1990 or 1991 and secretly funded by the CIA, a scandal exposed in 1967.
Encounter (남자친구) (South Korean TV series)
Encounter (남자친구, also Boyfriend) is a 2018-2019 tvN South Korean romance drama in 16 episodes, starring Song Hye-kyo and Park Bo-gum as a hotel CEO and her employee who meet in Cuba; first Korean drama to film in Cuba.
Encounter at Farpoint
Encounter at Farpoint, the two-hour 1987 pilot of Star Trek: The Next Generation written by D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry, premiered in syndication September 28, 1987, introducing Picard, the Enterprise-D, and Q.
Encrinus
Encrinus (Lamarck, 1801) is an extinct genus of stalked crinoids, type of Encrinidae, famous from the Middle Triassic Muschelkalk of Europe; its species E. liliiformis fed in clusters up to 1.5 m above the seafloor.
EncroChat
EncroChat was an encrypted mobile-phone network used mainly by organized crime groups until French and Dutch investigators infiltrated it in 2020, leading to thousands of arrests.
Encrypted Client Hello
Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is a TLS extension that lets clients encrypt the ClientHello, hiding the server name from on-path observers, standardized in RFC 9849 in March 2026.
Encryption
Encryption converts readable plaintext into unreadable ciphertext using an algorithm and a cryptographic key, and only parties holding the correct key can decrypt the original information back.
Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería
The Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería is an annual mariachi and charrería festival held since 1994 in Guadalajara and other Jalisco municipalities, Mexico.
Encyclia
Encyclia, known as the butterfly orchid, is a genus of about 174 epiphytic orchids in subtribe Laeliinae, native from Florida and Mexico south to Brazil and Argentina.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica, also known as Britannica Online, is the oldest English-language encyclopedia, first published in Edinburgh in 1768 and now a digital reference company in Chicago.
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (EB11, 1910–1911): 29-volume encyclopedia edited by Hugh Chisholm, published by Cambridge University Press, with 1,507 contributors, 44 million words, and public-domain status.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is the Chicago-based publisher of the Encyclopædia Britannica, founded in Edinburgh in 1768, owner of Merriam-Webster, last print edition 2010, now a digital education company serving 150 million students.
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings
The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a five-volume chess opening reference first published from 1974 to 1979 by Šahovski Informator of Belgrade, whose classification assigns openings codes from A00 to E99.
Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature
The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature is a multi-volume English-language encyclopedia of Indian literature published by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, in six volumes from 1987 to 1994.
Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline
Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline (Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse), Hegel's 1817 Heidelberg compendium of his entire mature system in three parts: Logic, Nature, Spirit; revised 1827 and 1830.
Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia, also called a general encyclopaedia, is a reference work of concise entries giving topic overviews, distinguished from dictionaries by summarizing subjects rather than defining words.
Encyclopedia Brown
Encyclopedia Brown is Donald J. Sobol's children's mystery series (1963-2012, 29 books) starring ten-year-old Leroy Brown of Idaville, who solves ten fair-play mysteries per book with solutions printed at the back for readers to match.