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Enola Gay

The Enola Gay is the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.

Enon (robot)

Enon (エノン) was a wheeled office service robot developed by Fujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu Laboratories, sold in limited numbers in Japan from 2005 for guidance, transport, and patrol tasks.

Enovix

Enovix is an American Silicon Valley battery manufacturer founded in 2007 that makes lithium-ion batteries with a 100% active silicon anode, targeting smartphones, wearables, and defense.

Enphase Energy

Enphase Energy is a Fremont, California energy technology company founded in 2006 by Raghu Belur and Martin Fornage, which has shipped about 87.8 million microinverters to systems in over 165 countries.

Enping 23-1 Oil Field

Enping 23-1 (恩平23-1) is an offshore oil field in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea, operated by CNOOC, which began production in 2017.

Enquest

EnQuest PLC is a British independent oil and gas company focused on mature, late-life assets in the UK North Sea and South East Asia, listed in London.

Enrico Traversa

Enrico Traversa, born in Rome in 1959, is an Italian materials chemist and professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata known for fuel cell research.

Enrollment over Secure Transport

Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) is an IETF protocol, specified in RFC 7030 in 2013, that enrolls PKI client certificates over TLS-secured HTTP using CMC messages, supporting enrollment, re-enrollment, and CA certificate retrieval.

ENSCO

ENSCO, Inc. is a privately held American technology company in Vienna, Virginia, founded in 1969, best known for its railway track inspection subsidiary ENSCO Rail.

Ensembl

Ensembl is a public genome browser and annotation database based at EMBL-EBI in the United Kingdom, founded in 1999 to automatically annotate genomes with open-access gene, variation, and comparative data.

Ensemble clustering

Ensemble clustering, also called consensus clustering, is a machine learning method that combines multiple clusterings of the same data into a single consensus partition, improving quality and robustness.

Ensemble learning

Ensemble learning, also called ensemble methods, is a machine learning approach that combines predictions from multiple models into one, using methods like bagging, boosting, and stacking.

Ensemble regression

Ensemble regression is a machine learning method that combines several regression models into one predictor, typically by averaging, so that individual errors partially cancel; bagging and boosting are the classical ways of building it.

Ensemble simulation

An ensemble simulation runs a numerical model many times with slightly different initial conditions, parameters, or formulations, so the spread among runs estimates forecast uncertainty, underpinning operational weather and climate prediction since 1992.

Ensign Energy Services

Ensign Energy Services is a Calgary-based oilfield services company, incorporated in 1987, providing land-based contract drilling and well servicing to oil and gas industries in Canada, the United States, and internationally.

Ensoniq

Ensoniq was an American electronic musical instrument and audio-chip manufacturer in Malvern, Pennsylvania, best known for the Mirage sampling keyboard, the ESQ-1 synthesizer, and the AudioPCI sound card.

Enstrom Helicopter Corporation

Enstrom Helicopter Corporation, founded by Rudy Enstrom in 1959, is a helicopter manufacturer in Menominee, Michigan, known for the piston F-28 and 280 series and the turbine 480 series.

Ensyn

Ensyn Corporation is a private renewable fuels and chemicals company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that converts woody biomass into liquid biocrude using its proprietary Rapid Thermal Processing fast pyrolysis technology.

Entebbe (film)

Entebbe, also 7 Days in Entebbe (שבעה ימים באנטבה), a 2018 José Padilha political thriller with Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl dramatizing the 1976 Air France hijacking and Israeli hostage rescue at Entebbe, Uganda; premiered out of competition at Berlin, US release March 16, 2018, Metascore 49.

Entebbe International Airport

Entebbe International Airport, also known as Entebbe Airport, is Uganda's primary international airport on the shores of Lake Victoria, commissioned in 1951 and located about 40 kilometers southwest of Kampala.

Entebbe raid

The Entebbe raid, also called Operation Jonathan, was an Israeli military operation on July 3–4, 1976 that freed 102 hostages hijacked on Air France Flight 139 at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.

Entebbe–Kampala Expressway

The Entebbe–Kampala Expressway, also called the Kampala–Entebbe Expressway, is Uganda's first toll road, a 51 km four-lane expressway linking Entebbe International Airport with Kampala, completed in 2018.

Entegris

Entegris, Inc. is an American supplier of advanced materials and contamination control products for the semiconductor industry, headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts and formed in 1999.

Entel (Chile)

Entel (Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) is a Chilean telecommunications company operating mobile and fixed-line services in Chile and Peru, the largest mobile operator in Chile.

Enter key

The Enter key, also called the Return key, is the keyboard key that confirms input, submits forms, and starts new lines; Return is the older typewriter name.

Entergy

Entergy is a New Orleans-based Fortune 500 electric utility holding company that generates, transmits, and distributes power to more than 3 million customers in four Gulf South states.

Entergy Arkansas

Entergy Arkansas is a regulated electric utility, a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation, that serves about 738,000 customers in 63 Arkansas counties, tracing to Arkansas Power and Light.

Entergy Louisiana

Entergy Louisiana is an electric and natural gas utility subsidiary of Entergy Corporation, serving about 1.1 million customers in 58 of Louisiana's 64 parishes plus gas customers in Baton Rouge.

Entergy Mississippi

Entergy Mississippi, LLC is an investor-owned electric utility, founded in 1923, serving about 459,000 customers in 45 Mississippi counties as a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation.

Entergy New Orleans

Entergy New Orleans is an electric utility and Entergy Corporation subsidiary serving about 209,000 customers in New Orleans, Louisiana, regulated by the City Council rather than the state.