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Eschede train disaster

The Eschede train disaster, also called the Eschede derailment, was a 1998 rail crash near Eschede, Germany, in which a derailed ICE high-speed train killed 101 people.

eSCN

eSCN, or Equivariant Spherical Channel Network, is a graph neural network for 3D atomic data, introduced at Meta AI in 2023, achieving state-of-the-art catalyst results.

Escobar FSRU

Escobar FSRU, also known as GNL Escobar, is Argentina's LNG import terminal, a floating storage and regasification unit opened in 2011 on the Paraná River near Buenos Aires.

Escort carrier

An escort carrier, called a jeep carrier or baby flattop, is a small, slow aircraft carrier built to protect convoys and hunt submarines during World War II.

Escorts, minesweepers and small warships sunk by aircraft

Escorts, minesweepers, and small warships sunk by aircraft covers the light combatants destroyed by air attack during World War II, when aircraft sank 44 percent of Mediterranean shipping losses.

Escota

Escota is a French toll motorway concession company operating a 471 km network around Marseille and Nice, opened France's first toll motorway in 1961, and is owned by VINCI.

Escravos

Escravos is a crude oil and natural gas complex at the mouth of the Escravos River in Nigeria's Niger Delta, operated by Chevron Nigeria Limited, and the name of the light sweet crude grade loaded there.

Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System (ELPS)

The Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System (ELPS) is Nigeria's main natural gas pipeline, running about 270 km from Escravos in Delta State to Egbin in Lagos State.

ESEC/FSE

ESEC/FSE was the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, a software engineering conference merged into one in 2017.

ESEM (conference)

ESEM, the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, is an annual academic conference on empirical software engineering and software measurement, formed in 2007.

Esentia Energy Systems

Esentia Energy Systems is a Mexican natural gas transportation company that owns the Wahalajara System, over 2,000 km of pipelines moving gas from West Texas to central Mexico.

ESET

ESET is a privately held Slovak IT security company headquartered in Bratislava. Founded in 1992, it develops malware protection software, best known for ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

Eshima Ohashi Bridge (江島大橋)

The Eshima Ohashi Bridge (江島大橋) is a 1.7 km road bridge across Lake Nakaumi, connecting Matsue in Shimane Prefecture with Sakaiminato in Tottori, opened in 2004.

Eshkol power station

The Eshkol power station (תחנת הכוח אשכול) is a natural gas-fired power plant in Ashdod, Israel, first operated in 1958 and sold to Dalia Power Energies in 2024.

ESIM

An eSIM, or embedded SIM, is a digital SIM that lets a device activate a cellular plan from a carrier without a physical, removable SIM card, following GSMA specifications.

Esko Ukkonen

Esko Ukkonen, born 1950 in Savonlinna, Finland, is a Finnish computer scientist and University of Helsinki professor whose on-line suffix tree construction and edit-distance algorithms became standard tools for DNA sequence analysis in bioinformatics.

Eskom

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd is South Africa's state-owned electricity utility, founded in 1923 and supplying over 80% of the country's power, recovering after years of loadshedding.

ESLint

ESLint is a configurable, pluggable JavaScript linter that finds potential bugs and style violations and fixes many automatically; it was announced by Nicholas C. Zakas in 2013.

ESM-2

ESM-2 (Evolutionary Scale Modeling 2) is a family of transformer-based protein language models developed by Meta, released in 2022, ranging from 8 million to 15 billion parameters.

ESMFold

ESMFold is a protein structure prediction system developed by Meta AI that predicts a protein's 3D atomic structure from its amino acid sequence alone, released in November 2022.

ESnet

ESnet, the Energy Sciences Network, is the US Department of Energy's high-performance network for its 17 national laboratories, formed in 1986 and stewarded by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Esoteric programming language

An esoteric programming language, or esolang, is a programming language designed not for practical software development but to entertain, to be beautiful, or to make a point about computation.

ESP Guitars

ESP Guitars is a Japanese guitar and bass manufacturer founded in Tokyo in 1975, known for its ESP and LTD lines and metal artist signature models.

ESP32

The ESP32 is a low-cost, low-power system-on-chip microcontroller from Espressif Systems, launched in September 2016, combining 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with one or two 32-bit processor cores.

ESP8266

ESP8266, a low-cost Wi-Fi system on chip from Espressif Systems, launched in May 2014, is now marked as Not Recommended for New Designs in favor of the ESP8664.

Espadarte Oil Field

The Espadarte Oil Field is a deepwater Petrobras field in Brazil's Campos Basin, about 110 km off Rio de Janeiro, discovered in 1988 with an estimated 428 million barrels.

Espadrille

The espadrille, also known as the alpargata, is a light casual shoe with a canvas upper and a flexible sole of braided jute, laced around the ankle.

ESPN (streaming service)

ESPN, also called ESPN Unlimited, is The Walt Disney Company's sports streaming service launched on August 21, 2025, offering all 12 ESPN networks without a cable subscription.

Espressif IoT Development Framework

The Espressif IoT Development Framework, known as ESP-IDF, is the official software development kit for programming Espressif's ESP32 series chips in C and C++, bundling a FreeRTOS kernel and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stacks.

Espressif Systems

Espressif Systems, also known as Espressif (乐鑫), is a fabless semiconductor company in Shanghai, China, founded in 2008 by Teo Swee Ann and known for the ESP8266 and ESP32 chips.