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Esprit (CAM software)

Esprit is a computer-aided manufacturing software system for CNC programming, optimization, and simulation, originally developed by DP Technology Corp. and now sold by Hexagon as ESPRIT EDGE.

Esrange

Esrange, also known as Esrange Space Center, is a rocket range, balloon base, and satellite ground station 45 km east of Kiruna in northern Sweden, established in 1966.

Esri

Esri, formally Environmental Systems Research Institute, is an American software company founded by Jack and Laura Dangermond in 1969 in Redlands, California, best known for the ArcGIS platform.

Essar Energy

Essar Energy is the energy arm of India's Essar Group, owner of the Stanlow refinery in Cheshire, England, which supplies about 16% of UK road transport fuels.

Essar Steel

Essar Steel was an Indian steel producer based in Hazira, Gujarat, that entered insolvency in 2017 and was acquired by ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel in 2019.

Essential AI

Essential AI is a San Francisco AI startup founded in 2023 by Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar, co-authors of the 2017 transformer paper, to build enterprise large language models.

Essential Air Service

Essential Air Service (EAS) is a US federal program, created by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, subsidizing scheduled flights to small and remote communities.

Essential Phone

The Essential Phone (Essential PH-1) is an Android smartphone announced in 2017 by Essential, the startup founded by Android co-creator Andy Rubin, known for its bezel-free display.

Essential Products

Essential Products was an American consumer technology company founded in 2015 by Andy Rubin, co-creator of Android, best known for the Essential Phone released in 2017.

Essential Utilities

Essential Utilities, Inc. (NYSE: WTRG) is a Pennsylvania holding company providing regulated water, wastewater, and natural gas services to about 5.5 million people in nine states.

Essentials (PlayStation)

Essentials is the base membership plan of PlayStation Plus, Sony's subscription service for PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles. It provides monthly games, online multiplayer, discounts, and 100 GB of cloud storage.

Essex (whaleship)

The Essex was a Nantucket whaleship rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific on November 20, 1820; its crew's three-month open-boat ordeal inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.

Essex E. Finney Jr.

Essex E. Finney Jr. is an American agricultural engineer who led the USDA's Agricultural Research Service and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Essex-class aircraft carrier

The Essex-class aircraft carrier, also known as the Essex class, was a class of 24 fleet carriers built for the United States Navy between 1942 and 1950.

Esso

Esso is a fuel brand of ExxonMobil, named for the initials S and O of Standard Oil and introduced in 1926, sold today in Europe, Canada, and other markets outside the United States.

Estación Fernández Oro gas field

Estación Fernández Oro is a tight gas and condensate field in Río Negro, Argentina, producing from the Lajas formation and accounting for about half the province's gas.

Estadio Monumental (Buenos Aires)

The Estadio Monumental, officially Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti, is River Plate's stadium in Buenos Aires and the largest in South America, hosting the 1978 World Cup final.

Estadio Olímpico Universitario

Estadio Olímpico Universitario is a stadium on the UNAM campus in Mexico City, opened in 1952, the main venue of the 1968 Olympics and home of Pumas UNAM.

Esteban A. Brignole

Esteban A. Brignole is an Argentine chemical engineer at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, known for solvent design and elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Estes Industries

Estes Industries is an American model rocket company founded by Vern and Gleda Estes in 1958, known for rocket kits, engines, and STEM education programs.

Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country

The estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country ranks civilian-held firearms per 100 residents, drawing on the Small Arms Survey's 2017 global database.

Estimation by analogy

Estimation by analogy, also called analogy-based estimation, is a software engineering technique that predicts a project's effort or cost from the effort values of similar completed projects.

Estoc

The estoc, also called a tuck or Panzerstecher, is a long, narrow thrusting sword of the late medieval and Renaissance period, built to pierce armor.

ESWEEK

ESWEEK (Embedded Systems Week) is an annual event, created in 2005, that co-locates the embedded systems conferences CASES, CODES+ISSS, and EMSOFT with symposia, workshops, tutorials, and a PhD forum.

ET-LDHCM

ET-LDHCM, an Indian DRDO hypersonic cruise missile program, was flight-tested in July 2025 and is reported at Mach 8 with a 1,500 km strike range under Project Vishnu.

Eta Kappa Nu

Eta Kappa Nu, also known as IEEE-HKN, is the international honor society of the IEEE, founded in 1904 at the University of Illinois and merged into IEEE in 2010.

ETA SA

ETA SA, also known as ETA a.s., is a Czech manufacturer of household appliances, founded in Hlinsko in 1943 and known for vacuum cleaners, irons, and kitchen machines.

ETABS

ETABS is a structural analysis and design software package for buildings by Computers and Structures, Inc. of California, first released in 1979 and used to model the Burj Khalifa.

Etango uranium project

The Etango uranium project, formerly known as Goanikontes, is a large undeveloped uranium mine in Namibia's Erongo Region owned by Australia-listed Bannerman Energy, holding 207 million pounds of contained U3O8.

ETAP (software)

ETAP (Electrical Transient Analyzer Program) is commercial software for modeling, design, analysis, and automation of electrical power systems, first released in 1986 by Operation Technology of Irvine, California.