Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Wiktionary
- n. ESRB rating Everyone.
- n. East.
- n. street slang The illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA).
- n. The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade.
- n. The fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- n. Representing × 10x in floating-point notation.
- n. computing Hexadecimal symbol for 14.
- n. physics Energy.
- n. biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamic acid
- n. mathematics expectation function
- n. The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
- n. The ordinal number fifth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
Etymologies
- From Middle English and Old English upper case letter E and split of Æ, EA, EO, and Œ, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters: (Wiktionary)
Examples
“On this view, a particular experience E that is a veridical perception of a particular mind-independent object O will have an intentional content with a demonstrative element that successfully refers to O, and a distinct particular experience E* will have an intentional content with the same veridicality conditions only if its intentional content contains a demonstrative element that also refers to O.”
“E and its negation ~E (assumed to be the locus of all the non-inferential changes in probability) from initial probabilities between zero and one to”
“A corollary is that, where H entails E, ~E would disconfirm H, by reducing its probability to zero.”
“While a proponent of theistic pragmatic arguments cannot swear allegiance to (E), she can, clearly enough, adhere to (E²).”
“H receives a greater increment (or lesser decrement) of evidential support from E than from E* if and only if PE (H) exceeds”
“E and E* provide for H is the amount by which the incremental evidence that E provides for H exceeds the incremental evidence that E* provides for”
“If H entails both E and E*, say, then Bayes 'Theorem entails that the least probable of the two supports H more strongly.”
“H predicts E more strongly than H* does, and (b) ~H predicts ~E more strongly than”
“The effective increment of evidence [12] that E provides for H is the amount by which the incremental evidence that E provides for H exceeds the incremental evidence that ~E provides for H.”
“E provides more incremental evidence than E* does for H”
Lists
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All Things Scrabble
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Boy or Girl Letters?
I recently had a discussion with my family on the sex of language. So I was just wondering about y'all's opinions on the gender/sex of American English letters.
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E
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
Tweets
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Jubjub Boy Jan 2, 2010