ES
Encyclopedia
Geography
- SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, a country in Europe, ES (Short for EspañaEspañaEspaña may refer to:* Spain, in Spanish* Spanish battleship España , the name of the Alfonso XIII after 1931* España, a battleship that served in the Spanish Navy from 1913 to 1923...
) in the ISO 3166-1 country code - El SalvadorEl SalvadorEl Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...
, FIPS 10-4 country code - Espírito SantoEspírito SantoEspírito Santo is one of the states of southeastern Brazil, often referred to by the abbreviation "ES". Its capital is Vitória and the largest city is Vila Velha. The name of the state means literally "holy spirit" after the Holy Ghost of Christianity...
, a state in Brazil, ISO 3166-2:BR code - EšEšEš is a village and municipality in Pelhřimov District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 50 ....
, a village in the Czech RepublicCzech RepublicThe Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
Science
- E-skip, or sporadic E, a concept related to broadcast frequencies
- Edison screwEdison screwThe Edison screw fitting is a system of connectors used for light bulbs, developed by Thomas Edison and licensed starting in 1909 under the Mazda trademark. Most have a right-hand threading, so that it goes in when turned clockwise and comes out when turned counterclockwise, like a hardware screw...
, a kind of lightbulb socket whose sizes are preceded with ES (e.g. ES14). - EinsteiniumEinsteiniumEinsteinium is a synthetic element with the symbol Es and atomic number 99. It is the seventh transuranic element, and an actinide.Einsteinium was discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952, and named after Albert Einstein...
, a synthetic chemical element (Es) - Embryonic stem cellEmbryonic stem cellEmbryonic stem cells are pluripotent stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst, an early-stage embryo. Human embryos reach the blastocyst stage 4–5 days post fertilization, at which time they consist of 50–150 cells...
, a type of pluripotent stem cell derived from an early-stage embryo - Esophageal sphincterEsophageal sphincterThe term esophageal sphincter refers to one of two sphincters that are part of the esophagus:*lower esophageal sphincter which leads into the cardia....
- Exasecond, an SI unit of time
- Exasiemens, an SI unit of electric conductance
Computer technology
- .es.es.es is the country code top-level domain for Spain. It is administered by the Network Information Center of Spain.Registrations are permitted at the second level or at the third level beneath various generic second level categories. Some qualifications and restrictions apply to third-level...
, top-level Internet domain for Spain - Es shellEs shellThe es shell is a command line interpreter developed by Byron Rakitzis and Paul Haahr, that uses a scripting language similar to the rc shell of the Plan 9 operating system. It is intended to provide a fully functional programming language as a Unix shell. The bulk of es' development occurred in...
, a Unix shell - ES EVMES EVMES EVM was a series of clones of IBM's System/360 and System/370 mainframes, released in the Comecon countries under the initiative of the Soviet Union since the 1960s. Production continued until 1998...
, a Soviet series of IBM computer clones - Elementary streamElementary streamAn elementary stream as defined by MPEG communication protocol is usually the output of an audio or video encoder. ES contains only one kind of data, e.g. audio, video or closed caption. An elementary stream is often referred to as "elementary", "data", "audio", or "video" bitstreams or streams...
, part of the MPEG communication protocol - Es (operating system)Es (operating system)es is a computer operating system developed originally by Nintendo and since 2008 by Google. The operating system runs natively on x86, and includes a kernel written in C++...
, an operating system from Nintendo - ES register of x86 computer architecture
- Errored Seconds
- Expert Systems - in context of Artificial Intelligence
Media and entertainment
- E's, a manga series by Satoru Yuiga
- Es, a 1966 West German film directed by Ulrich SchamoniUlrich SchamoniUlrich Schamoni was a German film director, screenwriter, actor and media proprietor.-Biography:Schamoni began his career as an assistant director, among others for William Dieterle. He was a signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962. His first feature film, Es, won five Deutsche Filmpreise...
—see It (1966 film)It (1966 film)It is a 1966 West German film directed by Ulrich Schamoni and starring Sabine Sinjen and Bruno Dietrich. The film tells the story of a young couple and the marriage crisis resulting from a concealed pregnancy and abortion.... - ES (Eternal Sabbath)ES (Eternal Sabbath)is an eight volume manga series by Fuyumi Soryo.ES is a gene developed by a group of scientists who sought immortality. The presence of the gene grants the carrier up to 200 years of life immune from all viruses...
, a manga by Fuyumi Soryo - Es (band)Es (band)Es is a recording project of Finnish musician Sami Sänpäkkilä. The project began around 1993 when Sänpäkkilä started experimenting with sound. Es' first album was released in 2000 on the K-RAA-K label...
, a Finnish music project - Ensemble StudiosEnsemble StudiosEnsemble Studios was a video game developer initially established in 1995 as an independent company, but was owned by Microsoft from 2001 to 2009, when it was officially disbanded. Ensemble developed many real-time strategy games, including the Age of Empires game series, Age of Mythology, and Halo...
, Strategy game producer - ES, a weekly features and arts magazine, a supplement of the Evening StandardEvening StandardThe Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...
- Eternal SilenceEternal SilenceEternal Silence is a Half-Life 2 modification blending FPS and space combat genres in a team based multiplayer game. The first public release, beta 1.0, was released on September 23, 2006. It was originally developed as a mod of Battlefield 1942, then converted to the Source engine. The latest...
, FPS/ space-combat video game built on the 2004 Source engine. - Enter ShikariEnter ShikariEnter Shikari are a British band, that combine post-hardcore with elements of various electronic genres, formed in 2003 in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The band is named after a boat belonging to Roughton "Rou" Reynolds' uncle, and a character in a play which he wrote before forming the band, both of...
, an English Metalcore Band
Companies and products
- Gibson ES SeriesGibson ES SeriesThe Gibson ES series of semi-acoustic guitar are manufactured by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. The letters ES stand for Electric Spanish, to distinguish them from Hawaiian-style guitars which were played flat on the lap....
, a line of guitars - Lexus ESLexus ESThe Lexus ES series is a family of mid-size luxury sedans sold by Lexus since 1989. Now in its fifth generation, the series has been consistently built on the Toyota Camry platform with a V6 engine, automatic transmission, and front-wheel drive...
, a series of automobiles - Euro ShopperEuro ShopperEuro Shopper is a discount brand of everyday commodities developed and marketed by AMS Sourcing B.V.. It was introduced to the market in 1996 and Euro Shopper branded products have been sold by some of the AMS members in different countries in Europe ever since.Euro Shopper products mostly include...
, a discount brand
Other uses
- Spanish languageSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, ES in the ISO 639 alpha-2 language code (ES is short for Español, the Spanish word for "Spanish") - Es (cyrillic)Es (Cyrillic)Es is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "sand".-History:...
, a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet that looks like the Latin letter C - EurosinkutEurosinkutEurosinkut is a free-form community for Finnish single people. It organises many kinds of activities all around Finland....
, abbreviated as *es, a Finnish singles community - E-mini S&PE-mini S&PE-Mini S&P, often abbreviated to "E-mini" and designated by the commodity ticker symbol ES, is a stock market index futures contract traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's Globex electronic trading platform...
, a futures contract on the Chicago Mercantile that uses the symbol ES - EurostarEurostarEurostar is a high-speed railway service connecting London with Paris and Brussels. All its trains traverse the Channel Tunnel between England and France, owned and operated separately by Eurotunnel....
, a train service - DHL International Aviation ME, ES in IATA code
- A phonetic spelling of the Latin alphabet letter SSS is the nineteenth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.-History: Semitic Šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative . Greek did not have this sound, so the Greek sigma came to represent...
- An alternate name for the musical noteNoteIn music, the term note has two primary meanings:#A sign used in musical notation to represent the relative duration and pitch of a sound;#A pitched sound itself....
E♭ (E-flat) - Série économique et sociale, a specialization within the French academic "baccalauréat" degree
- License place code Esslingen (district)Esslingen (district)Esslingen is a district in the centre of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Rems-Murr, Göppingen, Reutlingen, Böblingen and the district-free city Stuttgart.-History:...
, in Germany - Emirates StadiumEmirates StadiumAshburton Grove, currently known as the Emirates Stadium, is a UEFA elite football stadium which is home to Arsenal FC, where they moved from Highbury in 2006. It has an current capacity of 60,361, and there have been rumours of an expansion...
, the home of Arsenal FC - Emekli Sandığı, a social security organization in TurkeyTurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
- An abbreviation for Environmental Studies, as used by the University of WaterlooUniversity of WaterlooThe University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
Faculty of Environment Student Society. - Expected shortfallExpected shortfallExpected shortfall is a risk measure, a concept used in finance to evaluate the market risk or credit risk of a portfolio. It is an alternative to value at risk that is more sensitive to the shape of the loss distribution in the tail of the distribution...
, a measure of risk