3-letter words starting with e
- emm — (storage) Expanded Memory Manager.
- emo — A style of rock music resembling punk but having more complex arrangements and lyrics that deal with more emotional subjects.
- emp — Employee.
- ems — Expanded Memory Specification
- emt — emergency medical technician
- emu — A large flightless fast-running Australian bird resembling the ostrich, with shaggy gray or brown plumage, bare blue skin on the head and neck, and three-toed feet.
- emv — expected monetary value: the product of the monetary outcome of a particular decision in a decision tree and the probability of this outcome happening
- emx — A programming environment for OS/2 by Eberhard Mattes <[email protected]>. EMX supports programming in C, C++ and Objective C. It works with gcc, g++, gdb, libg++, .obj linkage, DLL and headers. Version 0.8g. Mailing list: <[email protected]> ("subscribe to emx-list").
- en- — En- is added to words to form verbs that describe the process of putting someone into a particular state, condition, or place, or to form adjectives and nouns that describe that process or those states and conditions.
- enc — Enclosure (indicating that a letter is accompanied by further material).
- end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
- ene — in an east-northeasterly direction
- eng — Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in runni'ng' and ri'n'k.
- enl — enlarged
- eno — Brian (Peter George St Baptiste de la Salle). born 1948, English musician, noted esp as a member (1971–73) of Roxy Music, a collaborator with David Bowie (1977–79), a pioneer of ambient music, and record producer of acts such as U2 and Coldplay
- enq — 1. (character) /enkw/ or /enk/ ENQuire. The mnemonic for ASCII character 5. 2. (chat) An on-line convention for querying someone's availability. After opening a chat connection to someone apparently in heavy hack mode, one might type "SYN SYN ENQ?" (the SYNs representing notional synchronisation bytes), and expect a return of ACK or NAK depending on whether or not the person felt interruptible. Compare ping, finger.
- ens — Ensign.
- ent — (fantasy) A fictional large talking tree.
- env — envelope
- eny — Eye dialect of any.
- eo- — early or primeval
- eoc — Equal Opportunities Commission
- eoe — equal opportunity employment
- eof — End Of File 1. The out-of-band value returned by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached. This value is -1 under C libraries postdating V6 Unix, but was originally 0. 2. The keyboard character (usually control-D, the ASCII EOT (End Of Transmission) character) that is mapped by the Unix terminal driver into an end-of-file condition.
- eol — 1. End Of Line. 2. Expression Oriented Language. A low-level language for strings. Versions: EOL-1, EOL-2, EOL-3. ["EOL - A Symbol Manipulation Language", L. Lukaszewicz, Computer J 10(1):53 (May 1967)].
- eon — An indefinite and very long period of time, often a period exaggerated for humorous or rhetorical effect.
- eor — exclusive or
- eos — the winged goddess of the dawn, the daughter of Hyperion
- eot — 1. (character) End Of Transmission 2. (storage) End Of Tape. A marker used on magnetic tapes.
- eou — (character, humour) The mnemonic of a mythical ASCII control character (End Of User) that would make an ASR-33 Teletype explode on receipt. This construction parodies the numerous obscure delimiter and control characters left in ASCII from the days when it was associated more with wire-service teletypes than computers (e.g. FS, GS, RS, US, EM, SUB, ETX, and especially EOT). It is worth remembering that ASR-33s were big, noisy mechanical beasts with a lot of clattering parts; the notion that one might explode was nowhere near as ridiculous as it might seem to someone sitting in front of a tube or flatscreen today.
- ep- — epi-
- epa — eicosapentaenoic acid: a fatty acid, found in certain fish oils, that can reduce blood cholesterol
- epg — electronic programme guide
- epi — A syringe or autoinjector filled with epinephrine, most frequently used for the treatment of acute allergic reactions to avoid or treat the onset of anaphylactic shock.
- epl — 1. Early PL/I. 2. Experimental Programming Language. 3. Eden Programming Language. 4. Equational Programming Language 5. Ethernet Private Line
- epo — EPO is a drug that can improve performance in sports and is used illegally by some sportspeople. EPO is short for 'erythropoietin'.
- epp — enhanced parallel port
- epr — electron paramagnetic resonance
- eps — Encapsulated PostScript
- epz — export processing zone: an industrial area containing many foreign-owned factories
- eqc — Earthquake Commission
- eql — An equational language. Bharat Jayaraman <[email protected]>. "EqL: The Language and its Implementation", B. Jayaraman et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-15(6):771-780 (June 1989).
- eqn — Language for typesetting mathematics. "A System for Typesetting Mathematics", B.W. Kernighan and L.L. Cherry, CACM 18(3):151-157 (Mar 1975).
- era — A long and distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic.
- erc — (database) An extended entity-relationship model.
- erd — (dialect, rare) Alternative form of earth.
- ere — Before (in time).
- erf — Inheritance; patrimony.
- erg — A unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one dyne when its point of application moves one centimeter in the direction of action of the force.
- erk — (British) a member of the groundcrew in the RAF.