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Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of ea.. alt-of, alternative
- 1 Initialism of Environment Agency. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 The name of Enki in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.
"The Chaldeans had great faith in Ea, their god of healing, to whom prayers were said in case of sickness, but herb remedies were also given the patient by the god's representative in the community."
- 3 Initialism of Eid al-Adha. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 Initialism of East Africa. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 Initialism of Electronic Arts. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added."
- 1 A river or watercourse. UK, archaic, dialectal
"And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song of all the birds around; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high overhead, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see."
- 2 Initialism of executive assistant. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 3 Abbreviation of elastane abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
- 4 Initialism of estate agent. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 5 Initialism of enrolled agent. US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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- 6 Initialism of educational assistant. Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 7 Initialism of ethyl acetate. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"For copolymers of ethylene, the other comonomer can be an alkene such as propene, butene, hexene or octene, or a compound having a polar functional group such as vinyl acetate (VA), acrylic acid (AA), ethyl acetate (EA), methyl acrylate (MA) or vinyl alcohol (VOH)."
- 8 Initialism of environmental assessment. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"After the EA is issued, a public hearing and associated public comment period will be held to again solicit public input and to create an administrative record."
- 9 Initialism of enterprise architecture. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 10 Initialism of evolutionary algorithm. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 11 Initialism of effective altruism. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"[…] Christine Emba’s Sept. 6 op-ed, “The trouble with ‘longtermism,’ ” countered this philosophy’s occasional fanaticism with glib reductiveness. Moreover, she tarred with the same brush the spirit of the entire effective altruism (EA) movement — the giveaway at the start is that EA is derided for being “obsessed with ‘doing good better.’ ”"
- 12 Initialism of effective altruist. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"In November, 2022, when ChatGPT was released, [Sam] Bankman-Fried, the richest and most famous effective altruist, was unmasked as a generational talent at white-collar crime. Many E.A.s now disavow the label: I interviewed people who had attended E.A. conferences, lived in E.A. group houses, and admitted to being passionate about both effectiveness and altruism, but would not cop to being E.A.s themselves."
Etymology
From Middle English ee, ea, æ, from Old English ēa (“river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu (“waters, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Compare English aqua. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian ia (“river”), Saterland Frisian Äi (“river”), West Frisian ie (“water, stream”), Dutch a (“water, stream”), German Ache (“water, stream, river, flood”), Danish å (“stream, creek”), Swedish å (“stream, creek”), Icelandic á (“stream, river”), Latin aqua (“water”).
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