| CODE | ABBREVIATION |
|
E
| Exponent (commonly used in largnumbers ie: 3.20E8) |
|
E&M
| Ear and Mouth |
|
E&MD
| Engineering and Manufacturing Development |
|
E&P
| Exploration and Production (industry) |
|
E.B.E.
| Extraterrestrial Biological Entity [X-Files] |
|
E1
| European 1 |
|
E2EG
| Ear to Ear Grin |
|
E3
| European 3 |
|
E911
| Enhanced 911 (emergency services) |
|
EA
| Electronic Arts / Expedited Acknowledgment / Explorer Advisor / Extended Attribute |
|
EAAT
| Equal Access Alternative Technologies |
|
EADAS
| Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System |
|
EADAS/NM
| EADAS/Network Management |
|
EADASNM
| Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System Network Management |
|
EAEO
| Equal Access End Office |
|
EAP
| Employee Assistance Program |
|
EAR
| Export Administration Regulations |
|
EARN
| European Academic and Research Network - See TERENA |
|
EAROM
| Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory |
|
EAS
| Extended Announcement System / Extended Area Service |
|
EASD
| Equal Access Service Data |
|
EASE
| Embedded Advanced Sampling Environment |
|
EASINET
| European Academic Supercomputer Initiative Network (usually as EASINet) |
|
EAX
| Electronic Automatic Exchange |
|
EB
| Erlang B |
|
EBBS
| Electronic Bulletin Board System |
|
EBCDIC
| Extended Binary Code - Decimal Interchange Code |
|
EBDI
| Electronic Business Data Interchange |
|
EBIOS
| Extended Basic Input/Output System |
|
EBONE
| European Backbone |
|
EBR
| Extended-partition Boot Record |
|
EC
| Electronic Commerce / Error Correction / European Commission / European Community / Exchange Carrier(s) |
|
ECAD
| Engineering Computer Aided Design |
|
ECAI
| European Conference on Artificial Intelligence |
|
ECAP
| Electronic Customer Access Program |
|
ECASH
| Electronic Cash |
|
E-CASH
| Electronic Cash |
|
ECB
| Electronic Code Book / East Coast Crackers / Enter Cable Change / Error Checking and Correcting (memory) / Error Correction Code |
|
ECCS
| Economic C (Hundred) Call Seconds |
|
ECD
| Electronic Cash Disbursements |
|
ECE
| Economic Commission for Europe |
|
ECF
| Enhanced Connectivity Facility |
|
ECFA
| Electronic Communications Forwarding Act |
|
ECITC
| European Committee for Information technology Testing and Certification |
|
ECL
| Emitter-Coupled Logic / End Communication Layer / Error Code Logging |
|
ECM
| Error Correction Mode / Executive Card Manager |
|
ECMA
| European association for standardizing information and communication systems / European Computer Manufacturers Association |
|
ECN
| Explicit Congestion Notification |
|
ECNE
| Enterprise Certified NetWare Engineer / Enterprise Certified Novell Engineer |
|
ECO
| Economic Competitive Opportunity (analysis) / Engineering Change Order |
|
ECOM
| Electronic Computer Originated Mail |
|
E-COM
| Electronic Computer Originated Mail |
|
ECOOP
| European Conference on Object Oriented Programming |
|
ECOS
| Extended Communications Operating System |
|
ECP
| Enhanced Communications Port / Extended Capabilities Port |
|
ECPA
| Electronic Communications Privacy Act (of 1986) |
|
ECPT
| Electronic Coin Public Telephone |
|
ECR
| Engineering Change Request / (OpenView) Event Correlation Services / Electronic Cross-connect System / Enhanced ChipSet |
|
ECS
| Event Communication Service |
|
ECSA
| Exchange Carriers Standards Association |
|
ECTEI
| European Conference of Telecommunications and Electronics Industries |
|
ECTP
| Ethernet Configuration Test Protocol |
|
ECU
| European Currency Unit |
|
ED
| End Delimiter / EWOS Document / Exception Data / ExpeditData / Extra high Density |
|
EDA
| Embedded Document Architecture / Enterprise Data Access |
|
EDAC
| Electromechanical Digital Adaptor Circuit / Error Detection And Correction |
|
EDC
| Engineering Data Center / Error Detection and Correction / Error Detection Code |
|
EDD
| Electronic Document Delivery |
|
EDF
| Execution Diagnostic Facility |
|
EDFA
| Erbium - Doped Fiber Amplifier |
|
EDFG
| Edge Device Functional Group (ATM Forum) |
|
EDI
| Electronic Data Interchange / Electronic Document Interchange |
|
EDIA
| Electronic Data Interchange Association |
|
EDICUSA
| Electronic Data Interchange Council of the United States of America |
|
EDIF
| Electronic Data Interchange Format |
|
EDIFACT
| Electronic Data Interchange for Finance Administration Commerce and Transport |
|
EDIM
| Electronic Data Interchange user agent Message |
|
EDIME
| Electronic Data Interchange Messaging Environment |
|
EDIMG
| Electronic Data Interchange Messaging |
|
EDIMS
| Electronic Data Interchange Messaging System |
|
EDIN
| Electronic Data Interchange Notification |
|
EDINA
| Edinburgh Data & Information Access / Electronic Data Interchange User Agent |
|
EDL
| Edit Decision List |
|
EDM
| Enterprise Desktop Manager |
|
EDMD
| Electronic Document Message Directory |
|
EDMS
| Electronic Document Management System / Engineering-Design Management System |
|
EDN
| Expedited Data Negotiation |
|
EDO
| Extended-Data Out (RAM) |
|
EDORAM
| Extended Data Out Random Access Memory |
|
EDP
| Electronic Data Processing |
|
EDPT
| Enhanced Drive Parameter Table |
|
EDRAM
| Erasable Dynamic Random Access Memory |
|
EDRS
| Engineering Data Resources Services |
|
EDS
| Electronic Data Systems Corp. |
|
EDSAC
| Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator |
|
EDSD
| Electronic Document Segment Directory |
|
EDSX
| Electronic Digital Signal Cross-Connect/X-connect |
|
EDU
| Education Computer Systems / Educational (usually as .edu) |
|
EDVAC
| Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator |
|
EDWG
| ESnet DECnet Working Group |
|
EE
| End to End Signaling |
|
EEB
| Extended Erlang B |
|
EEC
| Electronic Equipment / European Economic Commission / European Economic Community |
|
EECT
| End-to-End Call Trace |
|
EEDP
| Expanded Electronic Dialing Plan /Expanded Electronic tandem switching Dialing Plan |
|
EEE
| Electronic Equipment Enclosures |
|
EEHO
| Either End Hop Off |
|
EEI
| Equipment-to-Equipment Interface / External Environment Interface |
|
EELED
| Edge Emitting Light Emitting Diode |
|
EEMA
| Electrical and Electronic Manufacturing Association / European Electronic Mail Association |
|
EEMAC
| Electrical and Electronic Manufacturing Association of Canada |
|
EEPG
| European Engineering Planning Group |
|
EEPROM
| Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory |
|
EEST
| Enhanced Ethernet Serial Transciever |
|
EETDN
| End-to-End Transit Delay Negotiation |
|
EETLA
| Extraordinarily Extended Three Letter Acronym |
|
EEVL
| Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library |
|
EF
| Enterprise Framework |
|
EFCI
| Explicit Forward Congestion Indication |
|
EFD
| Event Forwarding Discriminator |
|
EFF
| Electronic Frontier Foundation |
|
EFIN
| Electronic Filing Identification Number |
|
EFLA
| Extended Four Letter Acronym! |
|
EFNET
| Effing Net |
|
EFRAP
| Electronic Feeder Route Analysis Program |
|
EFS
| End Frame Sequence / Error Free Second / Extended Facility Set / External File System / Electronic Funds Transfer |
|
EFTA
| European Free Trade Association |
|
EFTS
| Electronic Funds Transfer System |
|
EG
| Evil Grin / Experts Group |
|
EGA
| Enhanced Graphics Adapter |
|
EGCAE
| Experts Group for Command Application Environment |
|
EG-CAE
| Experts Group for Command Application Environment |
|
EGCT
| Experts Group for Conformance Testing |
|
EG-CT
| Experts Group for Conformance Testing |
|
EGDIR
| Experts Group on Directory |
|
EG-DIR
| Experts Group on Directory |
|
EGFT
| Experts Group on File Transfer |
|
EG-FT
| Experts Group on File Transfer |
|
EGLIB
| Experts Group for Library |
|
EG-LIB
| Experts Group for Library |
|
EGLL
| Experts Group Lower Layers |
|
EG-LL
| Experts Group Lower Layers |
|
EGMHS
| Experts Group for Message Handling System |
|
EG-MHS
| Experts Group for Message Handling System |
|
EGMMS
| Experts Group Manufacturing Message Specification |
|
EG-MMS
| Experts Group Manufacturing Message Specification |
|
EGNM
| Experts Group for Network Management |
|
EG-NM
| Experts Group for Network Management |
|
EGODA
| Experts Group for Office Document Architecture |
|
EG-ODA
| Experts Group for Office Document Architecture |
|
EGP
| Exterior Gateway Protocol |
|
EGTP
| Experts Group on Transaction Processing |
|
EG-TP
| Experts Group on Transaction Processing |
|
EGVT
| Experts Group on Virtual Terminal |
|
EG-VT
| Experts Group on Virtual Terminal |
|
EHA
| European Harmonization Activity |
|
EHF
| Extremely High Frequency |
|
EHLLAPI
| Emulator High Level Language Application Programming Interface |
|
EI
| Ending Inventory |
|
EIA
| Electronic Industries Association |
|
EIB
| Enterprise Information Base |
|
EIC
| Electronic Information Corporation |
|
EIDE
| Enhance Integrated Drive/Device Electronics |
|
EIES
| Electronic Information Exchange System |
|
EIM
| Emirates Internet Madness |
|
EINET
| Enterprise Integration Network |
|
EINOS
| Enhanced Interactive Network Optimization System |
|
EIRP
| Effective Isotropic Radiated Power |
|
EIS
| Electronic Information Security / Enterprise Information System / Enterprise Integration Services / Executive Information System / Expanded Inband Signaling |
|
EISA
| Enhanced/Extended Industry Standard Architecture |
|
EISS
| Economic Impact Study System |
|
EIT
| Encoded Information Type |
|
EIU
| Extended Interface Unit |
|
EIUF
| European ISDN Users' Forum |
|
EJS
| Elite Justice Society |
|
EKTS
| Electronic Key Telephone Service / Electronic Key Telephone Sets |
|
EL
| ElectroLuminescent (display) |
|
ELAN
| Emulated Local Area Network (ATM Forum) |
|
ELAP
| EtherTalk Link Access Protocol |
|
ELD
| ElectroLuminescent Display |
|
ELDS
| Exchange Line Data Service |
|
ELEPL
| Equal Level Echo Path Loss |
|
ELF
| Employee Locater Facility / Extremely Low Frequency |
|
ELS
| Entry Level System |
|
EM
| End of Medium (ASCII) |
|
EMA
| Electronic Mail Association / Electronic Messaging Association / Enterprise Management Architecture |
|
EMACS
| Editing Macros |
|
EMAIL
| Electronic Mail |
|
E-MAIL
| Electronic Mail |
|
EMAPI
| Extended Messaging Application Programming Interface |
|
EMASHE
| Establishing Multimedia Authoring Skills in Higher Education |
|
EMB
| Embedded Memory Block |
|
EMC
| Electromagnetic Capacity / Electromagnetic Compatibility (directive) |
|
EMF
| Electro Motive Force / Electromagnetic Field / Enhanced Metafile Format |
|
EMI
| Electromagnetic Interference |
|
EML
| Expected Measured Loss |
|
EMM
| Expanded Memory Manager / Extended Memory Manager |
|
EMOS
| East Mediterranean Optical System |
|
EMOS1
| East Mediterranean Optical System 1 |
|
EMOTICONS
| Emotion Icons (aka Smileys) |
|
EMP
| Electromagnetic Pulse |
|
EMPM
| Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup |
|
EMR
| Electromagnetic Radiation |
|
EMS
| Expanded Memory Specification / Extended Memory Service |
|
EMSG
| Email Message |
|
EMTAG
| Emerging Technologies Advisory Group (usually as EmTAG) |
|
EMUG
| European MAP/TOP Users' Group |
|
EMV
| European Mastercard VISA |
|
EMWAC
| European Microsoft Windows (NT) Academic Centre |
|
EN
| European Norm/Normes |
|
ENE
| Enterprise Networking Event |
|
ENET
| Ethernet |
|
ENFIA
| Exchange Network Facility for Interstate Access |
|
ENG
| Engineering |
|
ENIAC
| Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator |
|
ENQ
| ENQuiry (ASCII) / Inquiry |
|
ENS
| Enterprise Naming Service |
|
ENSDU
| Expedited Network Service Data Unit |
|
ENTELEC
| Energy Telecommunications and Electrical (association) |
|
EO
| End Office / Erasable Optic |
|
EOA
| End Of Address |
|
EOB
| End Of Burst |
|
EOC
| Embedded Operations Channel |
|
EOD
| End Of Day / End of Discussion |
|
EOE
| Electronic Order Exchange |
|
EOF
| End Of File / Enterprise Object Framework |
|
EOL
| End of Lecture / End Of Life |
|
EOM
| End Of Message |
|
EON
| End Of Number |
|
EOS
| Earth Orbiting Satellite / Element Of Service / Extended Operating System |
|
EOSDIS
| Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
|
EOT
| End Of Text / End Of Thread (i.e. |
|
EOTC
| European Organization for Testing and Certification / End Of Toll Trunking / End Office Toll Trunking |
|
EP
| ElectroPhotographic (toner cartridge) / Emulation Program |
|
EPA
| Elite Programming Association / Environmental Protection Agency |
|
EPABX
| Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange |
|
EPAC
| Extended Privilege Attribute Certificate |
|
EPDM
| Enterprise Product Data Management |
|
EPG
| External Products Group |
|
EPHOS
| European Procurement Handbook for Open Systems |
|
EPI
| Engineering Process Improvement |
|
EPIC
| Effective Performance In Candidates / Electronic Privacy Information Center / Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing / El Paso Intelligence Center |
|
EPL
| Electronic Program Language / Electronic (switching system) Program Language |
|
EPLS
| Engineering Price List System |
|
EPOS
| Electronic Point Of Sale |
|
EPP
| Enhanced Parallel Port / Executive Partner Program |
|
EPRCA
| Enhanced Proportional Rate Control Algorithm (ATM Forum) |
|
EPROM
| Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory |
|
EPS
| Encapsulated Post-Script |
|
EPSCS
| Enhanced Private Switched Communications Service |
|
EPSF
| Encapsulated PostScript Format |
|
EPSRC
| Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (formerly SERC) |
|
EQEEB
| Equivalent Queue Extended Erlang B |
|
ER
| Entity Relationship (modeling) / Error / Error Register |
|
ERA
| Entity Relationship Attribute / Extended Registry Attribute |
|
ERAR
| Error Return Address register |
|
ERD
| Event Report Discriminator |
|
EREP
| Environmental Recording Editing and Printing |
|
ERF
| Emergency Restoration Facility / Event Report Function |
|
ERL
| Echo Return Loss |
|
ERLL
| Enhanced Run Length Limited |
|
ERM
| Electronic Report Management |
|
ERMF
| Event Report Management Function |
|
ERO
| Electronic Return Originator |
|
ERP
| Effective Radiated Power / Enterprise Resource Planning |
|
ERTICO
| European Road Transport Telematics Implementation Coordinating Organization |
|
ERU
| Emergency Recovery Utility / Error Return address Update |
|
ES
| Elektro Shock / End System / Errored Second / Extra Segment |
|
ES&D
| Eat Shit and Die |
|
ESA
| Enterprise Systems Architecture / Errored Second |
|
ESABATM
| Eat Sh*t And Bark at the Moon |
|
ESAC
| Electronic Surveillance Assistance Center |
|
ESAD
| Eat Sh*t And Die |
|
ESADMF
| Eat Sh*t and Die Mother F**ker |
|
ESAFE
| Errored Second |
|
ESAL
| Eat Sh*t And Live |
|
ESB
| Emergency Service Bureau (911) / Entry Systems Business / Errored Second |
|
ESBFE
| Errored Second |
|
ESC
| Engineering Service Circuit |
|
ESCON
| Enterprise Systems Connection (architecture) |
|
ESCP
| Errored Second |
|
ESCRC
| Errored Second |
|
ESD
| Electronic Software Distribution / Electronic Systems Development / Electrostatic Discharge |
|
ESDI
| Enhanced Small Device Interface / Enhanced Small Disk Interface |
|
ESDP
| Educational Services Development and Publishing |
|
ESES
| End System to End System |
|
ES-ES
| End System to End System |
|
ESF
| Extended SuperFrame Format |
|
ESFE
| Errored Second |
|
ESG
| Engineering Systems Group |
|
ESH
| End System Hello |
|
ESIS
| End System to Intermediate System |
|
ES-IS
| End System to Intermediate System |
|
ESL
| Electronic Software Licensing / Emergency Stand-aLone |
|
ESLF
| Eastern Seaboard Liberation Front |
|
ESN
| Electronic Serial Number / Electronic Switched Network |
|
ESNET
| Energy Sciences Network |
|
ESO
| Engineering Support Operations / Entry Server Offering |
|
ESOC
| European Space Operations Center |
|
ESP
| Extra Sensory Perception / Ecstatic Sound Productions / Encapsulating Security Payload / Enhanced Serial Port / Enhanced Service Provider / Enhanced Serial Port / Errored Second P-bit |
|
ESPRIT
| European Strategic Project for Research on Information Technology |
|
ESRC
| Economic and Social Research Council |
|
ESRI
| Environmental Systems Research Institute |
|
ESRIN
| European Space Research Institute |
|
ESS
| Electronic Switching System |
|
ESSX
| Electronic Switching System Exchange |
|
ESU
| Element Supervisor Unit |
|
ESUS
| Enhanced Single Unix Specification (sometimes as ESUS2) |
|
ESVN
| Executive Secure Voice Network |
|
ET
| Exchange Termination |
|
ET&Q
| Engineering Technology and Quality |
|
ETAS
| Emergency Technical Assistance |
|
ETB
| End of Transmission Block (ASCII) |
|
ETC
| Electronic Toll Collection / Evil Type Coercion |
|
ETCO
| European Telecommunications Consultancy Organization |
|
ETCOM
| European Testing for Certification of Office and Manufacturing (equipment) |
|
ETE
| End-To-End |
|
ETF
| Electronic Toll Fraud |
|
ETG
| EWOS Technical Guide |
|
ETIN
| Electronic Transmitter Identification Number |
|
ETIS
| Electronic Telephone Inquiry System |
|
ETISALAT
| Emirates Telecoms Incompetent Slow And Lousy And Thieves / Everyday Testing Intelligence So Always Late At Transmission |
|
ETL
| Electronic Testing Laboratory |
|
ETLA
| Enhanced TLA / Extended Three Letter Acronym/Abbreviation (ie more than three letters) |
|
ETN
| Electronic Tandem Network |
|
ETO
| Electronic Trading Opportunity |
|
ETR
| Early Token Release |
|
ETRI
| Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute |
|
ETRI-PEC
| Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Protocol Engineering Center |
|
ETRIPEC
| Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Protocol Engineering Center |
|
ETS
| Education Technology Service / Electronic Tandem Switching / Electronic Translation System / European Telecommunications Standard / Executable Test Suite |
|
ETSACI
| Electronic Tandem Switching Administration Channel Interface |
|
ETSDU
| Expedited Transport Service Data Unit |
|
ETSI
| European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
|
ETSSP
| Electronic Tandem Switching Status Panel |
|
ETTM
| Electronic Toll and Traffic Management / Electronic Toll and Transaction Monitor |
|
ETX
| End of TeXt (ASCII) |
|
EU
| End User / European Union |
|
EUC
| Extended UNIX Code |
|
EUI
| End User Interface |
|
EULA
| End User License(ing) Agreement |
|
EUNET
| European UNIX Network |
|
EUPOT
| End User-Point of Termination |
|
EuroCAIRN
| European Co-operation for Academic and Industrial Research Ntworking |
|
EURO-ISDN
| European wide ISDN service |
|
EUROSINET
| European Open System Interconnect Network |
|
EUSR
| End User |
|
EUTELSAT
| European Telecommunications Satellite |
|
EUUG
| European UNIX Users Group |
|
EV
| Extreme Value |
|
EV86
| Enhanced Virtual 8086 |
|
EVE
| European Videoconferencing Equipment / Extreme Value Engineering |
|
EVGA
| Expanded Video Graphics Array |
|
EW
| Electronic Warfare |
|
EWHCI
| East-West Human-Computer Interaction (conference) |
|
EWICS
| European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems |
|
EWOS
| European Workshop on Open Systems |
|
EX
| Expedited |
|
EXCA
| Exchangeable Card Architecture (usually as ExCA) |
|
EXCOM
| Executive Committee |
|
EXP
| (or XP)Experience (Common MUD term) |
|
EZINE
| Electronic Magazine |
|
E-ZINE
| Electronic Magazine |