- employment (economics)
Abundance and Unemployment: Our Future: …significant and rapid loss of jobs, from truck driver to anesthesiologist. Don’t get me wrong: it is not the magnitude of this change that worries me. I believe that people are continually losing their jobs to increasing technology and ultimately “upskilling” themselves (in partnership with technology) to become even better…
- Employment Act (United States [1946])
government economic policy: Stabilization theory: …the United States in the Employment Act of 1946, which stated: “The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to . . . promote maximum employment, production and purchasing power.” The Employment Act was less specific as to policy than the British…
- employment agency
employment agency, an organization to help workers find employment and employers find workers. Employment agencies may be either privately owned or publicly provided or managed. Their services are available to the unemployed, to those who seek different or better jobs, and to employers. A private
- Employment Contracts Act (New Zealand [1991])
New Zealand: Labour and taxation: …after the passage of the Employment Contracts Act (1991), which ended compulsory union membership, the number of union members fell dramatically.
- Employment Division v. Smith (law case)
Antonin Scalia: Judicial philosophy: …ruling for the majority in Employment Division v. Smith (1990), which reduced the level of scrutiny that courts needed to apply in considering the validity of government restrictions on the free exercise of religion.
- Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (law case)
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.: Dissenting opinions: In Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990), however, the court held that the balancing test must be abandoned because it “would create an extraordinary right to ignore generally applicable laws that are not supported by ‘compelling governmental interest’ on the basis…
- Employment in Natural Philosophy of Metaphysics Combined with Geometry, of Which Sample I Contains the Physical Monadology, The (dissertation by Kant)
Immanuel Kant: Tutor and Privatdozent: Continet Monadologiam Physicam (1756; The Employment in Natural Philosophy of Metaphysics Combined with Geometry, of Which Sample I Contains the Physical Monadology)—also known as the Monodologia Physica—contrasted the Newtonian methods of thinking with those employed in the philosophy then prevailing in German universities. This was the philosophy of Gottfried…
- employment injury insurance
workers’ compensation, social welfare program through which employers bear some of the cost of their employees’ work-related injuries and occupational diseases. Workers’ compensation was first introduced in Germany in 1884, and by the middle of the 20th century most countries in the world had some
- employment tax (taxation)
payroll tax, levy imposed on wages and salaries. In contrast to income taxes, payroll taxes do not include income from capital sources such as dividends and interest. Taxes on payrolls are seldom used as a source of general revenues, although in some developing countries the income tax base may
- employment, full (economics)
government economic policy: Stabilization theory: …system does not automatically generate full employment and stable prices and that governments should pursue deliberate stabilization policies. There has been much controversy among economists over the substance and meaning of Keynes’s theoretical contribution. Essentially, he argued that high levels of unemployment might persist indefinitely unless governments took monetary and…
- Empoasca fabae (insect)
leafhopper: The potato leafhopper (Empoasca fabae) is a destructive potato pest that causes that plant’s leaves to turn brown and curl; the insect plugs the plant’s xylem and phloem vessels, thus interfering with the transportation of food products. Adult potato leafhoppers are green with white spots on…
- Empoasca maligna (insect)
leafhopper: The apple leafhopper (Empoasca maligna) causes apple foliage to pale and become specked with white spots. The adult insects are greenish white, and they are host specific for either apple or rose. There is one generation per year.
- Empoli (Italy)
Empoli, town, Toscana (Tuscany) regione, north-central Italy, on the lower Arno River. During the medieval Florentine wars, Empoli was the scene of the Ghibelline congress of 1260, where Farinata degli Uberti successfully opposed the destruction of defeated Florence, an episode referred to in
- Emporia (Kansas, United States)
Emporia, city, seat (1860) of Lyon county, east-central Kansas, U.S. It lies between the Cottonwood and Neosho rivers. Established in 1857 by a town company whose charter prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol within the town site, it was named after a legendary ancient city in North Africa
- Emporia Gazette, The (newspaper)
Emporia: The Emporia Gazette became probably the best-known and respected “small-town” newspaper in the United States under the editorship of William Allen White, who bought it in 1895. The William Allen White House is a state historic site. The city is now the trading and shipping…
- Emporia Kansas State College (university, Emporia, Kansas, United States)
Emporia State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Emporia, Kansas, U.S. It consists of the schools of Business and of Library and Information Management, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Teachers College. In addition to undergraduate studies, the
- Emporia State University (university, Emporia, Kansas, United States)
Emporia State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Emporia, Kansas, U.S. It consists of the schools of Business and of Library and Information Management, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Teachers College. In addition to undergraduate studies, the
- Emporiae (ancient city, Spain)
Phocaea: …as Massilia (Marseille, France) and Emporion (Ampurias in northeastern Spain). When Phocaea was besieged by the Persians about 545 bce, most of the citizens chose emigration rather than submission. In 190 bce, allied with the Seleucids against Rome and Pergamum, the Phocaeans so savagely repelled the Roman forces that the…
- Emporion (ancient city, Spain)
Phocaea: …as Massilia (Marseille, France) and Emporion (Ampurias in northeastern Spain). When Phocaea was besieged by the Persians about 545 bce, most of the citizens chose emigration rather than submission. In 190 bce, allied with the Seleucids against Rome and Pergamum, the Phocaeans so savagely repelled the Roman forces that the…
- Empower America (American political group)
Steve Forbes: …of free-market economics, he founded Empower America, a group advocating so-called supply-side policies, including low taxes and deregulation, as the best means of stimulating growth.
- Empresa Cubana de Aviación (Cuban company)
Cuba: Transportation and telecommunications: The Cuban Aviation Enterprise (Empresa Cubana de Aviación), or Cubana, is the state-run airline. International airports operate at Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Camagüey, and Varadero, and domestic airports serve Guantánamo, Holguín, Las Tunas, La Colonia (in Pinar del Río), Nueva Gerona, and several other locations.
- Empresa de Viação Aérea Rio Grandense (Brazilian airline)
Varig, Brazilian airline founded on May 7, 1927, with the assistance of a Berlin trading concern, Kondor Syndicat, which had begun flights in the state of Rio Grande do Sul the previous January. Thereafter, Varig opened several more intrastate routes. Major expansion did not begin until 1953,
- Empresa Nacional de Diamantes de Angola (Angolan company)
Angola: Resources and power: The National Diamond Enterprise of Angola, a parastatal company, is responsible for approving diamond concessions, and it also licenses buyers. In 1992–94 most Angolan diamonds on the market were mined and smuggled from regions controlled by UNITA. The Angolan government gained control of this area in…
- Empresa Nacional de Electricidad SA (Spanish company)
Endesa, Spanish energy company that is one of the largest private conglomerates in the world. Headquarters are in Madrid. Endesa’s activities are aimed at generating, transporting, distributing, and selling electrical energy and related services. The company was founded by the Spanish government in
- empress (title)
emperor: …female rulers were always called empress; both males and females held both titles, i.e., tsar (or tsaritsa) and imperator (or imperatritsa).
- Empress Dowager (empress dowager of China)
Cixi was the consort of the Xianfeng emperor (reigned 1850–61), mother of the Tongzhi emperor (reigned 1861–75), adoptive mother of the Guangxu emperor (reigned 1875–1908), and a towering presence over the Chinese empire for almost half a century. By maintaining authority over the Manchu imperial
- Empress Frederick (wife of Frederick III of Prussia)
Victoria was the consort of the emperor Frederick III of Germany and the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Great Britain. Well-educated and multilingual from childhood (spent largely at Windsor and Buckingham Palace), Victoria remained all her life strongly devoted to England and,
- Empress José I (American drag performer and activist)
José Sarria was a Latino American drag performer and political activist who was the first openly gay person to run for public office in the United States. (He ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors—the legislative body of the city and county—in 1961). Sarria was the
- Empress of Blandings (fictional creature)
Empress of Blandings, fictional creature, a huge Berkshire sow resembling a balloon with ears and a tail, in stories and novels by P.G. Wodehouse. She is the property and pride of Lord Emsworth, and she has won three consecutive Fat Pigs silver medals at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. In the
- Empress of the Splendid Season (work by Hijuelos)
Oscar Hijuelos: Empress of the Splendid Season (1999) continues the examination of immigrant life, this time revealing the discrepancy between the characters’ rich self-images and their banal lives. In Beautiful María of My Soul; or, The True Story of María García y Cifuentes, the Lady Behind a…
- Empson, Sir Richard (English lawyer)
Sir Richard Empson was an English lawyer and minister of King Henry VII, remembered, with Edmund Dudley, for his unpopular administration of the crown revenues. Empson studied law in the Middle Temple and from 1475 held posts in Northamptonshire and then in Lancaster. From March 1486 Henry VII
- Empson, William (British critic and poet)
William Empson was an English critic and poet known for his immense influence on 20th-century literary criticism and for his rational, metaphysical poetry. Empson was educated at Winchester College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He earned degrees in mathematics and in English literature,
- emptiness (mysticism)
emptiness, in mysticism and religion, a state of “pure consciousness” in which the mind has been emptied of all particular objects and images; also, the undifferentiated reality (a world without distinctions and multiplicity) or quality of reality that the emptied mind reflects or manifests. The
- Empty Canvas, The (work by Moravia)
Alberto Moravia: La noia (1960; The Empty Canvas) is the story of a painter unable to find meaning either in love or work. Many of Moravia’s books were made into motion pictures.
- Empty Chair, The (work by Greene)
Graham Greene: The unfinished manuscript The Empty Chair, a murder mystery that Greene began writing in 1926, was discovered in 2008; serialization of it began the following year.
- Empty Glass (album by Townshend)
the Who: …Who-like rock records such as Empty Glass (1980) to The Iron Man (1989), a less-successful experiment in musical theatre that nevertheless paved the way for the triumphant delivery of Tommy to Broadway in 1993. Townshend, Daltrey, and Entwistle reunited for tours in 1989 and 1996–97. The Who was about to…
- Empty Lot (art installation by Cruzvillegas)
Abraham Cruzvillegas: Empty Lot was an installation for the inaugural Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern in London. The artist did not regard it finished until the exhibition closed on April 3, 2016. Six months earlier his team had collected earth from 36 locations across Greater London to…
- empty magnification (optics)
microscope: The theory of image formation: This latter condition is called empty magnification.
- Empty Mirror, The (film by Hershey [1996])
Joel Grey: Grey’s other films included The Empty Mirror (1996), in which he played Joseph Goebbels; Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000); Choke (2008); and tick, tick…BOOM! (2021), a musical directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
- Empty Nest (American television program)
The Golden Girls: Accolades, camp appeal, and legacy: A spin-off series, Empty Nest, debuted in 1988 and ran until 1995.
- Empty Quarter (desert, Arabia)
Rubʿ al-Khali, vast desert region in the southern Arabian Peninsula, constituting the largest portion of the Arabian Desert. It covers an area of about 250,000 square miles (650,000 square km) in a structural basin lying mainly in southeastern Saudi Arabia, with lesser portions in Yemen, Oman, and
- empty set (mathematics)
formal logic: Set theory: …same, there is only one null class, which is therefore usually called the null class (or sometimes the empty class); it is symbolized by Λ or ø. The notation x = y is used for “x is identical with y,” and ∼(x = y) is usually abbreviated as x ≠…
- empty set, axiom of the (set theory)
history of logic: Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (ZF): Axiom of elementary sets. There exists a set with no members: the null, or empty, set. For any two objects a and b, there exists a set (unit set) having as its only member a, as well as a set having as its only members…
- empyema (pathology)
empyema, accumulation of pus in a cavity of the body, usually in the pleura, which are the serous membranes covering the lungs. Empyema is the result of a microbial, usually bacterial, infection in a body cavity. Thoracic empyema may be characterized by fever, coughing, shortness of breath, and
- Emre, Yunus (Turkish poet)
Yunus Emre was a poet and mystic who exercised a powerful influence on Turkish literature. Though legend obscures the facts of his life, he is known to have been a Sufi (Islamic mystic) who sat for 40 years at the feet of his master, Tapduk Emre. Yunus Emre was well versed in mystical philosophy,
- EMRSA (bacterium)
MRSA: Mechanisms of resistance: …strains of epidemic MRSA (EMRSA), which first appeared in the early 1990s—their emergence corresponding to the dramatic increase in MRSA infections in the following years. The mechanism of MRSA resistance to glycopeptide antibiotics remains unclear. It is suspected that, in people simultaneously infected with MRSA and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE),…
- EMS
European Union: Creation of the European Economic Community: …in the establishment of the European Monetary System in 1979.
- EMS (physics)
maglev: Electromagnetic suspension (EMS) and electrodynamic suspension (EDS): Electromagnetic suspension (EMS) uses the attractive force between magnets present on the train’s sides and underside and on the guideway to levitate the train. A variation on EMS, called Transrapid, employs an electromagnet to lift the train off the guideway. The attraction from magnets present…
- Ems River (river, Germany)
Ems River, river, northwestern Germany. It rises on the south slope of the Teutoburger Forest and flows generally northwest and north through the Länder of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony to the east side of the Dollart (baylike enlargement of its estuary), immediately south of Emden. It
- Ems telegram (European history)
Ems telegram, report of an encounter between King William I of Prussia and the French ambassador; the telegram was sent from Ems (Bad Ems) in the Prussian Rhineland on July 13, 1870, to the Prussian chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. Its publication in a version edited by Bismarck so as to purposely
- Ems Ukaz (Russian history [1876])
Ukraine: Ukraine under direct imperial Russian rule: …a secret imperial decree, the Ems Ukaz, of Alexander II in 1876 and extended to the publication of belles lettres in Ukrainian, the importation of Ukrainian-language books, and public readings and stage performances in the language. The prohibition even extended to education—a major contributing factor to the low rate of…
- Emser, Hieronymus (German theologian)
Hieronymus Emser was a German theologian, lecturer, editor, and polemicist who is remembered chiefly for his long public controversy with Martin Luther at the onset of the Reformation. Emser studied humanities at the University of Tübingen and jurisprudence and theology at the University of Basel.
- Emsian Stage (geology and stratigraphy)
Emsian Stage, uppermost of the three standard worldwide divisions of Early Devonian rocks and time. Emsian time spans the interval between 407.6 million and 393.3 million years ago. The Emsian Stage was named for exposures studied in the region of the Ems River in western Germany, where it consists
- Emsland (region, Germany)
Emsland, region along the lower Ems River, in Lower Saxony Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies on both sides of the river, from the town of Lingen to the Ems estuary. Comprising a belt about 60 miles (100 km) long from south to north and 6–9 miles (10–15 km) wide, it includes three strips
- Emson, Sir Richard (English lawyer)
Sir Richard Empson was an English lawyer and minister of King Henry VII, remembered, with Edmund Dudley, for his unpopular administration of the crown revenues. Empson studied law in the Middle Temple and from 1475 held posts in Northamptonshire and then in Lancaster. From March 1486 Henry VII
- Emsworth, Clarence Threepwood, 9th earl of (fictional character)
Lord Emsworth, fictional character, the elderly absentminded ninth proprietor of Blandings Castle, Shropshire, Eng., the setting of many short stories and novels by P.G. Wodehouse—from Something Fresh (1915) to his final, unfinished Sunset at Blandings (1977). Lord Emsworth is almost invariably
- Emsworth, Lord (fictional character)
Lord Emsworth, fictional character, the elderly absentminded ninth proprietor of Blandings Castle, Shropshire, Eng., the setting of many short stories and novels by P.G. Wodehouse—from Something Fresh (1915) to his final, unfinished Sunset at Blandings (1977). Lord Emsworth is almost invariably
- Emtage, Alan (computer scientist)
search engine: History: …at McGill University in Montreal—Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Peter Deutsch—created the first search engine, Archie (short for archive). Archie did not seek out Web pages, since the World Wide Web would not exist for another year, but the names of files hosted on FTP (file transfer protocol) servers.…
- EMU (international organization)
euro: …included the creation of an economic and monetary union (EMU). The treaty called for a common unit of exchange, the euro, and set strict criteria for conversion to the euro and participation in the EMU. These requirements included annual budget deficits not exceeding 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP),…
- emu (bird)
emu, (Dromaius novaehollandiae), flightless bird of Australia that is the second largest living bird: the emu is more than 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall and may weigh more than 45 kg (100 pounds). The emu is the sole living member of the family Dromaiidae (or Dromiceiidae) of the order Casuariiformes,
- Emu Bay Settlement (Tasmania, Australia)
Burnie, city and port, northern Tasmania, Australia. Burnie is situated on Emu Bay, an inlet of Bass Strait, at the mouth of the Emu River. Established in the late 1820s by the Van Diemen’s Land Company as Emu Bay Settlement, the settlement was renamed to honour a company director, William Burnie,
- Emu War (Australian history)
Emu War, military operation to address the issue of emus, large flightless birds, damaging large amounts of crops in Western Australia. The campaign lasted from November to December 1932. Three members of the Royal Australian Artillery were assigned to cull roughly 20,000 emus using machine guns.
- emu-wren (bird)
emu-wren, any of the three species of the Australian genus Stipiturus, of the songbird family Maluridae. In these tiny birds the narrow, cocked tail consists of six wispy feathers—in quality, like the feathers of the emu. The most widespread species, the southern emu-wren (S. malachurus), is
- emulsifier (chemistry)
emulsifier, in foods, any of numerous chemical additives that encourage the suspension of one liquid in another, as in the mixture of oil and water in margarine, shortening, ice cream, and salad dressing. A number of emulsifiers are derived from algae, among them algin, carrageenan, and agar.
- emulsion (chemistry)
emulsion, in physical chemistry, mixture of two or more liquids in which one is present as droplets, of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size, distributed throughout the other. Emulsions are formed from the component liquids either spontaneously or, more often, by mechanical means, such as
- emulsion polymerization (chemistry)
chemistry of industrial polymers: Emulsion polymerization: One of the most widely used methods of manufacturing vinyl polymers, emulsion polymerization involves formation of a stable emulsion (often referred to as a latex) of monomer in water using a soap or detergent as the emulsifying agent. Free-radical initiators, dissolved in the…
- emulsion spinning (textiles)
man-made fibre: Emulsion spinning: Some nonmelting and insoluble polymers can be ground to a finely divided powder, mixed into a solution of another polymer, and solution-spun to fibres. The soluble polymer can be removed by a solvent or by burning and the residual fibre collected. Such a…
- emuna (religious philosophy)
Martin Buber: From mysticism to dialogue.: …by the Hebrew term for trust, emuna, spelling mutual confidence between God and man (I and Thou), and the other called by the Greek term for faith, pistis, spelling the belief in the factuality of crucial events in salvation history—e.g., Paul’s statements about Jesus’ life, death, and Resurrection. Judaism for…
- emydid (turtle family)
Emydidae, family of hard-shelled turtles native to both the Old and New Worlds, primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. The emydid turtles comprise more than 25 genera and 85 living species—roughly one-half of all the genera and one-third of all the species of turtles now living. With the exception
- Emydidae (turtle family)
Emydidae, family of hard-shelled turtles native to both the Old and New Worlds, primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. The emydid turtles comprise more than 25 genera and 85 living species—roughly one-half of all the genera and one-third of all the species of turtles now living. With the exception
- Emydocephalus (snake genus)
sea snake: …primitive groups (genera Aipysurus and Emydocephalus) eat only fish eggs; Hydrophis specializes in burrowing eels.
- Emydoidea blandingii (reptile)
Blanding’s turtle, (Emydoidea blandingii), freshwater turtle, family Emydidae, found in southern Canada and the north-central to northeastern United States. The upper shell (carapace) of Blanding’s turtle averages about 20 cm (8 inches) in length; it is smooth, rounded, and elongate with yellow
- Emys orbicularis (reptile)
pond turtle: …turtle (Clemmys marmorata) and the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis).
- en (Mesopotamian religion)
history of Mesopotamia: The Sumerians to the end of the Early Dynastic period: …the ruler’s special title was en. In later periods this word (etymology unknown), which is also found in divine names such as Enlil and Enki, has a predominantly religious connotation that is translated, for want of a better designation, as “en-priest, en-priestess.” En, as the ruler’s title, is encountered in…
- EN
endangered species, any species that is at risk of extinction because of a sudden rapid decrease in its population or a loss of its critical habitat. Biodiverse regions that require protection on the grounds that they host a significant number of endangered species are called hot spots. (Read E.O.
- EN (IUCN species status)
endangered species: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: …generation times, or isolated habitats) Endangered (EN), species that possess a very high risk of extinction as a result of rapid population declines of 50 to more than 70 percent over the previous 10 years (or three generations), a current population size of fewer than 250 individuals, or other factors…
- En attendant Godot (play by Beckett)
Waiting for Godot, tragicomedy in two acts by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, published in 1952 in French as En attendant Godot and first produced in 1953. Waiting for Godot was a true innovation in drama and the Theatre of the Absurd’s first theatrical success. The play consists of conversations
- En berättelse från kusten (novel by Trotzig)
Birgitta Trotzig: Her next novel, En berättelse från kusten (1961; “A Tale from the Coast”), is a legend about human suffering, set in Scania in the 15th century. Her later works include I kejsarens tid: Sagor (1975; “In the Time of the Emperor”); Berättelser (1977; “Stories”); and Dykungens dotter (1985),…
- en cabochon
cabochon cut, method of cutting gemstones with a convex, rounded surface that is polished but unfaceted. Opaque, asteriated, iridescent, opalescent, or chatoyant stones are usually cut en cabochon. The back of a normal cabochon-cut stone is flat, but it may be hollowed to lighten the colour.
- En Cuba (work by Cardenal)
Ernesto Cardenal: …essays, and En Cuba (1972; In Cuba), recollections of his visit there in 1970, constitute his prose work. Volumes of his poetry have been translated into all the major European languages.
- En dag i oktober (novel by Hoel)
Sigurd Hoel: …En dag i oktober (1931; One Day in October), in which the inhabitants of an Oslo apartment building are deeply affected by the tragic life and death of a fellow lodger. In this novel Hoel made extended use of interior monologues. Hoel was a close friend of the Austrian psychologist…
- En die wawiele rol (work by Malherbe)
Daniel François Malherbe: … (1933–37), a biblical trilogy; and En die wawiele rol (1945; “And the Wagon Wheels Roll On”), which describes the Great Trek. He served as professor of literature at the University of Bloemfontein (1922–42).
- En el restante tiempo terrenal (work by Belli)
Carlos Germán Belli: …“Songs and Other Poems”) and En el restante tiempo terrenal (1988; “In the Remaining Time on Earth”), is more reflective and metaphysical in character, though still marked by the poet’s frustrated longing for some unattainable fulfillment.
- ʿEn Gedi (Israel)
ʿEn Gedi, oasis, archaeological site, and kibbutz (communal settlement) in southeastern Israel on the west bank of the Dead Sea. Because of its spring in an otherwise totally arid country, the site has been inhabited from remote antiquity. Excavations in the 1960s and early 1970s at an adjoining
- En liberte! (film by Salvadori [2018])
Audrey Tautou: ) and En liberte! (2018; The Trouble with You), in which she played the wife of a man wrongfully imprisoned. She played a free-spirited hairdresser in The Jesus Rolls (2019), an adaptation of Les valseuses (1974; Going Places) that was a spin-off of the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski (1998).
- En Marche! (French political movement)
Emmanuel Macron: Rise to the presidency: …Macron announced the creation of En Marche! (“Forward!”), a popular movement that he characterized as a “democratic revolution” against a sclerotic political system. Echoing the third-way paradigm that had been promoted by Pres. Bill Clinton in the United States and Prime Minister Tony Blair in Britain, Macron proposed a center-left…
- en masse conveyor (mechanical device)
conveyor: En masse conveyors use skeletal or solid flights mounted at intervals on a cable or chain power driven within a closely fitting casing. Designed for bulk materials that must be enclosed to prevent leakage or explosion, the conveyors can operate in horizontal, vertical, or inclined…
- en passant (chess)
chess: Pawns: …for another peculiar option, called en passant—that is, in passing—available to a pawn when an enemy pawn on an adjoining file advances two squares on its initial move and could have been captured had it moved only one square. The first pawn can take the advancing pawn en passant, as…
- en pointe (dance)
dance criticism: The Enlightenment to Romanticism: …was developed in the 1820s—pointe work, or dancing on the tips of the toes. The exact origins are unknown, but early champions were the pioneering Romantic choreographer Felippo Taglioni and his daughter, the ballerina Marie Taglioni. The advent of pointe work was perfectly matched to the portrayal of the…
- en résille (enamelware)
en résille, in the decorative arts, technique of enamelwork in which the design is incised on rock crystal or glass paste and the incisions lined first with gold and then with opaque or translucent enamel. After low-temperature firing, the surface is filed and polished. The term résille, French for
- en résille sur verre (enamelware)
en résille, in the decorative arts, technique of enamelwork in which the design is incised on rock crystal or glass paste and the incisions lined first with gold and then with opaque or translucent enamel. After low-temperature firing, the surface is filed and polished. The term résille, French for
- En route (work by Huysmans)
Joris-Karl Huysmans: …in Huysmans’s last three novels: En route (1895), an account of Huysmans-Durtal’s religious retreat in the Trappist monastery of Notre-Dame d’Igny and his return to Roman Catholicism; La Cathédrale (1898; The Cathedral), basically a study of Nôtre-Dame de Chartres with a thin story attached; and L’Oblat (1903; The Oblate), set…
- En Sabots (work by Baillon)
André Baillon: …realistic studies of prostitution, while En Sabots (1922; “In Wooden Shoes”), the novel that first drew the attention of the French critics, is based on Baillon’s stay in the Flemish village of Westmalle. Par fil spécial (1924; “By Special Cable”) is a sardonic account of the world of journalism based…
- En Sof (Judaism)
sefirot: …10 stages of emanation from En Sof (the Infinite; the unknowable God), by which God the Creator can be discerned. Each sefira refers to an aspect of God as Creator; the rhythm by which one sefira unfolds to another was believed to represent the rhythm of creation. The mystical nature…
- Enabling Act (Germany [1933])
Enabling Act, law passed by the German Reichstag on March 23, 1933, that enabled Chancellor Adolf Hitler to assume dictatorial powers. Deputies from the Nazi Party, the German National People’s Party, and the Centre Party voted in favor of the act, which “enabled” Hitler’s government to issue
- Enakievo (Ukraine)
Yenakiyeve, city, eastern Ukraine. It lies along the Krynka River. A pig-iron concern began there in 1858 but lasted only eight years; not until the first coal mines opened in the locality in 1883 did industrialization begin. A metallurgical factory established in 1895–97 was later reconstructed.
- Enaliarctos (fossil mammal genus)
Enaliarctos, extinct genus of mammals that contains the oldest known member of Pinnipedia, the group that contains living seals, sea lions, and walruses. Enaliarctos is made up of five species, which lived from the late Oligocene Epoch (some 29 million years ago) into the Miocene Epoch (23 million
- Enaliarctos barnesi (fossil mammal)
Enaliarctos: The oldest of the five, E. barnesi and E. tedfordi, were found in rocks of the Yaquina Formation of Oregon that could be as old as 29.3 million years. A third species called E. mealsi, which is also the best-known of the group, is known from rocks in central California…
- Enaliarctos tedfordi (fossil mammal)
Enaliarctos: barnesi and E. tedfordi, were found in rocks of the Yaquina Formation of Oregon that could be as old as 29.3 million years. A third species called E. mealsi, which is also the best-known of the group, is known from rocks in central California that are approximately…
- Enaliornis (paleontology)
bird: Modern birds: …evidence of foot-propelled divers (Enaliornis) and of an early relative of the flamingos (Gallornis) are known from Lower Cretaceous deposits in Europe. Upper Cretaceous deposits have yielded, besides Hesperornis and Ichthyornis and their relatives, diving birds similar to Enaliornis, other early flamingo-like birds, and species in the same suborders…