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• e
  e

  abbreviation

  electron.
• E
  E

  noun

  the fifth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
• e-
  e-

  variant of ex- occurring in words of Latin origin before consonants other than c, f, p, q, s, and t: .
• e.
  e.

  abbreviation

  eldest.
• E.
  E.

  abbreviation

  Earl.
• E-
  E-

  prefix

  used with numbers indicating a standardized system within the European Union, as of recognized food additives or standard pack sizes See also E number

e

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. electron.

2. Physics. elementary charge.

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e ² American  

Symbol.

1. Mathematics. a transcendental constant equal to 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms; the limit of the expression (1+1/n ) n as n approaches infinity.

2. Logic. universal negative.

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E ³ American  

[ee] / i /

Or e

noun

• E's,
  plural
• Es,
  plural
• e's,
  plural
• es
  plural

1. the fifth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.

2. any spoken sound represented by the letter E or e, as in met, meet, mere, etc.

3. something having the shape of an E .

4. a written or printed representation of the letter E or e.

5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter E or e.

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E ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. east.

2. eastern.

3. English.

4. excellent.

5. Expressway.

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E ⁵ American  

Symbol.

1. the fifth in order or in a series.

2. (sometimes lowercase) (in some grading systems) a grade or mark, as in school or college, indicating the quality of a student's work is in need of improvement in order to be passing.

3. Music.

   1. the third tone in the scale of C major or the fifth tone in the relative minor scale, A minor.

   2. a string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.

   3. a written or printed note representing this tone.

   4. (in the fixed system of solmization) the third tone of the scale of C major, called mi.

   5. the tonality having E as the tonic note.

4. (sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 250.

5. Physics, Electricity.

   1. electric field

   2. electric field strength.

6. Physics. energy.

7. Biochemistry. glutamic acid.

8. Logic. universal negative.

9. a proportional shoe width size narrower than EE and wider than D.

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e- ⁶ American  

1. variant of ex- occurring in words of Latin origin before consonants other than c, f, p, q, s, and t: .

   emit.

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e- ⁷ American  

Sometimes E-

1. electric.

   e-bike.

2. electronic.

   e-book;

   e-cigarette.

3. on the internet; online.

   e-content;

   e-commerce.

4. involving electronic data transfer, especially over the internet.

   e-banking.

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e. ⁸ American  

abbreviation

1. eldest.

2. Football. end.

3. engineer.

4. engineering.

5. entrance.

6. Baseball. error; errors.

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E. ⁹ American  

abbreviation

1. Earl.

2. Earth.

3. east.

4. Easter.

5. eastern.

6. engineer.

7. engineering.

8. English.

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e- ¹ British  

prefix

1. electronic, indicating the involvement of the internet

   e-business

   e-money

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E- ² British  

prefix

1. used with numbers indicating a standardized system within the European Union, as of recognized food additives or standard pack sizes See also E number

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e ³ British  

symbol

1. maths a transcendental number, fundamental to mathematics, that is the limit of (1 + 1 /n ) n as n increases to infinity: used as the base of natural logarithms. Approximate value: 2.718 282…; relation to π: e ^πi = –1, where i = √–1

2. electron

3. chess See algebraic notation

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E ⁴ British  

symbol

1. earth

2. East

3. English

4. Egypt(ian)

5. exa-

6. music

   1. a note having a frequency of 329.63 hertz ( E above middle C ) or this value multiplied or divided by any power of 2; the third note of the scale of C major

   2. a key, string, or pipe producing this note

   3. the major or minor key having this note as its tonic

7. physics

   1. energy

   2. electric field strength

   3. electromotive force

   4. Young's modulus (of elasticity)

8. logic a universal negative categorical proposition, such as no pigs can fly: often symbolized as SeP Compare A I 2 O 1

9. 1. a person without a regular income, or who is dependent on the state on a long-term basis because of unemployment, sickness, old age, etc

   2. ( as modifier ) See also occupation groupings

      E worker

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abbreviation

1. Spain (international car registration)

2. informal the drug ecstasy

E. ⁵ British  

abbreviation

1. Earl

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e- ⁶ British  

prefix

1. out

   eviscerate

   egest

2. away

   elapse

   elongate

3. outside

   evaginate

4. completely

   evaporate

5. without

   ebracteate

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e ⁷ British  

/ iː /

noun

1. the fifth letter and second vowel of the modern English alphabet

2. any of several speech sounds represented by this letter, in English as in he, bet, or below

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e Scientific  

/ ē /

1. An irrational number, with a numerical value of 2.718281828459…. It is mathematically defined as the limit of (1 + 1/n) ⁿ as n grows infinitely large. It is the base of natural logarithms and has many applications in mathematics, especially in expressions involving exponential growth and decay.

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e- Cultural  

1. A prefix that stands for “electronic” and refers to information technologies, business, and almost anything connected to or transmitted over the Internet. Some examples of its use include e-business, e-commerce, e-book, and e-mail.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• E's
  plural
• Es
  plural
• e's
  plural
• es
  plural

Etymology

Origin of e-

First recorded in 1985–90; shortening of electronic ( def. )

Example Sentences

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David is the frontman of the Italian rock band Måneskin, which formed in Rome in 2016 and won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2021 with their song “Zitti e Buoni.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The cheese clings to the warm crackers, the pepper blooms in the fat and the whole thing eats like the bar snack version of cacio e pepe.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

The notion that the nation-state is outdated, and could therefore be replaced with blockchain technology, is one of the reasons h e decided to run to become Liberland's prime minister.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

The new findings, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research -- Solid Earth, were developed in collaboration with Anna Rosa Corsaro of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia in Catania.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

And we ended it this way: “Sila-go-tsoi do chah-lakai Ya-ansh-go das dez e e Washindon be Akalh-bi Kosi la Hozo-g-kay-ha-tehn. ”

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

But only moments after the game's traitors were selected, a huge curveball was thrown when Richard E Grant did something no one has done on the show before.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Can Richard E Grant hold his nerve in this episode?

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Then, in the summer of 1948, one of Kendall’s colleagues asked whether Compound E might be tried on a 29-year-old patient with severe rheumatoid arthritis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

It is located between Concourses E and F.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Only seven letter names are used to name notes: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. The eighth note would, of course, be the next A, beginning the next octave.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

So, for instance, the prefix er- denotes an external body part, whereas e- denotes an internal one.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2020

Executives hope it will prove to be a not-so-secret weapon against competitors Alibaba and Amazon, which are also racing to develop the next generation of e- commerce super machines.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2018

Meanwhile, e- has taken over as the prefix for those things in the digital world which are less malign - depending, that is, on your feelings about email.

From BBC ● May 19, 2017

RADDATZ: And, Secretary Clinton, I do want to follow up on e- mails.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2016

“It plays DVDs,” he said, “and if I had an e- mail account, I could check it on this, too.”

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

"We're looking for two different types of bacteria, e. coli and intestinal enterococci," says Jonathan Porter, a microbiologist at the Environment Agency.

From BBC ● May 12, 2024

The diagnosis was based on established assessments that included e. g. memory and language tasks.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024

And a lot of people, not just the Gilbreths, were very worried that the “best women” i. e. highly educated women were not reproducing.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

"Kangaroo meat is known to be contaminated on occasion with Salmonella spp, high levels of e. coli, Toxoplasmosis, and Listeria, and Coxiella," Ben-Ami told Salon by email.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2020

I did call Mary Elizabeth, and I told her that I’d been listening to the record every night and reading the e. e. cummings book.

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky

Renée Elise Goldsberry plays Nichole E. Ferebee, an opposing counsel with a romantic past with Michael, which naturally portends a romantic present, or future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

In March 2020, as dining rooms shut down, Chuck E. Cheese launched Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings, a delivery-only brand operating out of its existing kitchens.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The band kicked off with a blues number called “Got My Mojo Working,” then it was Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me” followed by Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Fellow big screen charmer Richard E. Grant, 69, who starred in films such as Withnail and I, may also leave some of the less well-known celebrities star-struck at first, as might American-British supermodel/actress Jerry Hall.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

For a while, I think about just sleeping here, like the kids in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

The agreements cover roughly 800 workers at the InterContinental, Hotel Indigo and E- Central in downtown L.A. — and the Sheraton Gateway LAX.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

"We had narrowed down the selections to a bunch of E- names, but we couldn't ultimately decide," says Conley, who lives in New York.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2014

Suppose the null hypothesis, H0, is: the sample does not contain E- coli.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013

The ballroom-dance competition reality show will have glitter, spandex, spray tans and Drama with a capital D as the show’s professional dancers whip a crop of E- and F- List stars into semi-professional samba dancers.

From Time ● May 16, 2013

Electronic mail, E- Mail that has saved taxpayers millions, will be unavailable for communications until October at a minimum.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

Heliodoro Moreno, E’s attorney, said the California Attorney General’s Office confirmed to him in February that it was investigating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

As visitors enter and lie down, these mobiles spin slowly, catching light and casting morphing shadows of cursive E’s and wishbones.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

Seetoo told The Times on Tuesday that she believes the “three E’s, and that is enforcement, education and engineering,” are needed to make the highway safe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

It said that with seven E’s whose sum must equal 2, E = 2.

From Scientific American ● May 25, 2023

He looked down at Katherine’s list, which was full of JB’s and E’s.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

About 60% of the U.S. population report a preference for introversion, according to Myers-Briggs Co., the company known for a personality-assessment test that begins by separating the Is from the Es.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

On the back the slogan “Los Angeles Is For Everyone /Los Angeles Es Para Todos” was repeated six times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025

Now we’re putting the song “Él No Es Tuyo” together, which comes out next month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

The first triple E outbreak on record occurred in Massachusetts in the 1830s in horses — the reason one of the three Es stands for “equine.”

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024

“Double Es as well, and no silent E at the end.”

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

My mother wound up spelling it with two e’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Morgan Stanley highlighted Ford Energy as a key driver for Model e’s profitability, potentially boosting investor interest.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

They need three rules just to handle the e’s in eleven.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2023

“Make the bracelet you really want to make first before you run out of letters. As you run out of letters, make lists of songs that don’t have e’s in them,” Ragland advised.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

The note was written in a masculine, rather nineteenth-century hand, with Greek e’s.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Ambient audio in Walker’s footage captures someone saying: “Este es el acceso de colaboradores.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Museveni studied in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the 1960s when the university acted as a kind of revolutionary finishing school for anti-colonialists.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

In recent years, the company acquired terminals in Haifa, Israel; Tanzania’s Port of Dar es Salaam; Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo; and a coal-export hub in North Queensland, Australia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Simba have struggled at the national stadium in Dar es Salaam, drawing both qualifiers there, and the Group D loss is an early setback.

From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025

Justin laced up his sneakers and boarded the train, preparing for his run home. es walked through his new neighborhood, the fourth he could remember living in so far in his short life.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore