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  • Ea
    Ea
    noun
    the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
  • -ea
    -ea
    a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin.
  • ea.
    ea.
    abbreviation
    each.

Ea

1 American  
[ey-ah] / ˈeɪ ɑ /

noun

  1. the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.


-ea 2 American  
  1. a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin.

    cornea.


ea. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. each.


ea. British  

abbreviation

  1. each

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of -ea

< Latin -ēa, -aea, -ea, feminine singular and neuter plural of -ēus, -aeus, -eus; see -ean

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Alvin Ea, chief executive of Singapore's largest container haulage platform, Haulio, believes that the industry has become a lot more resilient, by looking at options other than China.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2022

The unstable transition state can then subsequently decay to yield stable products, C + D. The diagram depicts the reaction's activation energy, Ea, as the energy difference between the reactants and the transition state.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

The two novellas follow Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of Protector Sanao who are trying to find their place in a fantastic, steampunk-styled world known as Ea.

From The Verge Sep. 1, 2017

The movie explores this notion by sending Ea on her own world-saving mission, which will require her to track down six willing apostles of her own.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2016

The name of this enemy was Ea, a great red turtle, who crawled out and asked where he was going.

From Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian by Westervelt, W. D. (William Drake)

So in the examples aforesaid, ea. and ei. are the shankes of the superficiary angle e; And so are the three surfaces aoi. ieo. and aeo. the shankes of the said angle o.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

Therefore now again the multiplied proportions are thus: ue, ea, ue, ea. iy, yu, en, ue; by the 32. e.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

Cr. 8vo, 6s. ea.; post 8vo, bds 2s.

From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Besant, Walter, Sir

Cr. 8vo, cl., 3s. 6d. ea.; post 8vo, 2s. ea.

From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Besant, Walter, Sir

"And then, '2 ea. silk net as per patts herewith': ea., eh?"

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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