Ea
noun
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
Ea
1 American
[ey-ah]
/ ˈeɪ ɑ /
noun
-ea
2
American
ea.
3
American
abbreviation
ea.
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of -ea
< Latin -ēa, -aea, -ea, feminine singular and neuter plural of -ēus, -aeus, -eus; see -ean
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Lan was an early adopter, diversifying his crop two decades ago and now boasting 400 durian trees in Ea Knuec commune, part of Dak Lak province.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Chinese ports don't have enough shipping containers because they haven't returned from the US, according to Alvia Ea, chief executive of Singapore's largest container haulage platform, Haulio.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2021
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
Where the religions of the Semite and the Sumerian met and combined, the Sumerian spirits who had emerged above the rest like Ea of Eridu or El-lil of Nipur, were assimilated to the Semitic Baalim.
From A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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 William Bedwell
Cr. 8vo, cl., 3s. 6d. ea.; post 8vo, 2s. ea.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant
Cr. 8vo, 6s. ea.; post 8vo, bds 2s.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant
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 William Bedwell
"And then, '2 ea. silk net as per patts herewith': ea., eh?"
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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