EP


abbreviation
  1. extended play:

    • a phonograph record that is typically played at 45 rpm and contains more tracks than a single, but fewer tracks than an LP.

    • a short or half-length music album in any format, typically comprised of four to seven songs: called EP as an evolution of the traditional extended-play record, albums in other formats are not known by the underlying expanded form, and identified only by the abbreviation.

Origin of EP

1
First recorded in 1950–55 for def. 2a

Other definitions for ep- (2 of 3)

ep-

  1. variant of epi- before a vowel or h: epaxial.

Other definitions for Ep. (3 of 3)

Ep.

abbreviation
  1. Epistle.

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How to use EP in a sentence

  • The direction EP gives the azimuth of the wave-path, or its direction along the surface of the earth.

  • The epiblast (EP) now consists of a very marked layer of columnar cells.

  • Annas laughed when I said that “take up the mat” sounded in the South like “teek EP the met.”

    Out in the Forty-Five | Emily Sarah Holt
  • After much talking, they decided to send for EP-i-men´i-des, and to ask him to purify the city.

    The Story of the Greeks | H. A. Guerber
  • Of a truth there remained the families of the lords and barons and great citizens descended from the Lombards, EP.

    Villani's Chronicle | Giovanni Villani

British Dictionary definitions for ep (1 of 4)

ep

/ (ɛp) /


abbreviation for
  1. episode

British Dictionary definitions for EP (2 of 4)

EP

noun
  1. an extended-play single, one of the formats in which music is sold, usually comprising four or five tracks

abbreviation for
  1. Eastern (Cape) Province

British Dictionary definitions for ep- (3 of 4)

ep-

prefix
  1. variant of epi- epexegesis

British Dictionary definitions for Ep. (4 of 4)

Ep.

abbreviation for
  1. Epistle

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