< Latin -ēa, -aea, -ea, feminine singular and neuter plural of -ēus, -aeus, -eus; see -ean
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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 catalyzed reaction mechanism involves a lower energy transition state than the uncatalyzed reaction, resulting in a lower activation energy, Ea, and a correspondingly greater rate constant.
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
Ea was even easier to deal with; his home was in the deep, and his rule was accordingly confined to the waters and the sea.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Cr. 8vo, cl., 3s. 6d. ea.; post 8vo, 2s. ea.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Besant, Walter, Sir
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
"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)
Cr. 8vo, 6s. ea.; post 8vo, bds 2s.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Besant, Walter, Sir
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