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Ecclesall Woods Ecclesall Woods is an area of woodland in south-west Sheffield, between Abbeydale Road South and Ecclesall. It covers approximately 350 acres of mature semi-natural deciduous woodland which was previously used for timber and charcoal, and is currently managed by the city council for the benefit of wildlife and visitor access.
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway is a heritage railway in Derbyshire, with operations based at Wirksworth station. It is currently planned to extend the railway along the former Midland Railway branch line to join the main-line at Duffield.
Ecclesfield East railway station Ecclesfield East railway station was built by the South Yorkshire Railway on their line "Blackburn Valley" line between Sheffield Wicker and Barnsley. The station was intended to serve the parish of Ecclesfield, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, although it is some distance from the centre of the village.
Ecclesfield West Station Ecclesfield West Station was a railway station in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The station served the communities of Ecclesfield and Shiregreen and was situated on the Midland Railway, lying between Chapeltown and Brightside.
Ecclesia (ancient Athens) The ecclesia or ekklesia (Greek ) was the principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens. It was the popular assembly, opened to all male citizens over the age of 18 by Solon in 594 BC meaning that all classes of citizens in Athens were able to participate, even the thetes.
Ecclesia (Church) Ecclesia (or Ekklesia) in Christian theology denotes both a particular body of faithful people, and the whole body of the faithful. Latin ecclesia, from Greek ekklesia had an original meaning of "assembly, congregation, council", literally "convocation", see Ecclesia (ancient Athens).
Ecclesia (sociology of religion) An ecclesia is one of the four members of the most common sociological typology of religious groups -- the other three are the denomination, the sect and the cult. An ecclesia is a religious group which is strongly integrated with the dominant social and political culture.
Ecclesia de Eucharistia Ecclesia de Eucharistia (Latin for Church of the Eucharist) is a Papal encyclical by Pope John Paul II published on April 17 2003, the purpose of which is "to rekindle this Eucharistic 'amazement' […], in continuity with the Jubilee heritage which [he has] left to the Church in the Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte and its Marian crowning, Rosarium Virginis Mariae"Introduction, 6. and which he hoped "will effectively help to banish the dark clouds of unacceptable doctrine and practice, so that the Eucharist will continue to shine forth in all its radiant mystery.
Ecclesia Dei Ecclesia Dei is the motu proprio of 2 July 1988 that Pope John Paul II issued in reaction to the consecration, in spite of an express prohibition by the Holy See, of four bishops by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop AntĂ´nio de Castro Mayer in EcĂ´ne, Switzerland, at the seminary of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), an association of priests that Archbishop Lefebvre had founded in 1970 and whose members distrusted the changes then taking place in the Church.
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC), or the Gnostic Catholic Church, is the ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), an international fraternal initiatory organization devoted to promulgating the Law of Thelema. Thelema is a philosophy of life first described by François Rabelais and later revived and elaborated by Aleister Crowley, who took Thelema as the name of the philosophical, mystical and religious system which he developed based on The Book of the Law.
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica Hermetica The Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica Hermetica is a Church whose primary goal is to assist in the attainment of Gnosis. The word Gnosis comes from the Greek meaning "Knowledge," through which we may attain reintegration and regeneration of body and soul.
Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes, Qohelet in Hebrew, is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The title derives from the Greek translation of the Hebrew title: קֹהֶלֶת (variously transliterated as Qoheleth, Qohelethh, Kohelet, Koheles, Koheleth, or Coheleth).
Ecclesiastical coup The Ecclesiastical coup is the name given to the coup d'Ă©tat staged by three Bishops of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus against President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III in the period March 1972 - July 1973.
Ecclesiastical court An ecclesiastical court (also called "Court Christian") is any of certain courts having jurisdiction mainly in spiritual or religious matters. In the Middle Ages in many areas of Europe these courts had much wider powers than before the development of nation states as they were experts in interpreting Canon law the basis of which was the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian which is considered the source of the civil law legal tradition.
Ecclesiastical Commissioners Ecclesiastical Commissioners were, in England and Wales, a body corporate, whose full title is Ecclesiastical and Church Estates Commissioners for England. The commissioners were authorized to determine the distribution of revenues of the Church of England, and they made extensive changes in how revenues were distributed.
Ecclesiastical history of Braga The region around the city of Braga, in today Portugal, was an important centre for the spreading of Christendom in the Iberian Peninsula. This is reflected in the number of religious personalities associated with the region and the fact that many ecumenical councils were held in the city.
Ecclesiastical Household The Ecclesiastical Household is a part of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Reflecting the different constitutions of the Church in England and in Scotland, there are separate Ecclesiastical Households in each kingdom.
Ecclesiastical jurisdiction Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in its primary sense does not signify jurisdiction over ecclesiastics ("church leadership"), but jurisdiction exercised by church leaders over other leaders and over the laity.
Ecclesiastical Latin The term Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Church Latin) refers to the Latin language as used in documents of the Roman Catholic Church and in its Latin liturgies. It is not a distinct language or dialect, but only the Latin language used for ecclesiastical purposes, as the same language can be used also for commercial purposes, for purposes of invective, or just for fun.
Ecclesiastical polity Ecclesiastical polity is the operational and governance structure of a church or Christian denomination. It also denotes the ministerial structure of the church and the authority relationships between churches.
Ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a temporal province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian churches, especially in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches and in the Anglican Communion. In the early church, and in some modern churches, its chief city and seat is called a metropolis and its primate is called a metropolitan.
Ecclesiastical provinces of the Anglican Church of Canada The Anglican Church of Canada is divided into four ecclesiastical provinces, each under the jurisdiction of a provincial synod and a metropolitan, who is elected from among the bishops of the province. The first ecclesiastical province — Canada — was created in 1860, followed by Rupert's Land in 1875, Ontario in 1912 (carved from Canada) and British Columbia in 1914 (carved from Rupert's Land).
Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon The Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada (similar to an archdiocese in the Roman Catholic Church). It was founded in 1914 as the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia, but changed its name in 1943 when the Diocese of Yukon was incorporated from the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land.
Ecclesiastical Province of Canada The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada was founded in 1860 and is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. Despite its name, the province covers only the former territory of Lower Canada (ie.
Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario is one of the Anglican Church of Canada's four ecclesiastical provinces. It was established in 1912 out of six dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada located in the civil Province of Ontario, and the Diocese of Moosonee from the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land.
Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land The Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land was founded in 1875 and is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada (similar to an archdiocese in the Roman Catholic Church). The territory covered by the province is roughly coterminous with the western portion of the former Hudson's Bay Company concession of Rupert's Land, as well as the North-Western Territory.
Ecclesiology In Christian theology, ecclesiology is a branch of study that deals with the doctrines pertaining to the Church itself as a community or organic entity, and with the understanding of what the "church" is —ie. its role in salvation, its origin, its relationship to the historical Christ, its discipline, its destiny (see Eschatology) and its leadership.
Eccleston, Merseyside Eccleston is a civil parish and historic township within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside. The historic township of Eccleston was much larger and it extended into the modern town of St Helens Part of the township was united with Parr, Sutton and part of Windle to form the Borough of St Helens in 1868.
Ecco the Dolphin Ecco the Dolphin is the collective name given to a series of video games published by Sega which primarily take place underwater. They were originally developed for the Sega Mega Drive (known as the Sega Genesis in North America) and Sega Dreamcast video game consoles, but have since been ported to numerous systems.
Eccrine sweat glands Eccrine sweat glands are distributed over the entire body surface but are particularly abundant on the palms of hands, soles of feet, and on the forehead. These produce sweat that is composed chiefly of water with various salts.
Ecdysis Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticula in arthropods and related groups (Ecdysozoa). Since the cuticula of these animals is also the skeletal support of the body and is inelastic, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed.
Ecdysone Ecdysone is a prohormone of the major insect moulting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone, which is secreted from the prothoracic glands. Insect moulting hormones (ecdysone and its homologues) are generally called ecdysteroids.
Ecgonine Ecgonine (C9H15NO3), is an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves. It is has a close structural relation to cocaine: it is both a metabolite and a precursor, and as such, it is a controlled substance, as are all substances which can be used as precursors to ecgonine itself.
Ecgred of Lindisfarne Ecgred of Lindisfarne (died 845) was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 830 to 845. He was the founder, in 830, of a church on the site of the now ruined Jedburgh Abbey and it is thought he was also the founder of the settlement that later came to be known as Jedburgh.
Ecgric of East Anglia Ecgric was an East Anglian king who shared the kingdom with his kinsman Sigebert until the abdication of Sigebert c 634. He then ruled alone until c 636, when both were killed together in a battle defending East Anglian from a Mercian military assault.
Ecchi Ecchi (or Etchi, from the Japanese エăă ecchi) is an English word deriving from a Japanese word meaning "lewd" or "naughty" when used as an adjective, and can refer to a pervert when used as a noun or sexual intercourse when used as a verb.
Eciton burchelli Eciton burchelli is the predominant species of the genus Eciton and a type of New World army ant. It is often considered the archetypal species of the term "army ant", which has become its common name.
Eck Robertson Alexander "Eck" Robertson (November 20, 1886-February 17, 1975) was an American fiddle player. In 1922, he became the first fiddler and first country musician to be recorded when he performed 8 tracks for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York City.
Eckerd Pharmacy Eckerd Pharmacy is a drug store chain with more than 1,549 stores in more than 13 states across the Mid-Atlantic and New England portions of the United States. The store base stretches from Georgia to New York.
Eckernförde Eckernförde (Danish: Egernførde, sometimes also Egernfjord, Low German: Eckernför, sometimes also Eckernföör) is a German city in Schleswig-Holstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde at the Baltic Sea near Kiel. The population is about 23,000.
Eckernförde Bay The Eckernförde Bay (German: Eckernförder Bucht, Danish: Egernførde Fjord) is a firth in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The firth is about 16 km long and turns at the mouth, with the south bank on approximately ten km of the Bay of Kiel.
Eckert-Mauchly Award The Eckert-Mauchly award, initiated in 1979, is an award given for contributions to digital systems and computer architecture. It was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who in 1947 collaborated on the design and construction of the first large scale electronic computing machine, known as ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
Eckford of Brooklyn Eckford of Brooklyn, or simply Eckford, was an American baseball club from 1855 to 1872. When the pioneering Union Grounds opened for baseball in 1862, the Eckfords must have been the most important tenant, for they played more games than any other club that year (16) and won the "national" championship, repeating the championship in 1863.
Eckhard Pfeiffer Eckhard Pfeiffer (born August 20, 1941, Lubań, Poland) is a business executive of German ancestry, and a former CEO of Compaq. He joined Compaq from Texas Instruments, and established operations from scratch in both Europe and Asia.
Eckhart Railroad The Echart Railroad was a railroad operated by the Maryland Mining Company of Eckhart Mines, Maryland. The railroad operated from 1846 to 1870 when the Railroad was absorbed into the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad.
Eckley Miners' Village Eckley Miners' Village in eastern Pennsylvania is an anthracite coal mining patch town located near Hazleton. Since 1970, Eckley has been owned and operated as a museum by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Eckmann-Hilton argument In mathematics, the Eckmann-Hilton argument (or Eckmann-Hilton principle or Eckmann-Hilton theorem) is an argument about monoid structures on a set where one is a homomorphism for the other. Given this, the structures can be shown to coincide, and the resulting monoid demonstrated to be commutative.
Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs de France (EEdF, Guides and Scouts of France) is an interreligious and coeducational Scouting and Guiding association in France. The first interreligious Scouting groups in France were founded in 1911, and interreligious Guiding started in 1914; both movements merged in 1964 forming the EEdF.
Eclavdra In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Eclavdra is a powerful, ravishing drow priestess of Lolth. She is known for her cruelty and complex scheming, and her total lack of compassion.
Eclectic probability Many statisticians adopt an eclectic view of the debate between proponents of the frequency interpretation of probability and proponents of personal probability. These eclectics say in essence, "if it walks like a duck...
Eclectic Wicca Eclectic Wicca is a type of Wicca characterized by the use of a wide variety of sources for inspiration, and the quest to build a unique, personal religious path. The basic structure is generally Wiccan, but may vary widely among individual groups and practitioners.
Eclectica Magazine Eclectica is one of the oldest surviving online literary publications. Founded in 1996 by Chris Lott and Tom Dooley, Eclectica's extensive and growing archives features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, miscellany, travel, opinion, and reviews by hundreds of authors from around the world.
Eclecticism Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.
Eclection British folk-rock band Eclection was formed in August 1967 in London by Norwegian Georg Kajanus (then known as George Hultgreen), Australian Kerrilee Male, Canadian Michael Rosen, Australian Trevor Lucas and Brit Gerry Conway. They were given their unusual name by Joni Mitchell, a friend of Rosen's girlfriend.
Eclectus Parrot The Eclectus Parrot, Eclectus roratus is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands (Moluccas). It is unusual in the parrot family for their extreme sexual dimorphism; the males are bright green, having bright candy corn coloured upper mandibles and black lower mandibles, and blue or red tail and wing feathers.
Eclipse An eclipse (Greek verb: ekleipĂ´, "to vanish", though it derives from the prefix 'ex-', "away from", and Greek 'leipein', "to leave") is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. The term is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the shadow of Earth.
Eclipse (Autumn Tears album) After four long years of silence, Autumn Tears return with their most epic, conceptual, and fullest neoclassical piece of music they have ever offered. Lush strings, acoustic guitars, and woodwinds accompany soaring orchestral soundscapes, painting the backdrop for a staggering array of vocal performances that range from operatic and classical solos to Baltic choral passages and duets.
Eclipse (DVD) Eclipse is a new line of DVDs recently announced by the Criterion Collection. Their first set, to be released on March 27, will be of early Bergman; their second will be of Louis Malle's lesser-known documentary works.
Eclipse (horse) Eclipse (April 1 1764 - February 26, 1789) was an 18th century British thoroughbred racehorse, descendant of Godolphin Arabian and Regulus that was undefeated during its entire career. Eclipse was born during and named after the solar eclipse of April 1 1764.
Eclipse (software) Eclipse is an open source platform-independent software framework for delivering what the project calls "rich-client applications", as opposed to "thin client" browser-based applications. So far this framework has typically been used to develop Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), such as the Java IDE called Java Development Toolkit (JDT) and compiler (ECJ) that comes as part of Eclipse (and which are also used to develop Eclipse itself).
Eclipse (song) "Eclipse" is the tenthThe track number depends upon the edition of the album; some releases merge the two tracks "Speak to Me" and "Breathe," for instance. and final track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon.
Eclipse 500 The Eclipse 500 is a small, six seat business jet aircraft manufactured by Eclipse Aviation. It is the second of a new class of business jets known as the Very Light Jet (VLJ, previously called 'Microjets'), following the delivery of the first VLJ, the Cessna Citation Mustang in late 2006.
Eclipse Aviation Eclipse Aviation Corporation is an Albuquerque, New Mexico based manufacturer of the Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet (VLJ). Founded in 1998 by former Microsoft employee Vern Raburn, the company employs about 500 people with plans to double that number in 2007.
Eclipse Award The Eclipse Award is a American thoroughbred horse racing award named after the 18th century British racehorse and sire, Eclipse. The Eclipse Awards, honoring the champions of the sport, are sponsored by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers Association who select all finalists at the end of the year.
Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year The Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing. It has been awarded since 1887 to the horse, irrespective of age, whose performance during the racing year is deemed the most outstanding.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding 2-Year-Old Male Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a 2-Year Old Colt or Gelding.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse The Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Yr-Old Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually. The award originated as the "3-Yr-Old Male" champion title but in 1971 the name was changed to honor the horse Eclipse and organized as part of the various horse racing honors under the Eclipse Awards program.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey The Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey is an American thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a jockey undergoing their apprenticeship.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Female Turf Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Female Turf Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a filly, regardless of age, for their performace on grass race courses.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a Colt or Gelding, regardless of age, for their performace on grass race courses.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Female Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Female Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to the top female horse 4 years of age and older.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Male Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a stallion or gelding, 4 years old and up.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Sprint Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Sprint Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to the top horse in sprint races usually run at a distance of 6 or 7 furlongs).
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to the top horse in steeplechase racing.
Eclipse Caste The Eclipse Caste is one of five castes of the Solar Exalted. First detailed in White Wolf's Exalted (ISBN 1-56504-623-4), and later expanded upon in its own supplement Caste Book: Eclipse (ISBN 1-58846-664-7), the Eclipse Caste is filled with the diplomats, administrators, and censors of the Solar Exalted.
Eclipse Comet of 1882 The Eclipse Comet of 1882 (modern formal designation: X/1882 K1) was a comet which was discovered by observers in Egypt during the solar eclipse of 1882. Its appearance was a complete surprise, and the sighting of it during the eclipse was the only time it was seen.
Eclipse Comics Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several influential independent publishers during the 1980s and early '90s. In 1978, it published the first graphic novel for the newly-created comic book specialty store market.
Eclipse Modeling Framework Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model. From a model specification described in XMI, EMF provides tools and runtime support to produce a set of Java classes for the model, a set of adapter classes that enable viewing and command-based editing of the model, and a basic editor.
Eclipse of God A period in which God or the divine is absent from the world, the idea that the world is now in a time of darkness or evil resulting from an abandonment by God. A variation of theothanatology, or the God is dead movement, the eclipse of God is normally, though not always, understood as a historical period which might end.
Eclipse Park Eclipse Park is the name of two former baseball grounds located in Louisville, Kentucky. The first ground was home to the Louisville Colonels of the American Association from 1882 to 1891 and then the National League from 1892 to 1893 after the League absorbed the Association.
Eclipse Park (Milwaukee) Eclipse Park, also known as Milwaukee Base-Ball Grounds, is a former baseball ground located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The ground was home to the Milwaukee Grays of the National League during the 1878 season.
Eclipse Stakes The Eclipse Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 7 yards (2,018 metres) at Sandown Park in early July.
Eclipso Eclipso is a fictional character, a villain in the DC Comics Universe. He is portrayed as having been the incarnation of the Wrath of God, the Angel of Vengeance who turned evil and was replaced by the Spectre.
Ecliptic The ecliptic is the apparent path the Sun traces out along the sky — independent of Earth's rotation — in the course of the year. More accurately, it is the intersection of the celestial sphere with the ecliptic plane, which is the geometric plane containing the mean orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
Ecliptic coordinate system The ecliptic coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system that uses the ecliptic for its fundamental plane. The ecliptic is the path that the sun appears to follow across the sky over the course of a year.
Ecliptic Enterprises Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation is a space technology firm that produces the world's leading brand of onboard video and imaging systems (RocketCam systems) for accessing and experiencing space and other extreme environments.
Ecma International Ecma International is an international membership-based standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired the name Ecma International in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) changed its name to express the organization's international reach.
Ecma Office Open XML Ecma Office Open XML (also known as Office Open XML, commonly abbreviated as OOXML) is a file format specification for the storage of electronic documents such as memos, presentations, and spreadsheets. The specification was developed by Microsoft for its Microsoft Office product suite and was standardized by Ecma International as Ecma 376 in December 2006.
Ecnis ECNIS (Environmental Cancer Risk, Nutrition and Individual Susceptibility) - Network of Excellence created by 25 research institutions (~200 scientists) in Europe coordinated by the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in ĹĂłdĹş, Poland - project granted within Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP6). The ultimate goal of the ECNIS NoE is to establish an internationally competitive network of European research centres to overcome the existing fragmentation of activities and to enhance the quality and relevance of research on environment, nutrition, and cancer risk as modulated by diet and genetic disposition.
Eco commerce Eco commerce is a business, investment, and technology-development model that employs market-based solutions to balancing the world’s energy needs and environmental integrity. Through the use of green trading and green finance, eco-commerce allows for the further development of clean technologies such as wind power, solar power, biomass, and hydropower.
Eco couture Eco couture refers to the fashion movement characterized by environmentally friendly, socially conscious, high fashion clothing, shoes, and handbags. The term eco couture is derived from the fashion term haute couture (French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking"), which has come to refer to high fashion in general.
Eco ev Eco EV is a small company started in Colorado in 2007. The primary mission of the organization is to design, develop and build commuter electric vehicles that average Americans can build based on plans they can purchase.
Eco Fighters Eco Fighters, (or Ultimate Ecology in Japan) is an arcade game released by Capcom on the CPS-2 arcade system board on December 1993. The game is a horizontal shooter, where the player controls a ship with a rotating gun.
Eco League The Eco League is a six-college consortium consisting of Antioch College, Alaska Pacific University, Green Mountain College, Northland College, Prescott College and College of the Atlantic. The consortium is unique, in that each college is in a different geographic area.
Eco-anarchism Eco-anarchism argues that small eco-villages (of no more than a few hundred people) are a scale of human living preferable to civilization, and that infrastructure and political systems should be re-organized to ensure that these are created. Eco-anarchists assert that social organizations must be designed to work with natural forces, rather than against.
Eco-building cluster The Eco-building cluster or Green Building Cluster (French: Cluster Eco-construction) is the official cluster of the construction industry in Wallonia (south part of Belgium). The cluster promotes the industry to take into consideration the quality of today's and the future environment, while offering a maximum of comfort to the inhabitants.
Eco-capitalism Eco-capitalism is one of several strategies of the green movement and Green Parties. Its central idea is that capital exists in nature as "natural capital" (self-renewing productive ecosystems that have a measurable ecological yield or tangible benefit to humans) on which all wealth depends.
Eco-cement Eco-Cement is a brand name for a type of cement which incorporates reactive magnesia (sometimes called caustic calcined magnesia or magnesium oxide), another hydraulic cement such as Portland cement, and optionally pozzolans and industrial by-products, to reduce the environmental impact relative to conventional cement. Eco-Cement can include more industrial by-products as aggregate than Portland cement because it is much less alkaline, reducing the incidence of alkali-aggregate reactions which cause damage to hardened concrete.
Eco-cemetery An eco-cemetery is also known as a natural burial ground, a woodland cemetery, a memorial nature preserve, or a green burial ground. This modern burial practice has its origins in both environmental concerns and neo-pagan beliefs, offering a spiritually fulfilling alternative to the conventional burial.
Eco-efficiency The term eco-efficiency was coined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in its 1992 publication "Changing Course". It is based on the concept of creating more goods and services while using fewer resources and creating less waste and pollution.
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway is a heritage railway in Derbyshire, with operations based at Wirksworth station. It is currently planned to extend the railway along the former Midland Railway branch line to join the main-line at Duffield.
Ecclesfield East railway station Ecclesfield East railway station was built by the South Yorkshire Railway on their line "Blackburn Valley" line between Sheffield Wicker and Barnsley. The station was intended to serve the parish of Ecclesfield, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, although it is some distance from the centre of the village.
Ecclesfield West Station Ecclesfield West Station was a railway station in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The station served the communities of Ecclesfield and Shiregreen and was situated on the Midland Railway, lying between Chapeltown and Brightside.
Ecclesia (ancient Athens) The ecclesia or ekklesia (Greek ) was the principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens. It was the popular assembly, opened to all male citizens over the age of 18 by Solon in 594 BC meaning that all classes of citizens in Athens were able to participate, even the thetes.
Ecclesia (Church) Ecclesia (or Ekklesia) in Christian theology denotes both a particular body of faithful people, and the whole body of the faithful. Latin ecclesia, from Greek ekklesia had an original meaning of "assembly, congregation, council", literally "convocation", see Ecclesia (ancient Athens).
Ecclesia (sociology of religion) An ecclesia is one of the four members of the most common sociological typology of religious groups -- the other three are the denomination, the sect and the cult. An ecclesia is a religious group which is strongly integrated with the dominant social and political culture.
Ecclesia de Eucharistia Ecclesia de Eucharistia (Latin for Church of the Eucharist) is a Papal encyclical by Pope John Paul II published on April 17 2003, the purpose of which is "to rekindle this Eucharistic 'amazement' […], in continuity with the Jubilee heritage which [he has] left to the Church in the Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte and its Marian crowning, Rosarium Virginis Mariae"Introduction, 6. and which he hoped "will effectively help to banish the dark clouds of unacceptable doctrine and practice, so that the Eucharist will continue to shine forth in all its radiant mystery.
Ecclesia Dei Ecclesia Dei is the motu proprio of 2 July 1988 that Pope John Paul II issued in reaction to the consecration, in spite of an express prohibition by the Holy See, of four bishops by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop AntĂ´nio de Castro Mayer in EcĂ´ne, Switzerland, at the seminary of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), an association of priests that Archbishop Lefebvre had founded in 1970 and whose members distrusted the changes then taking place in the Church.
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC), or the Gnostic Catholic Church, is the ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), an international fraternal initiatory organization devoted to promulgating the Law of Thelema. Thelema is a philosophy of life first described by François Rabelais and later revived and elaborated by Aleister Crowley, who took Thelema as the name of the philosophical, mystical and religious system which he developed based on The Book of the Law.
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica Hermetica The Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica Hermetica is a Church whose primary goal is to assist in the attainment of Gnosis. The word Gnosis comes from the Greek meaning "Knowledge," through which we may attain reintegration and regeneration of body and soul.
Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes, Qohelet in Hebrew, is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The title derives from the Greek translation of the Hebrew title: קֹהֶלֶת (variously transliterated as Qoheleth, Qohelethh, Kohelet, Koheles, Koheleth, or Coheleth).
Ecclesiastical coup The Ecclesiastical coup is the name given to the coup d'Ă©tat staged by three Bishops of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus against President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III in the period March 1972 - July 1973.
Ecclesiastical court An ecclesiastical court (also called "Court Christian") is any of certain courts having jurisdiction mainly in spiritual or religious matters. In the Middle Ages in many areas of Europe these courts had much wider powers than before the development of nation states as they were experts in interpreting Canon law the basis of which was the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian which is considered the source of the civil law legal tradition.
Ecclesiastical Commissioners Ecclesiastical Commissioners were, in England and Wales, a body corporate, whose full title is Ecclesiastical and Church Estates Commissioners for England. The commissioners were authorized to determine the distribution of revenues of the Church of England, and they made extensive changes in how revenues were distributed.
Ecclesiastical history of Braga The region around the city of Braga, in today Portugal, was an important centre for the spreading of Christendom in the Iberian Peninsula. This is reflected in the number of religious personalities associated with the region and the fact that many ecumenical councils were held in the city.
Ecclesiastical Household The Ecclesiastical Household is a part of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Reflecting the different constitutions of the Church in England and in Scotland, there are separate Ecclesiastical Households in each kingdom.
Ecclesiastical jurisdiction Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in its primary sense does not signify jurisdiction over ecclesiastics ("church leadership"), but jurisdiction exercised by church leaders over other leaders and over the laity.
Ecclesiastical Latin The term Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Church Latin) refers to the Latin language as used in documents of the Roman Catholic Church and in its Latin liturgies. It is not a distinct language or dialect, but only the Latin language used for ecclesiastical purposes, as the same language can be used also for commercial purposes, for purposes of invective, or just for fun.
Ecclesiastical polity Ecclesiastical polity is the operational and governance structure of a church or Christian denomination. It also denotes the ministerial structure of the church and the authority relationships between churches.
Ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a temporal province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian churches, especially in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches and in the Anglican Communion. In the early church, and in some modern churches, its chief city and seat is called a metropolis and its primate is called a metropolitan.
Ecclesiastical provinces of the Anglican Church of Canada The Anglican Church of Canada is divided into four ecclesiastical provinces, each under the jurisdiction of a provincial synod and a metropolitan, who is elected from among the bishops of the province. The first ecclesiastical province — Canada — was created in 1860, followed by Rupert's Land in 1875, Ontario in 1912 (carved from Canada) and British Columbia in 1914 (carved from Rupert's Land).
Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon The Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada (similar to an archdiocese in the Roman Catholic Church). It was founded in 1914 as the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia, but changed its name in 1943 when the Diocese of Yukon was incorporated from the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land.
Ecclesiastical Province of Canada The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada was founded in 1860 and is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. Despite its name, the province covers only the former territory of Lower Canada (ie.
Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario is one of the Anglican Church of Canada's four ecclesiastical provinces. It was established in 1912 out of six dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada located in the civil Province of Ontario, and the Diocese of Moosonee from the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land.
Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land The Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land was founded in 1875 and is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada (similar to an archdiocese in the Roman Catholic Church). The territory covered by the province is roughly coterminous with the western portion of the former Hudson's Bay Company concession of Rupert's Land, as well as the North-Western Territory.
Ecclesiology In Christian theology, ecclesiology is a branch of study that deals with the doctrines pertaining to the Church itself as a community or organic entity, and with the understanding of what the "church" is —ie. its role in salvation, its origin, its relationship to the historical Christ, its discipline, its destiny (see Eschatology) and its leadership.
Eccleston, Merseyside Eccleston is a civil parish and historic township within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside. The historic township of Eccleston was much larger and it extended into the modern town of St Helens Part of the township was united with Parr, Sutton and part of Windle to form the Borough of St Helens in 1868.
Ecco the Dolphin Ecco the Dolphin is the collective name given to a series of video games published by Sega which primarily take place underwater. They were originally developed for the Sega Mega Drive (known as the Sega Genesis in North America) and Sega Dreamcast video game consoles, but have since been ported to numerous systems.
Eccrine sweat glands Eccrine sweat glands are distributed over the entire body surface but are particularly abundant on the palms of hands, soles of feet, and on the forehead. These produce sweat that is composed chiefly of water with various salts.
Ecdysis Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticula in arthropods and related groups (Ecdysozoa). Since the cuticula of these animals is also the skeletal support of the body and is inelastic, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed.
Ecdysone Ecdysone is a prohormone of the major insect moulting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone, which is secreted from the prothoracic glands. Insect moulting hormones (ecdysone and its homologues) are generally called ecdysteroids.
Ecgonine Ecgonine (C9H15NO3), is an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves. It is has a close structural relation to cocaine: it is both a metabolite and a precursor, and as such, it is a controlled substance, as are all substances which can be used as precursors to ecgonine itself.
Ecgred of Lindisfarne Ecgred of Lindisfarne (died 845) was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 830 to 845. He was the founder, in 830, of a church on the site of the now ruined Jedburgh Abbey and it is thought he was also the founder of the settlement that later came to be known as Jedburgh.
Ecgric of East Anglia Ecgric was an East Anglian king who shared the kingdom with his kinsman Sigebert until the abdication of Sigebert c 634. He then ruled alone until c 636, when both were killed together in a battle defending East Anglian from a Mercian military assault.
Ecchi Ecchi (or Etchi, from the Japanese エăă ecchi) is an English word deriving from a Japanese word meaning "lewd" or "naughty" when used as an adjective, and can refer to a pervert when used as a noun or sexual intercourse when used as a verb.
Eciton burchelli Eciton burchelli is the predominant species of the genus Eciton and a type of New World army ant. It is often considered the archetypal species of the term "army ant", which has become its common name.
Eck Robertson Alexander "Eck" Robertson (November 20, 1886-February 17, 1975) was an American fiddle player. In 1922, he became the first fiddler and first country musician to be recorded when he performed 8 tracks for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York City.
Eckerd Pharmacy Eckerd Pharmacy is a drug store chain with more than 1,549 stores in more than 13 states across the Mid-Atlantic and New England portions of the United States. The store base stretches from Georgia to New York.
Eckernförde Eckernförde (Danish: Egernførde, sometimes also Egernfjord, Low German: Eckernför, sometimes also Eckernföör) is a German city in Schleswig-Holstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde at the Baltic Sea near Kiel. The population is about 23,000.
Eckernförde Bay The Eckernförde Bay (German: Eckernförder Bucht, Danish: Egernførde Fjord) is a firth in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The firth is about 16 km long and turns at the mouth, with the south bank on approximately ten km of the Bay of Kiel.
Eckert-Mauchly Award The Eckert-Mauchly award, initiated in 1979, is an award given for contributions to digital systems and computer architecture. It was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who in 1947 collaborated on the design and construction of the first large scale electronic computing machine, known as ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
Eckford of Brooklyn Eckford of Brooklyn, or simply Eckford, was an American baseball club from 1855 to 1872. When the pioneering Union Grounds opened for baseball in 1862, the Eckfords must have been the most important tenant, for they played more games than any other club that year (16) and won the "national" championship, repeating the championship in 1863.
Eckhard Pfeiffer Eckhard Pfeiffer (born August 20, 1941, Lubań, Poland) is a business executive of German ancestry, and a former CEO of Compaq. He joined Compaq from Texas Instruments, and established operations from scratch in both Europe and Asia.
Eckhart Railroad The Echart Railroad was a railroad operated by the Maryland Mining Company of Eckhart Mines, Maryland. The railroad operated from 1846 to 1870 when the Railroad was absorbed into the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad.
Eckley Miners' Village Eckley Miners' Village in eastern Pennsylvania is an anthracite coal mining patch town located near Hazleton. Since 1970, Eckley has been owned and operated as a museum by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Eckmann-Hilton argument In mathematics, the Eckmann-Hilton argument (or Eckmann-Hilton principle or Eckmann-Hilton theorem) is an argument about monoid structures on a set where one is a homomorphism for the other. Given this, the structures can be shown to coincide, and the resulting monoid demonstrated to be commutative.
Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs de France (EEdF, Guides and Scouts of France) is an interreligious and coeducational Scouting and Guiding association in France. The first interreligious Scouting groups in France were founded in 1911, and interreligious Guiding started in 1914; both movements merged in 1964 forming the EEdF.
Eclavdra In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Eclavdra is a powerful, ravishing drow priestess of Lolth. She is known for her cruelty and complex scheming, and her total lack of compassion.
Eclectic probability Many statisticians adopt an eclectic view of the debate between proponents of the frequency interpretation of probability and proponents of personal probability. These eclectics say in essence, "if it walks like a duck...
Eclectic Wicca Eclectic Wicca is a type of Wicca characterized by the use of a wide variety of sources for inspiration, and the quest to build a unique, personal religious path. The basic structure is generally Wiccan, but may vary widely among individual groups and practitioners.
Eclectica Magazine Eclectica is one of the oldest surviving online literary publications. Founded in 1996 by Chris Lott and Tom Dooley, Eclectica's extensive and growing archives features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, miscellany, travel, opinion, and reviews by hundreds of authors from around the world.
Eclecticism Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.
Eclection British folk-rock band Eclection was formed in August 1967 in London by Norwegian Georg Kajanus (then known as George Hultgreen), Australian Kerrilee Male, Canadian Michael Rosen, Australian Trevor Lucas and Brit Gerry Conway. They were given their unusual name by Joni Mitchell, a friend of Rosen's girlfriend.
Eclectus Parrot The Eclectus Parrot, Eclectus roratus is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands (Moluccas). It is unusual in the parrot family for their extreme sexual dimorphism; the males are bright green, having bright candy corn coloured upper mandibles and black lower mandibles, and blue or red tail and wing feathers.
Eclipse An eclipse (Greek verb: ekleipĂ´, "to vanish", though it derives from the prefix 'ex-', "away from", and Greek 'leipein', "to leave") is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. The term is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the shadow of Earth.
Eclipse (Autumn Tears album) After four long years of silence, Autumn Tears return with their most epic, conceptual, and fullest neoclassical piece of music they have ever offered. Lush strings, acoustic guitars, and woodwinds accompany soaring orchestral soundscapes, painting the backdrop for a staggering array of vocal performances that range from operatic and classical solos to Baltic choral passages and duets.
Eclipse (DVD) Eclipse is a new line of DVDs recently announced by the Criterion Collection. Their first set, to be released on March 27, will be of early Bergman; their second will be of Louis Malle's lesser-known documentary works.
Eclipse (horse) Eclipse (April 1 1764 - February 26, 1789) was an 18th century British thoroughbred racehorse, descendant of Godolphin Arabian and Regulus that was undefeated during its entire career. Eclipse was born during and named after the solar eclipse of April 1 1764.
Eclipse (software) Eclipse is an open source platform-independent software framework for delivering what the project calls "rich-client applications", as opposed to "thin client" browser-based applications. So far this framework has typically been used to develop Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), such as the Java IDE called Java Development Toolkit (JDT) and compiler (ECJ) that comes as part of Eclipse (and which are also used to develop Eclipse itself).
Eclipse (song) "Eclipse" is the tenthThe track number depends upon the edition of the album; some releases merge the two tracks "Speak to Me" and "Breathe," for instance. and final track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon.
Eclipse 500 The Eclipse 500 is a small, six seat business jet aircraft manufactured by Eclipse Aviation. It is the second of a new class of business jets known as the Very Light Jet (VLJ, previously called 'Microjets'), following the delivery of the first VLJ, the Cessna Citation Mustang in late 2006.
Eclipse Aviation Eclipse Aviation Corporation is an Albuquerque, New Mexico based manufacturer of the Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet (VLJ). Founded in 1998 by former Microsoft employee Vern Raburn, the company employs about 500 people with plans to double that number in 2007.
Eclipse Award The Eclipse Award is a American thoroughbred horse racing award named after the 18th century British racehorse and sire, Eclipse. The Eclipse Awards, honoring the champions of the sport, are sponsored by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers Association who select all finalists at the end of the year.
Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year The Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing. It has been awarded since 1887 to the horse, irrespective of age, whose performance during the racing year is deemed the most outstanding.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding 2-Year-Old Male Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a 2-Year Old Colt or Gelding.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse The Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Yr-Old Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually. The award originated as the "3-Yr-Old Male" champion title but in 1971 the name was changed to honor the horse Eclipse and organized as part of the various horse racing honors under the Eclipse Awards program.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey The Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey is an American thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a jockey undergoing their apprenticeship.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Female Turf Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Female Turf Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a filly, regardless of age, for their performace on grass race courses.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a Colt or Gelding, regardless of age, for their performace on grass race courses.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Female Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Female Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to the top female horse 4 years of age and older.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Male Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a stallion or gelding, 4 years old and up.
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Sprint Horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Sprint Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to the top horse in sprint races usually run at a distance of 6 or 7 furlongs).
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1971, it is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to the top horse in steeplechase racing.
Eclipse Caste The Eclipse Caste is one of five castes of the Solar Exalted. First detailed in White Wolf's Exalted (ISBN 1-56504-623-4), and later expanded upon in its own supplement Caste Book: Eclipse (ISBN 1-58846-664-7), the Eclipse Caste is filled with the diplomats, administrators, and censors of the Solar Exalted.
Eclipse Comet of 1882 The Eclipse Comet of 1882 (modern formal designation: X/1882 K1) was a comet which was discovered by observers in Egypt during the solar eclipse of 1882. Its appearance was a complete surprise, and the sighting of it during the eclipse was the only time it was seen.
Eclipse Comics Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several influential independent publishers during the 1980s and early '90s. In 1978, it published the first graphic novel for the newly-created comic book specialty store market.
Eclipse Modeling Framework Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model. From a model specification described in XMI, EMF provides tools and runtime support to produce a set of Java classes for the model, a set of adapter classes that enable viewing and command-based editing of the model, and a basic editor.
Eclipse of God A period in which God or the divine is absent from the world, the idea that the world is now in a time of darkness or evil resulting from an abandonment by God. A variation of theothanatology, or the God is dead movement, the eclipse of God is normally, though not always, understood as a historical period which might end.
Eclipse Park Eclipse Park is the name of two former baseball grounds located in Louisville, Kentucky. The first ground was home to the Louisville Colonels of the American Association from 1882 to 1891 and then the National League from 1892 to 1893 after the League absorbed the Association.
Eclipse Park (Milwaukee) Eclipse Park, also known as Milwaukee Base-Ball Grounds, is a former baseball ground located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The ground was home to the Milwaukee Grays of the National League during the 1878 season.
Eclipse Stakes The Eclipse Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 7 yards (2,018 metres) at Sandown Park in early July.
Eclipso Eclipso is a fictional character, a villain in the DC Comics Universe. He is portrayed as having been the incarnation of the Wrath of God, the Angel of Vengeance who turned evil and was replaced by the Spectre.
Ecliptic The ecliptic is the apparent path the Sun traces out along the sky — independent of Earth's rotation — in the course of the year. More accurately, it is the intersection of the celestial sphere with the ecliptic plane, which is the geometric plane containing the mean orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
Ecliptic coordinate system The ecliptic coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system that uses the ecliptic for its fundamental plane. The ecliptic is the path that the sun appears to follow across the sky over the course of a year.
Ecliptic Enterprises Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation is a space technology firm that produces the world's leading brand of onboard video and imaging systems (RocketCam systems) for accessing and experiencing space and other extreme environments.
Ecma International Ecma International is an international membership-based standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired the name Ecma International in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) changed its name to express the organization's international reach.
Ecma Office Open XML Ecma Office Open XML (also known as Office Open XML, commonly abbreviated as OOXML) is a file format specification for the storage of electronic documents such as memos, presentations, and spreadsheets. The specification was developed by Microsoft for its Microsoft Office product suite and was standardized by Ecma International as Ecma 376 in December 2006.
Ecnis ECNIS (Environmental Cancer Risk, Nutrition and Individual Susceptibility) - Network of Excellence created by 25 research institutions (~200 scientists) in Europe coordinated by the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in ĹĂłdĹş, Poland - project granted within Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP6). The ultimate goal of the ECNIS NoE is to establish an internationally competitive network of European research centres to overcome the existing fragmentation of activities and to enhance the quality and relevance of research on environment, nutrition, and cancer risk as modulated by diet and genetic disposition.
Eco commerce Eco commerce is a business, investment, and technology-development model that employs market-based solutions to balancing the world’s energy needs and environmental integrity. Through the use of green trading and green finance, eco-commerce allows for the further development of clean technologies such as wind power, solar power, biomass, and hydropower.
Eco couture Eco couture refers to the fashion movement characterized by environmentally friendly, socially conscious, high fashion clothing, shoes, and handbags. The term eco couture is derived from the fashion term haute couture (French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking"), which has come to refer to high fashion in general.
Eco ev Eco EV is a small company started in Colorado in 2007. The primary mission of the organization is to design, develop and build commuter electric vehicles that average Americans can build based on plans they can purchase.
Eco Fighters Eco Fighters, (or Ultimate Ecology in Japan) is an arcade game released by Capcom on the CPS-2 arcade system board on December 1993. The game is a horizontal shooter, where the player controls a ship with a rotating gun.
Eco League The Eco League is a six-college consortium consisting of Antioch College, Alaska Pacific University, Green Mountain College, Northland College, Prescott College and College of the Atlantic. The consortium is unique, in that each college is in a different geographic area.
Eco-anarchism Eco-anarchism argues that small eco-villages (of no more than a few hundred people) are a scale of human living preferable to civilization, and that infrastructure and political systems should be re-organized to ensure that these are created. Eco-anarchists assert that social organizations must be designed to work with natural forces, rather than against.
Eco-building cluster The Eco-building cluster or Green Building Cluster (French: Cluster Eco-construction) is the official cluster of the construction industry in Wallonia (south part of Belgium). The cluster promotes the industry to take into consideration the quality of today's and the future environment, while offering a maximum of comfort to the inhabitants.
Eco-capitalism Eco-capitalism is one of several strategies of the green movement and Green Parties. Its central idea is that capital exists in nature as "natural capital" (self-renewing productive ecosystems that have a measurable ecological yield or tangible benefit to humans) on which all wealth depends.
Eco-cement Eco-Cement is a brand name for a type of cement which incorporates reactive magnesia (sometimes called caustic calcined magnesia or magnesium oxide), another hydraulic cement such as Portland cement, and optionally pozzolans and industrial by-products, to reduce the environmental impact relative to conventional cement. Eco-Cement can include more industrial by-products as aggregate than Portland cement because it is much less alkaline, reducing the incidence of alkali-aggregate reactions which cause damage to hardened concrete.
Eco-cemetery An eco-cemetery is also known as a natural burial ground, a woodland cemetery, a memorial nature preserve, or a green burial ground. This modern burial practice has its origins in both environmental concerns and neo-pagan beliefs, offering a spiritually fulfilling alternative to the conventional burial.
Eco-efficiency The term eco-efficiency was coined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in its 1992 publication "Changing Course". It is based on the concept of creating more goods and services while using fewer resources and creating less waste and pollution.
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