ExpertGlossary acronyms starting with E

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EA — Elections Administrator (EA) An appointed official who performs the election duties of the county clerk and the voter registrar.
EA — Environmental Assessment (EA) A public document that analyzes a proposed federal action for the possibility of significant environmental impacts.
EAC — Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, the Election Assistance Commission serves primarily as a national clearinghouse and resource for…
EAD — Employment Authorization Document (EAD) Employment Authorization Document (EAD) is issued by USCIS as evidence that a worker who is not a citizen or a lawful permanent resident is permitted to…
EAWA — Employ American Workers Act (EAWA) Employ American Workers Act is at section 1611 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 at page 191 of 407.
EBS — Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) A service that provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/ebs.
EBS — Elastic Block Store (EBS) Offers block level storage volumes for EC2 users. With Amazon EBS, users can decrease the risk of running into component failures as its feature…
EC2 — Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) A web service that enables you to launch and manage Linux/UNIX and Windows server instances in Amazon's data centers. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/ec2.
EC2 — Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) A web service that is central to Amazon’s cloud computing platform. It allows users to ‘rent’ from its resizable computing capacity and possibly…
ECO — Engineering Change Order (ECO) An engineering task or project directly resulting from an Engineering Change Request.
ECOA — Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) Prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age, or…
ECR — Engineering Change Request (ECR) A method of formally requesting that a change be made to the infrastructure. This change can be to a particular instrument, data system, data process…
EER — Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER) The measure of the instantaneous energy efficiency of room air conditioners; the cooling capacity in Btu/hr divided by the watts of power consumed at a…
EESA — Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) A 2008 statute that authorized the U.S. Department of the Treasury to undertake specific measures to provide stability and prevent disruption in the…
EF — Energy Factor (EF) The measure of overall efficiency for a variety of appliances. For water heaters, the energy factor is based on three factors: 1) the recovery efficiency…
EFG — Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth (EFG) A method for making sheets of polycrystalline silicon (for solar photovoltaic devices) in which molten silicon is drawn upward by capillary action through…
EFSC — Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC) In Oregon, a seven-member council that coordinates and approves siting for most large power plants, transmission lines and pipelines.
EFT — Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than…
EFTA — Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA) Signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the act is intended to protect individual consumers engaging in electronic fund transfers (EFTs).
EHR — Electronic Health Record (EHR) A computerized record of patient health in a care delivery setting. Typically, the data collected are created by and for health professionals while…
EIC — Earned Income Credit (EIC) The earned income tax credit (EIC) reduces the income tax of that certain low-income taxpayers would otherwise owe.
EIC — Election Identification Certificate (EIC) A form of identification issued by the department of public safety to individuals who do not already have an acceptable form of photo identification to…
EIS — Early Intervention Services (EIS) Activities designed to identify individuals who are HIV-positive and get them into care as quickly as possible.
EIS — Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) A comprehensive study of likely environmental impacts resulting from major federally-assisted projects; statements are required by the National…
EJ — Environmental Justice (EJ) Environmental Justice (EJ) is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with…
ELF — Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Refers to a band of frequencies from 30 to 300 Hz.
ELISA — Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) This laboratory test is now often used to determine whether mosquito salivary glands are positive for sporozoites.
EMA — Eligible Metropolitan Area (EMA) Geographic areas highly-impacted by HIV/AIDS that are eligible to receive Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A funds To be an eligible EMA, an area must…
EMF — Electric and magnetic field (EMF) Electric and magnetic fields are generated when charged particles (e.g., electrons) are accelerated. Charged particles in motion produce magnetic fields.
EMF — Electromagnetic Field (EMF) The electrical and magnetic fields created by the presence or flow of electricity in an electrical conductor or electricity consuming appliance or motor.
EMR — Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Allows any AWS user to process large amounts of data using a hosted Hadoop framework. This feature runs on the EC2 and S3 infrastructure.
EOS — Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) An effort to study the earth as a system while tracking long-term changes on a global scale.
EPA — Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established as an independent agency on December 2, 1970 during President Nixon's term in office.
EPCRA — Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), also known as SARA Title III, was enacted in November 1986.
EPO — Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO) Plan A managed care plan where services are covered only if you go to doctors, specialists, or hospitals in the plan’s network (except in an emergency).
EPSDT — Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Services (EPSDT) A term used to refer to the comprehensive set of benefits covered for children in Medicaid.
ER — Emergency Response (ER) The U.S. EPA's Emergency Response (ER) Program coordinates and implements a wide range of activities to ensure that adequate and timely response measures…
ERI — Environmental Resource Inventory (ERI) A listing and description of natural resources and general environmental characteristics of a given geographic area.
ERISA — Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a comprehensive and complex statute that federalizes the law of employee benefits.
ERNS — Emergency Response Notification System (ERNS) The Emergency Response Notification System (ERNS) is a database used to store information on notifications of oil discharges and hazardous substances…
ERO — Electronic Return Originator (ERO) The Authorized IRS e-file Provider that originates the electronic submission of an income tax return to the IRS.
ERT — Environmental Response Team (ERT) In 1978, the Environmental Response Team (ERT) was established under Section 311 of the Clean Water Act to provide on-site national expert as required by…
ESA — Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) Requires consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and/or the National Marine Fisheries Service to determine whether endangered or threatened…
ESBL — Extended-spectrum ß-lactamase (ESBL) Beta-lactamases are enzymes that destroy certain antibiotics; ESBLs are bacteria that have acquired these enzymes and become resistant to those drugs.
ESBL — Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) Beta-lactamases are enzymes that destroy certain antibiotics. ESBLs are bacteria that have acquired these enzymes and have become resistant to certain…
ESCO — Energy Service Company (ESCO) A company that specializes in undertaking energy efficiency measures under a contractual arrangement whereby the ESCO shares the value of energy savings…
ESRP — Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP) The Affordable Care Act requires certain employers with at least 50 full-time employees (or equivalents) to offer health insurance coverage to its…
ET — Ecotox Thresholds (ET) Ecotox Thresholds (ET) are defined as media-specific contaminant concentrations above which there is sufficient concern regarding adverse ecological…
ETA — Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Labor which includes the Office of Foreign Labor Certification…
ETBE — Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (ETBE) A chemical compound produced in a reaction between ethanol and isobutylene (a petroleum-derived by-product of the refining process).
EVP — electronic voice phenomena (EVP) The abbreviation for “electronic voice phenomena,” which refers to noises of a paranormal nature that cannot be heard with the human ear, but are…
EWR — Engineering Work Request (EWR) Used to request engineering resources, as soon as possible, when operational, science, or engineering needs require a quick engineering response where no…