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  1. Early Access Former term for First Customer Shipment (FCS). See "FCS."
  2. Early Operational Assessment An operational assessment conducted prior to, or in support of, Milestone II.
  3. Early User Test (EUT) A test employing representative users to examine materiel concepts, training or logistics planning, or inter-operability issues.
  4. Early Warning (1) Early detection of an enemy ballistic missile launch, usually by means of surveillance satellites and long range radar.
  5. Earnings Per Click Many contextual advertising publishers estimate their potential earnings based on how much they make from each click.
  6. earth See ground.
  7. Earth coverage (EC) In satellite communications, the coverage that occurs when the satellite-to-Earth beam is sufficiently wide to cover all of the surface of the Earth…
  8. earth electrode subsystem A network of electrically interconnected rods, plates, mats, or grids, installed and connected, for the purpose of establishing a low-resistance contact…
  9. Earth exploration-satellite service A radiocommunication service between Earth stations and one or more space stations, which may include links between space stations, in which: information…
  10. earth ground See ground.
  11. Earth Limb The apparent outer edge of the earth as viewed from space.
  12. Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) (EOS) An effort to study the earth as a system while tracking long-term changes on a global scale.
  13. Earth station A station located either on the Earth's surface or within the major portion of the Earth's atmosphere and intended for communication: with one or more…
  14. Earth terminal In a satellite link, one of the non-orbiting communications stations that receives, processes, and transmits signals between itself and a satellite.
  15. Earth terminal complex In satellite communications systems, the assembly of equipment and facilities necessary to integrate an Earth terminal into a communications network.
  16. EAS Abbreviation for extended area service.
  17. ease of use An aspect of the assessment of the effectiveness of a Target of Evaluation, namely that it cannot be configured or used in a manner which is insecure but…
  18. Easter Egg Hidden functionality within an application program, which becomes activated when an undocumented, and often convoluted, set of commands and keystrokes are…
  19. Eastern Test Range (ETR) Beginning at Patrick AFB, FL, this range stretches halfway around the globe where it meets the Western Test Range.
  20. Eavesdropping Surreptitiously obtaining data from an unknowing end user who is performing a legitimate function.
  21. EB (1) Electron Beam. (2) Enhanced Blast.
  22. EBB Electronic Bulletin Board.
  23. EBCDIC Extended Binary Code Decimal Interchange Code.
  24. EbN0 See signal-to-noise ratio per bit.
  25. EBS Emergency Broadcast System
  26. EBW Electron Beam Welding.
  27. ebXML Electronic Business XML. A group of specifications designed to enable enterprises to conduct business through the exchange of XML-based messages.
  28. EC See: Enzyme Commission number.
  29. EC/EDI Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data Interchange
  30. EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) EC2 stands for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. Using EC2 you can launch instances (specific packages of dedicated compute resources) that look and feel…
  31. EC2 compute unit An AWS standard for compute CPU and memory. This measure enables you to evaluate the CPU capacity of different EC2 instance types.
  32. EC2 instance In Amazon EC2, this is simply an instance. Other AWS services use the term EC2 instance to distinguish these instances from other types of instances they…
  33. ECAC Electromagnetic Compatibility Analysis Center.
  34. ECAP (Enhanced Cartridge Access Port) an 80-cartridge enter/eject facility for a StorageTek robotic tape library. See CAP.
  35. ECB Engineering Change Board.
  36. ECC Eastern Colorado Area Office (Loveland, CO).
  37. ECCM Electronic Counter-Countermeasures.
  38. ECCST (Enhanced Capacity Cartridge System Tape) a double length tape cartridge with a nominal uncompressed capacity of approximately 800 Mbytes.
  39. ECDs Element Control Directives.
  40. Echo Energy back scattered from a target (precipitation, clouds, etc.) and received by and displayed on a radar screen.
  41. echo area See scattering cross section.
  42. echo attenuation In a communication circuit (4- or 2-wire) in which the two directions of transmission can be separated from each other, the attenuation of echo signals…
  43. echo canceler See echo suppressor.
  44. echo cancellation In a system, the reduction of the power level of an echo or the elimination of an echo.
  45. echo check A check to determine the integrity of transmission of data, whereby the received data are returned to the source for comparison with the originally…
  46. echo command A programming language command that causes an echo response from a computer to be displayed on a monitor or printer for analysis or monitoring of the…
  47. echo effect See ghost.
  48. echo line In computer systems, on a hard-output or display device, a line of information that verifies (reflects) data entered into the computer.
  49. echo loss The ratio in dB of the power of a transmitted signal that is echo loss weighted (as specified in ITU-T Recommendation G.
  50. echo path capacity The maximum echo path delay for which an echo canceler is designed to operate. [T1.508-1998]
  51. echo path delay (EPD) The time in milliseconds (ms) between the incidence of a signal and the incidence of that signal's echo at a measurement point. [T1.255-1997]
  52. echo return loss See return loss.
  53. echo sounding The measurement of the depth of a body of water or the distance to an object in a body of water by measuring the time it takes sound or electromagnetic…
  54. echo suppression The procedure by which characters entered into a system are not physically revealed [CESG].
  55. echo suppressor A device for connection to a two-way telephone circuit to attenuate echo signals in one direction caused by signals in the other direction.
  56. echoplex An echo check used in public switched networks operating in the full-duplex transmission mode, i.e., the two-way-simultaneous mode.
  57. ECL (Execution Control List) An ECL is a feature accessed through the User Preferences dialog box that enhances security of your workstation data.
  58. eclectic Derived from many sources. Some would say too many.
  59. ECLS ERINT Command and Launch System.
  60. ECM Enterprise content management.
  61. ECN Engineering Change Notice.
  62. ECO Engagement Control Orders.
  63. ECP (1) Engineering Change Proposal. (2) Emergency Command Precedence.
  64. ECPMO Electronic Commerce Program Management Office.
  65. ECS Engagement Control Station (PATRIOT).
  66. ECS (Exchange Conferencing Services) A service that allows users to meet in virtual rooms on a server running Exchange.
  67. ECU Environmental Control Unit.
  68. EDAC Error Detection and Correction
  69. EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment) Enhanced Data GSM Environment (EDGE) is a new, faster version of GSM. EDGE is designed to support transfer rates up to 384Kbps and enable the delivery of…
  70. edge busyness In a video display, distortion that is concentrated at or near the edge of objects, and that is categorized further by its temporal and spatial…
  71. edge device Any device, for example a NetCache appliance, that is deployed at the periphery of a LAN and WAN environment to interface traffic from the edge of one…
  72. edge matching An editing procedure to ensure that all features that cross adjacent map sheets have the same edge locations.
  73. Edge Rules agent An agent that enables organizations to apply anti-spam-based transport rules to e-mail messages that are sent between an Exchange Server 2007 organization…
  74. Edge Subscription The record of an Edge Transport server that has been subscribed to an Exchange organization and to which the Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync service…
  75. Edge Subscription file The XML file that is exported on the Edge Transport server and imported on the Hub Transport server to establish an Edge Subscription. [Exchange 2007]
  76. Edge Transport [server role] An Exchange Server 2007 server role that provides anti-spam and antivirus protection and applies messaging security policies to messages in…
  77. Edge Transport server role An Exchange Server 2007 server role that provides anti-spam and antivirus protection and applies messaging security policies to messages in transport…
  78. edge-emitting LED An LED that has a physical structure superficially resembling that of an injection laser diode, operated below the lasing threshold and emitting…
  79. EDGES Electronic Data/Guidelines for Element Survivability.
  80. EdgeSync A collection of processes that are run on the Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport server role to establish one-way replication of recipient and…
  81. EdgeSync synchronization The task or process that the Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync service performs to propagate data from the Active Directory directory service to the subscribed…
  82. EDI See electronic data interchange (EDI).
  83. EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Eliminating forms altogether by encoding the data as close as possible to the point of the transaction; automated business information exchange.
  84. edit To correct errors within, or modify, a computer file, a geographic data set, or a tabular file containing attribute data.
  85. Edit mode The state in which you can create or modify a document.
  86. edit-compile-run cycle A common part of the program development process. A source file is created initially and compiled.
  87. editable field On a form, a field whose value is determined by a formula that you write to supply a default value, edit the user's entry, and validate the entry to make…
  88. Editor access An access level that allows users to create, read, and edit any documents. Servers can replicate new documents, change existing documents, and, if they…
  89. Editorial Link Search engines count links as votes of quality. They primarily want to count editorial links that were earned over links that were bought or bartered.
  90. EDL Electrical Discharge Laser
  91. EDM Engineering Development Model.
  92. EDMS See electronic document management system (EDMS).
  93. EDMS (Electronic Document Management System) A system to electronically manage documents during all life cycles. See Electronic Document Management.
  94. EDP Engineering Development Process
  95. EDR Embedded Data Recorder (PATRIOT).
  96. EDS Enterprise Directory Services
  97. EDTV Abbreviation for extended-definition television.
  98. edu In a URL, a domain-name suffix indicating an education institution.
  99. Education Formal education information. For example, schools, universities, colleges, and related activities.
  100. Education (Information Security) Education integrates all of the security skills and competencies of the various functional specialties into a common body of knowledge . . .