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arcane | e |

As an adjective arcane

is understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.

As a letter e is

the letter e with a circumflex.

arcane

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane' knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.

    Synonyms

    * esoteric * recondite * clandestine

    Antonyms

    * mundane

    Related terms

    * arcana

    References

    * * * ----

    e

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=d, next=f, image= (wikipedia e)

    Letter

  • The fifth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * See

    Symbol

    (Close-mid front unrounded vowel) (head)
  • (label) The base of natural logarithms, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459
  • Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
    • 1.2566e-6 = 1.2566 × 10-6
  • close-mid front unrounded vowel
  • (l)
    • a'' ? ''e''''' = '''''e'' ? ''a'' = ''a
  • (label) electron

    • Synonyms

    * (electron) * (identity element) , (chiefly matrices) (l)

    See also

    {{Letter , page=E , NATO=Echo , Morse=· , Character=E5 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin E.png, Capital and lowercase versions of E , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter E.png, Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur Image:Uncial e.png, Approximate form of upper case letter E in uncial script that was the source for lower case e ----