E vs En - What's the difference?
e | en |
The fifth letter of the .
(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.
close-mid front unrounded vowel
(l)
(label) electron
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
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English
(typography) A unit of measurement equal to half of an em (half of the height of the type in use).
En is a contraction of e.
As nouns the difference between e and en
is that e is the illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA) while en is english.As a letter E
is : On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.As a symbol E
is everyone.As a preposition en is
Used in various phrases borrowed from French or formed as if borrowed from French (see "Derived terms" below).As an initialism EN is
Nicomachean Ethicse
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=d, next=f, image= (wikipedia e)Letter
See also
(Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * SeeSymbol
(Close-mid front unrounded vowel) (head)- 1.2566e-6 = 1.2566 × 10-6
- a'' ? ''e''''' = '''''e'' ? ''a'' = ''a
Synonyms
* (electron) * (identity element) , (chiefly matrices) (l)See also
{{Letter , page=E , NATO=Echo , Morse=· , Character=E5 , Braille=? }}en
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation.Noun
(head)Etymology 2
The name of the letter comes from (etyl) en. The typographic sense dates to 1793.Noun
(en noun)- The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.
