EE

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ee"

Translingual

Symbol

EE

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Estonia since 1992.

   Synonym: EST (alpha-3)

English

Pronunciation

• (initialism): Hyphenation: Ee‧Ee

(electrical engineer[ing]):

• Hyphenation: double‧Ee
• Hyphenation: Ee‧Ee

Proper noun

EE

1. (linguistics) Initialism of Estuary English.

   Coordinate terms: MLE, SSBE

   • 2023 October 31, “Language barrier: why even Harry has stopped speaking the king’s English”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     A new study from the University of Essex, which analysed the speech patterns of 200 participants. About 26% spoke EE, half spoke SSBE and the rest spoke MLE.

2. (Christianity) Initialism of Evangelism Explosion.
3. (academic philosophy) Initialism of Eudemian Ethics.
4. (UK, historical) Initialism of English Electric.

Noun

EE (countable and uncountable, plural EEs)

1. Initialism of electrical engineering.
2. (countable) Initialism of electrical engineer.
3. (uncountable, psychiatry) Initialism of expressed emotion.
   • 2022 July 21, Siu-Man Ng, Siyu Gao, Amenda Man Wang, Christine Cheuk, Melody Hiu-ying Fung, “Survey of High Expressed Emotions Experienced By Community Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, volume 3, number 1, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 2:

     People with other mental disorders, even common mental disorders like depression, may still experience severe high EE conditions. The interactions between people with different mental disorders and their caregivers, and the precise mechanisms of high EE could be further explored.

4. Initialism of Easter egg.

   POV: It's 2015 and you discover the creepiest EE.

5. (software) Initialism of execution environment

Related terms

engineering

• CE
• EN
• ENG
• ME
• PE

psychiatry

• EOI (“emotional over-involvement”)

See also

• EN