ES

See also: Appendix:Variations of "es"

Translingual

Etymology 1

Symbol

ES

1. (metrology) Symbol for exasiemens, an SI unit of electrical conductance equal to 10¹⁸ siemens.

Etymology 2

From Spanish España.

Symbol

ES

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Spain.

   Synonym: ESP (alpha-3)

English

Proper noun

ES

1. Initialism of Espírito Santo: a state of Brazil.
2. (computer languages) Initialism of ECMAScript.
   • 2015, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook: Programming the Web, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 41:

     Work is underway, though, on the next generation of ES, appropriately named ES.Next (ECMA-262 Edition 6), but commonly referred to as ES 6. / As consensus is reached on new ES features, they’re added to the existing draft specification. They’re also listed in ES compatibility tables, such as the ones Mozilla incorporates in much of its documentation, and the exceedingly helpful ECMAScript 6 Compatibility Table.

   • 2018, Kishori Sharan, Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API, 2nd edition, Apress, →ISBN, page 652:

     Several implementations of ES exist, for example, JavaScript, JScript, and Nashorn JavaScript.

   • 2019, Jack Xu, Practical Multiple-Page Apps with ASP.NET Core and Angular Elements: Building Modern Multiple-Page Web Applications Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Angular Elements, WebPack, RXJS, and Mini-SPAs, New York, N.Y.: UniCAD Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:

     If you open the tsconfig.json file in the project root folder, you can check which ES version is used in building your application and which ES version is used to target your browser.

Noun

ES (uncountable)

1. Initialism of environmental science.
2. Initialism of emergency services.
3. Initialism of engineering sample.
4. (Philippines) Initialism of elementary school.
5. (Philippines) Initialism of executive secretary.

Anagrams

• -se, SE, Se., se, se.

Japanese

Etymology

From initial of wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from entry +‎ sheet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iː e̞sɨ]

Noun

ES(イーエス) • (ī-esu) 

1. short for エントリーシート (entorī shīto, “application form”)

Latvian

Proper noun

ES

1. initialism of Eiropas Savienība (European Union)

Lithuanian

Proper noun

ES f

1. initialism of Europos Sąjunga (“European Union”)

Portuguese

Proper noun

ES

1. initialism of Espírito Santo: a state of Brazil

Further reading

• “ES”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “ES”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025