e

See also: E, è, é, e-, -e, and Appendix:Variations of "e"

e U+0065, e LATIN SMALL LETTER E ← d [U+0064] Basic Latin f → [U+0066]

Character variations

ᵉ U+1D49, ᵉ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL E ← ᵈ [U+1D48] Phonetic Extensions ᵊ → [U+1D4A]

ｅ U+FF45, ｅ FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER E ← ｄ [U+FF44] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｆ → [U+FF46]

Languages (128)

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Translingual

English Wikipedia has an article on:

e

Wikipedia

Etymology

Modification of capital letter E in uncial script, from Ancient Greek Ε (E, epsilon).

Pronunciation

• Pronunciation of IPA [eː]:

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Letter

e (upper case E)

2. The fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter E):  Éé  Èè  Êê  Ḙḙ  Ěě  Ĕĕ  Ẽẽ  Ḛḛ  Ẻẻ  Ėė  Ëë  Ēē  Ȩȩ  Ęę  ᶒ  Ɇɇ  Ȅȅ  Ếế  Ềề  Ễễ  Ểể  Ḝḝ  Ḗḗ  Ḕḕ  Ȇȇ  Ẹẹ  Ệệ  ⱸ  ᴇ  Ｅｅ  Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  &  Œœ  ᵫ
• (select similar letters and symbols) ɘ ǝ Ə Ɛ Æ Œ
• (other scripts) ε (epsilon) е
• See Appendix:Variations of "e"

Symbol

English Wikipedia has an article on:

e (mathematical constant)

Wikipedia

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Close-mid front unrounded vowel

Wikipedia

e

2. (mathematics) The base of natural logarithms, also known as Euler's number, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459…
4. (sciences, computing) Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.

   1.2566e−6 = 1.2566 × 10⁻⁶

6. (IPA) a close-mid front unrounded vowel.
7. (superscript ⟨ᵉ⟩, IPA) [e]-coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [e].
9. (algebra, group theory) identity element.

   a ∘ e = e ∘ a = a

11. (particle physics) Electron.

    Coordinate terms: p, n

13. (physics) Elementary charge.
15. (mathematics) Eccentricity.
    • 2006 August, Alexander V. Krivov, Artem G. Feofilov, Valeri V. Dikarev, “Search for the putative dust belts of Mars: The late 2007 opportunity”, in Planetary and Space Science, volume 54, numbers 9–10 (in English), →DOI, page 873:

      In addition, we included here another effect—the modulation of the radiation pressure force by the orbital eccentricity of Mars, ${\displaystyle e_{M}=0.093}$—an effect, whose existence was first pointed out by Juhász and Horányi (1995) […]

16. (materials science) Engineering strain.

    Coordinate term: ε (true strain)

Usage notes

In the sense as a mathematical constant, the symbol is traditionally represented in an italic font.

Synonyms

• (scientific notation): E
• (electron): e⁻
• (identity element): 1, (chiefly matrices) I

Gallery

• Letter styles
• 
  Uppercase and lowercase versions of E, in normal and italic type
• 
  Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur
• 
  Approximate form of upper case letter E in uncial script that was the source for lower case e

See also

Other representations of E:

NATO phonetic: Echo Morse code: · Braille: ⠑ ASL Manual: E

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

English

Etymology 1

The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ˈiː/

  • Audio (UK):

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  • Audio (US):

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  • Rhymes: -iː
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɛ/, /iː/, /ɪ/, /ə/, /eɪ/
  • In addition to the phonemes noted above, "e" can also be silent, representing no sound itself but indicating which phoneme another letter in the word represents. See the article "Silent e" on Wikipedia.

Letter

e (lower case, upper case E, plural es or e's)

1. The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Coordinate terms

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

Derived terms

• closed e
• efold
• e-folding
• e-form
• open e
• silent e

Number

e (lower case, upper case E)

1. The ordinal number fifth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Noun

e (plural ees)

2. The name of the Latin-script letter E/e.

Alternative forms

• ee

Coordinate terms

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed ^{(Category: en:Latin letter names)}

Etymology 2

From a deliberate apheresis of both he and she.

Pronoun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Spivak pronouns

Wikipedia

e (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative em, possessive adjective eir, possessive noun eirs, reflexive emself)

1. (rare, epicene, nonstandard) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
   • 2000, Jane Love, “Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pegagogy of Disorderly Conduct”, in James A. Inman, Donna N. Sewell, editors, Taking flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →OL, LCC PE1414.T24 1999, page 193:

     E invites em to consider how ey represent emselves^[sic], and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible.

   • 2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202

     Empre waded out to help them cross the last stretch. More people, a few hundred, perhaps, had gathered along the shore. One of them came running at Melu with a cry—she threw up her arms in defense. But it was Aeran, only Aeran. E seized Asu and clasped her close, eir eyes closed tightly as e sobbed eir relief.

Synonyms

• ey
• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

Translations

See e/translations § English.

Etymology 3

From the common method of counting semiquavers as "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a" and so on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː/

Noun

e

1. (music, informal) The second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat.

   Coordinate terms: and, a

   The sax comes in on the e of one.

Alternative forms

• ee

Afar

Letter

e

1. The fifth letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, T t, S s, E e, C c, K k, X x, I i, D d, Q q, R r, F f, G g, O o, L l, M m, N n, U u, W w, H h, Y y

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

e (plural e's, diminutive e'tjie)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter E/e.

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e̞/

Pronoun

e (Kana spelling エ)

1. (second person pronoun) you. Used when the second person is not the object of an action performed by the first person. It often appears as an affix;

   Synonyms: eci, eani

   Seta e-nukar.

   The dog saw you. / You see the dog.

2. Affixional form of eani (“you”).

Verb

e (Kana spelling エ)

1. (transitive) to eat.

   Kam k-e.

   I eat meat.

Synonyms

• ipe

See also

• eci (“you”)
• ku (“to drink”)

Akawaio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/, /e/

Letter

e (upper case E, lower case e)

1. The second letter of the Akawaio alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, E e, I i, Ɨ ɨ, K k, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ʉ ʉ, W w, Y y, ꞌ

References

• Stegeman, Ray; Hunter, Rita (2014), Akawaio-English Dictionary and English-Akawaio Index, SIL International, page 2