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edu

In a URL, a domain-name suffix indicating an education institution.

EEPP

End-to-End Path Protection

EEPROM

Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EERE

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

EERP

End-to-End Resource Planning

EF

Expedited Forwarding

Effective 2-Wire

The term "Effective 2-Wire" denotes a condition which permits the simultaneous transmission in both directions over a channel, but it is not possible to insure independent information transmission in both directions. Effective 2-wire channels may be terminated with 2-wire or 4-wire interfaces.

Effective 4-Wire

The term "Effective 4-Wire" denotes a condition which permits the simultaneous independent transmission of information in both directions over a channel. The method of implementing effective 4-wire transmission is at the discretion of the Access Service Provider (physical, time domain, frequency-domain separation or echo cancellation techniques).

effective boresight area (of a steerable satellite beam)

An area on the surface of the Earth within which the boresight of a steerable satellite beam is pointed. There may be more than one unconnected effective boresight area to which a single steerable satellite beam can be pointed. [NTIA] [RR]

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