ea

noun

1. (UK, archaic, dialectal)A river or watercourse.

   “And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song of all the birds around; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high overhead, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of executive assistant.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of estate agent.
4. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of enrolled agent.
5. (Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of educational assistant.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of ethyl acetate.

   “For copolymers of ethylene, the other comonomer can be an alkene such as propene, butene, hexene or octene, or a compound having a polar functional group such as vinyl acetate (VA), acrylic acid (AA), ethyl acetate (EA), methyl acrylate (MA) or vinyl alcohol (VOH).”

7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of environmental assessment.

   “After the EA is issued, a public hearing and associated public comment period will be held to again solicit public input and to create an administrative record.”

8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of enterprise architecture.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of evolutionary algorithm.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of effective altruism.

    “[…] Christine Emba’s Sept. 6 op-ed, “The trouble with ‘longtermism,’ ” countered this philosophy’s occasional fanaticism with glib reductiveness. Moreover, she tarred with the same brush the spirit of the entire effective altruism (EA) movement — the giveaway at the start is that EA is derided for being “obsessed with ‘doing good better.’ ””

    “This is the language of effective altruism — or E.A. — a philanthropic movement premised on the use of reason and data to do good. Bankman-Fried had long flaunted his E.A. bona fides to distinguish himself from other crypto billionaires.”

    “EA, to which many in OpenAI’s Safety clan were early adherents, made for the perfect Silicon Valley ideology. It preaches making the world a better place and doing it with rigorous logic, being disciplined enough to focus on the far future instead of the present, and fervently embracing the principles of capitalism and libertarianism—all in the name of morality.”

11. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of effective altruist.

    “In November, 2022, when ChatGPT was released, [Sam] Bankman-Fried, the richest and most famous effective altruist, was unmasked as a generational talent at white-collar crime. Many E.A.s now disavow the label: I interviewed people who had attended E.A. conferences, lived in E.A. group houses, and admitted to being passionate about both effectiveness and altruism, but would not cop to being E.A.s themselves.”

12. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable)Abbreviation of elastane

det

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of ea.

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Environment Agency.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Eid al-Adha.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of East Africa.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Electronic Arts.

   “Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added.”

5. The name of Enki in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

   “The Chaldeans had great faith in Ea, their god of healing, to whom prayers were said in case of sickness, but herb remedies were also given the patient by the god's representative in the community.”