EST
Encyclopedia

Places

  • Est (Netherlands)
    Est (Netherlands)
    Est is a town in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Neerijnen, and lies about 8 km west of Tiel.In 2001, the town of Est had 600+ inhabitants...

    , a town in Gelderland
  • Estonia
    Estonia
    Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

    , a nation in northern Europe
    • Estonian language
      Estonian language
      Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various émigré communities...

      , the Estonian language in ISO 639.2 or ISO 639–3 language codes
  • Est Region (Burkina Faso), one of Burkina Faso's 13 administrative regions
  • Est Region (Cameroon), a region in the southeast of the Republic of Cameroon
  • Ed Sullivan Theater
    Ed Sullivan Theater
    The Ed Sullivan Theater, located at 1697-1699 Broadway between West 53rd and West 54th, in Manhattan, is a venerable radio and television studio in New York City...

    , a building in New York housing radio and television studios
  • Empire State Building
    Empire State Building
    The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark skyscraper and American cultural icon in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet , and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 ft high. Its name is derived...

    , a skyscraper in New York
  • Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone
    Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone
    Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone is an Italian wine region centered around the commune of Montefiascone in province of Viterbo in Latium...

    , Italian wine region
  • European Society for Translation Studies
    European Society for Translation Studies
    The European Society for Translation Studies is an international non-profit organization that promotes research on translation, interpreting, and localization.-Name and abbreviation:...

    , an organization that promotes research on translation, interpreting, and localization

Film, TV and music

  • Est (TV series), a TV reality game show in which contestants are locked in a room and psychoanalyzed
  • E.S.T. (band), a Russian heavy metal music
    Heavy metal music
    Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

     band
  • Esbjörn Svensson Trio
    Esbjörn Svensson Trio
    Esbjörn Svensson Trio was a Swedish jazz piano trio formed in 1993 consisting of Esbjörn Svensson , Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström . Its music has classical, rock, pop, and techno elements. It lists classical composer Béla Bartók and rock band Radiohead as influences...

    , a Swedish jazz trio that issued recordings under the acronym "E.S.T."
  • "E.S.T.", a song by British band White Lies from their debut album To Lose My Life...
    To Lose My Life...
    To Lose My Life... is the debut album by the British Indie rock band White Lies. It was released on 19 January 2009, through Fiction Records...


Organizations

  • Energy Saving Trust
    Energy Saving Trust
    Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organisation jointly funded by the British Government and the private sector in order to help fight climate change by promoting the sustainable use of energy, energy conservation and to cut carbon dioxide emissions in the United Kingdom.-Background:The Energy...

    , a United Kingdom organization for fighting climate change.
  • Edwards Systems Technology, a fire safety systems company owned by GE Security
    GE Security
    GE Security was a division of General Electric Inc's GE Enterprise Solutions. It was acquired by UTC on March 1, 2010 and is now part of UTC Fire & Security...

    .
  • Erhard Seminars Training
    Erhard Seminars Training
    Erhard Seminars Training, an organization founded by Werner H. Erhard, offered a two-weekend course known officially as "The est Standard Training"...

    , usually est in lower case, a New Age Large Group Awareness Training seminar program.
  • European Society for Translation Studies
    European Society for Translation Studies
    The European Society for Translation Studies is an international non-profit organization that promotes research on translation, interpreting, and localization.-Name and abbreviation:...

    .
  • Washington University Emergency Support Team, a volunteer EMS team at Washington University in St. Louis.

Time

  • European Summer Time
    European Summer Time
    European Summer Time is the arrangement in Europe by which clocks are advanced by one hour in spring to make the most of seasonal daylight. This is done in all of the countries of Europe except Iceland which observes Greenwich Mean Time all year round, and Russia, which has two time zones in...

    , the daylight-saving time used in Europe
  • Eastern Standard Time, the name of two separate time zones:
    • North American Eastern Time Zone
      Eastern Time Zone
      The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...

       standard time, UTC-5
    • Australian Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10

Science and medicine

  • Expressed sequence tag
    Expressed sequence tag
    An expressed sequence tag or EST is a short sub-sequence of a cDNA sequence. They may be used to identify gene transcripts, and are instrumental in gene discovery and gene sequence determination. The identification of ESTs has proceeded rapidly, with approximately 65.9 million ESTs now available in...

    , the (usually partial) sequence of a gene transcript in biology
  • Endodermal sinus tumor
    Endodermal sinus tumor
    Endodermal sinus tumor , also known as yolk sac tumor , is a member of the germ cell tumor group of cancers. It is the most common testicular tumor in children under 3, and is also known as infantile embryonal carcinoma. This age group has a very good prognosis...

    , a cancer of the germ cell tumor group
  • Ecological Systems Theory
    Ecological Systems Theory
    Ecological systems theory, also called development in context or human ecology theory, specifies four types of nested environmental systems, with bi-directional influences within and between the systems.- Overview :...

    , a theory in developmental psychology
  • Electroconvulsive therapy
    Electroconvulsive therapy
    Electroconvulsive therapy , formerly known as electroshock, is a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Its mode of action is unknown...

     or electroshock therapy, a psychiatric treatment that electrically induces seizures
  • Evidence-based practice or empirically-supported treatments, an approach to mental and behavioral health treatment
  • Exercise Stress Test, a cardiac study used to asses heart function under stress

Other uses

  • Est (Fire Emblem archetype), opposite of the Jeigan archetype in the Nintendo video game series
  • Estimation
    Estimation
    Estimation is the calculated approximation of a result which is usable even if input data may be incomplete or uncertain.In statistics,*estimation theory and estimator, for topics involving inferences about probability distributions...

    , an approximately calculated result with uncertain input
  • Electron spiral toroid
    Electron spiral toroid
    Electron Power Systems, Inc. of Acton, Massachusetts, United States, claims to have developed a technology for maintaining small stable plasma toroids called electron spiral toroids which remain stable in Earth's atmosphere without the use of any special magnetic fields...

    , a technology for maintaining small stable plasma toroids
  • Electronic sell-through
    Electronic Sell-Through
    Electronic Sell-Through describes a method of media distribution whereby consumers pay a one-time fee to download a digital media file for storage on a hard drive. Although EST is often described as a transaction that grants content "ownership" to the consumer, the content may become unusable...

    , a system of selling video over the internet
  • European Seniors Tour
    European Seniors Tour
    The European Seniors Tour is a professional tour for male golfers aged 50 and over run by the PGA European Tour.The Tour was founded in 1992. In 2008 it had a total prize fund of €7,729,284, so it is much further behind the U.S.-based Champions Tour in relative prize money than the main European...

    , a professional golf tour for men aged 50 and over
  • Extended standard theory, an early theory of generative grammar
    Generative grammar
    In theoretical linguistics, generative grammar refers to a particular approach to the study of syntax. A generative grammar of a language attempts to give a set of rules that will correctly predict which combinations of words will form grammatical sentences...

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