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| Word | Meaning | Eponym |
| Einstein | A genius (The kid's no Einstein). | Albert Einstein (1879-1955), a brilliant German-born American physicist, known for his Theory of Relativity and formula for energy: e=mc2. |
| epicure | A person of refined tastes. | Epicurus (341-270 BCE), Greek philosopher who taught that the highest form of good is pleasure and virtue. |
| erlang | A unit of the intensity of traffic in a communication system. | Agner Krarup Erlang (1878-1929), a Danish mathematician who is the founder of modern telephonic traffic theory that made possible multiple telephone circuits on a single wire. |
| erotic | Sexually stimulating. | Eros, the Greek god of love. |
| euphuism | An affectedly elegant literary style. | After Euphues in the romantic novels Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580) by English writer John Lyly (circa1554-1606). |
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