English words starting with ei

Meanings of Eident:

adjective

Diligent; industrious.

Usage examples:

A gifted and eident pupil

Meanings of Eider:

noun

A northern sea duck, of which the male is mainly black-and-white with a coloured head, and the female brown.

Usage examples:

Sea ducks like scoters and eiders are also divers.

Meanings of Eiderdown:

noun

A quilt filled with down (originally from the eider) or some other soft material.

Usage examples:

She lay in the middle of the big bed, her slender figure - now thinned by her illness - seeming los…

Meanings of Eiders:

noun

A northern sea duck, of which the male is mainly black-and-white with a coloured head, and the female brown.

Usage examples:

Sea ducks like scoters and eiders are also divers.

Meanings of Eidetic:

adjective

Relating to or denoting mental images having unusual vividness and detail, as if actually visible.

Usage examples:

An eidetic memory

Meanings of Eidetically:

adverb

In exact detail, as if you can see facts or images in your mind

Usage examples:

Most people failed to reproduce the pictures eidetically., too much information can hamper the abil…

Meanings of Eidola:

noun

An idealized person or thing.

Usage examples:

The subjectification of the beloved in petrarchan lyric entails the internalization of a feminine i…

Meanings of Eidolon:

noun

An idealized person or thing.

Usage examples:

The subjectification of the beloved in petrarchan lyric entails the internalization of a feminine i…

Meanings of Eidolons:

noun

An idealized person or thing.

Usage examples:

The subjectification of the beloved in petrarchan lyric entails the internalization of a feminine i…

Meanings of Eidos:

noun

The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group.

Usage examples:

He finds the eidos of the iatmul people to be characterized among other things by a tendency to con…

Meanings of Eiffel:

noun

A famous tall structure in paris, made of metal, that is often regarded as a symbol of paris or france

Meanings of Eigenfrequency:

noun

One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.

Usage examples:

From the calculated eigenfrequencies and eigenvectors, statistical measures of motion can be derived.

Meanings of Eigenfunction:

noun

Each of a set of independent functions which are the solutions to a given differential equation.

Usage examples:

In this thesis he studied the representation of arbitrary functions by the eigenfunctions of partia…

Meanings of Eigenstate:

noun

A quantum-mechanical state corresponding to an eigenvalue of a wave equation.

Usage examples:

Mathematica aside: it is fairly easy to see that superposing two eigenstates of o corresponding to …

Meanings of Eigenvalue:

noun

Each of a set of values of a parameter for which a differential equation has a non-zero solution (an eigenfunction) under given conditions.

Usage examples:

He showed that in this case the integral equation had real eigenvalues, and the solutions correspon…

Meanings of Eigenvalues:

noun

Each of a set of values of a parameter for which a differential equation has a non-zero solution (an eigenfunction) under given conditions.

Usage examples:

He showed that in this case the integral equation had real eigenvalues, and the solutions correspon…

Meanings of Eigenvectors:

noun

A vector which when operated on by a given operator gives a scalar multiple of itself.

Usage examples:

In a very natural way, concepts of linear algebra, including eigenvalues and eigenvectors, appear.

Meanings of Eight:

cardinal number

Equivalent to the product of two and four; one more than seven, or two less than ten; 8.

Usage examples:

A committee of eight members

number

8

Usage examples:

Eight people are coming to dinner.

Meanings of Eightball:

noun

A form of pool using two sets of seven coloured or patterned balls, together with one black ball and one white cue ball, the aim being to pocket all of one's own balls followed by the black, which is numbered eight.

Meanings of Eightballs:

noun

A form of pool using two sets of seven coloured or patterned balls, together with one black ball and one white cue ball, the aim being to pocket all of one's own balls followed by the black, which is numbered eight.

Meanings of Eighteen:

cardinal number

Equivalent to the product of two and nine; one more than seventeen, or eight more than ten; 18.

Usage examples:

She wrote eighteen novels

number

18

Usage examples:

There are eighteen glasses in the cabinet., an eighteen-hole golf course

Meanings of Eighteenmo:

noun

Another term for octodecimo.

Meanings of Eighteenmos:

noun

Another term for octodecimo.

Meanings of Eighteens:

cardinal number

Equivalent to the product of two and nine; one more than seventeen, or eight more than ten; 18.

Usage examples:

She wrote eighteen novels

Meanings of Eighteenth:

ordinal number

Constituting number eighteen in a sequence; 18th.

Usage examples:

The eighteenth century