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Electronic data capture (EDC)nounMWEProcess used for capturing and transferring the encoded information on the magnetic strip from a bankcard or debit card at the point-of-sale to the processor's database.ProcessRegulatedPCI
Electronic Data ProcessingnounMWEautomatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapesverified
Electronic DeceptionnounMWEthe deliberate use of electromagnetic energy in a manner intended to convey misleading informationverified
Electronic EquipmentnounMWEequipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor)verified
Electronic EvidencenounMWEInformation and data of investigative value that is stored on or transmitted by an electronic device.ArtifactRegulated
Electronic Fetal MonitornounMWEan electronic monitor that monitors fetal heartbeat and the mother's uterine contractions during childbirthverified
Electronic Foetal MonitornounMWEan electronic monitor that monitors fetal heartbeat and the mother's uterine contractions during childbirthverified
electronic funds transfernounMWEThe use of telecommunications networks to transfer funds from one financial institution, as a bank, to another, or to withdraw funds from one's own account to deposit in a creditor's.ProcessRegulatedPCI
Electronic funds transfer (EFT)nounMWEA generic term describing any transfer of funds between parties or depository institutions through electronic data systems.ProcessRegulatedPCI
Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA)nounMWEThe Electronic Funds Transfer Act and Regulation E are designed to ensure adequate disclosure of basic terms, costs, and rights relating to electronic fund transfer (EFT) services provided to consumers. Institutions offering EFT services must disclose to consumers certain information, including: initial and updated EFT terms, transaction information, periodic statements of activity, the consumer's potential liability for unauthorized transfers, and error resolution rights and procedures. EFT services include automated teller machines, telephone bill payment, point-of-sale transfers in retail stores, fund transfers initiated through the Internet, and pre-authorized transfers to or from a consumer's account.FrameworkRegulated
electronic funds transfer activitynounMWEAny transfer of funds which is initiated through an electronic terminal, telephonic instrument, computer, or magnetic tape so as to order, instruct, or authorize a financial institution to debit or credit an account. ... These are normally considered retail funds transfer systems.DataRegulatedPCI
electronic funds transfer functionnounMWEAny activity that corresponds with or relates to the transfer of funds electronicallyCapabilityRegulated
Electronic funds transfer point of sale equipmentnounMWEAny, instruments or machinery required for an electric transfer of money to take place.PhysicalRegulatedPCI
Electronic ImagenounMWEan image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixelsverified
Electronic Imitative DeceptionnounMWEthe introduction of electromagnetic energy into enemy systems that imitates enemy emissionsverified
Electronic Information ServicenounMWE(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computersverified
Electronic JammingnounMWEdeliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systemsverified
Electronic Key EntrynounMWEThe entry of cryptographic keys into a cryptographic module using electronic methods such as a smart card or a key-loading device. (The operator of the key may have no knowledge of the value of the key being entered.)ProcessRegulatedCUI
Electronic Key Management SystemnounMWEInteroperable collection of systems being developed by services and agencies of the U.S. government to automate the planning, ordering, generating, distributing, storing, filling, using, and destroying of electronic key and management of other types of COMSEC material.SystemRegulatedCUI
Electronic MailnounMWE(computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs inverified
Electronic Manipulative DeceptionnounMWEactions to eliminate revealing telltale indicators that could be used by the enemy (or to convey misleading indicators)verified
Electronic Messaging ServicesnounMWEServices providing interpersonal messaging capability; meeting specific functional, management, and technical requirements; and yielding a business-quality electronic mail service suitable for the conduct of official government business.CapabilityRegulatedCUI
Electronic Musical InstrumentnounMWEa musical instrument that generates sounds electronicallyverified
Electronic ReconnaissancenounMWEthe detection and identification and evaluation and location of foreign electromagnetic radiations (other than radioactive)verified
Electronic ScannernounMWEa radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or conditionverified
Electronic Security PerimeternounMWEThe logical border surrounding a network to which Critical Cyber Assets are connected and for which access is controlled.NetworkRegulatedCUI
electronic signaturenounMWEThe process of applying any mark in electronic form with the intent to sign a data object. See also Digital Signature.CredentialRegulated
Electronic Simulative DeceptionnounMWEactions to represent friendly notional or actual capabilities to mislead hostile forcesverified
Electronic StylusnounMWEa pointer that when pointed at a computer display senses whether or not the spot is illuminatedverified
Electronic TextnounMWEtext that is in a form that computer can store or display on a computer screenverified
Electronic vaultingnounMWEA back-up procedure that copies changed files and transmits them to an off-site location using a batch process.ProcessRegulated
Electronic WarfarenounMWEmilitary action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrumverified
Electronic Warfare-Support MeasuresnounMWEelectronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognitionverified
Electronically Generated KeynounMWEKey generated in a COMSEC device by introducing (either mechanically or electronically) a seed key into the device and then using the seed, together with a software algorithm stored in the device, to produce the desired key.CredentialRegulatedCUI
Electronically-created payment ordersnounMWEThese are payment orders received by merchants from consumers, typically by telephone or the Internet. These payment orders are processed through the check processing system although they were not initiated as paper checks. These payment orders are not subject to check law and are not warranted by the Federal Reserve Banks.DataRegulatedPCI
Electronicsnounthe branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devicesverified
Electronics IntelligencenounMWEintelligence derived from electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources)verified
Electrophoresisnounthe motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric fieldverified
Electrophorusnouna simple electrostatic generator that generates repeated charges of static electricityverified
Electroretinogramnouna graphical recording of the electrical activity of the retina that results when light is flashed into the eyeverified
Electroshocknounthe administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and comaverified
Electroshock TherapynounMWEthe administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and comaverified
Electrosleepnoununconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brainverified
Electrostatic BondnounMWEa chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains an electron to form a negative ionverified
Electrostatic ChargenounMWEthe electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body which establishes and adjacent electrostatic fieldverified
Electrostatic GeneratornounMWEelectrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricityverified
Electrostatic MachinenounMWEelectrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricityverified
Electrostatic PrecipitationnounMWEa process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage electrostatic charge to the particles and collecting them on charged platesverified
Electrostatic PrecipitatornounMWEremoves dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitationverified
Electrostatic PrinternounMWEa printer that uses an electric charge to deposit toner on paperverified
Electrostatic UnitnounMWEany of various units of electricity based on forces of interaction between electric chargesverified
Electrotherapynounthe therapeutic application of electricity to the body, as in the treatment of various forms of paralysisverified
Electrovalent BondnounMWEa chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains an electron to form a negative ionverified
Elegancenouna quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem, especially in science or mathematicsverified
Elegant BrodiaeanounMWEbrodiaea having an umbel of violet or blue-violet flowers atop a leafless stalkverified
Elegant Cat's EarsnounMWEsmall plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's earsverified
Elegant HabenarianounMWEslender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowersverified
Elementnounany of the more than 100 known substances, of which 92 occur naturally, that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matterverified
Elementary EducationnounMWEeducation in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade schoolverified
Elephant SealnounMWEeither of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunksverified
Elephant TreenounMWEsmall tree or shrub of the southwestern United States having a spicy odor and odd-pinnate leaves and small clusters of white flowersverified
Elephant YamnounMWEputrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuberverified
Elephant-Tusknounannual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beakverified
Elephant's EarnounMWEtropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruitsverified
Elephant's-FootnounSouth African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured barkverified
Elephantiasis ScrotinounMWEswelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstructionverified