ELN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ELN mean? 

• ELN (noun)
  The noun ELN has 2 senses:

1. a Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution; responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade

2. a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s

  Familiarity information: ELN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution; responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ELN; National Liberation Army

Context example:

ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

CNPZ; ELN; National Liberation Army; Nestor Paz Zamora Commission

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Bolivia; Republic of Bolivia (a landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain)

 Context examples 

Human ELN wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 7q11.23 and is approximately 42 kb in length.

(ELN wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Elastin (786 aa, ~68 kDa) is encoded by the human ELN gene.

(Elastin, NCI Thesaurus)