ES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Es mean? 

• ES (noun)
  The noun ES has 1 sense:

1. a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons

  Familiarity information: ES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 99; E; einsteinium; Es

Hypernyms ("Es" is a kind of...):

metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)

 Context examples 

This project was started in 2008 under the leadership of Johan Thevelein (VIB-KU Leuven), Wim Versées (VIB-VUB) and Veerle Janssens (KU Leuven).

(Scientists Reveal The Relationship Between Sugar, Cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I had but to walk up to Wolstonbury in the war time to see the sails of the French chasse-marées and privateers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Initially, ten sensors will be set up this month at different points of Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, located about 600 km west of Manaus, midstream of the Solimões river.

(Amazon jungle animals to be monitored by sensors, Agência Brasil)

The findings are based on measurements of methane emissions taken from 2,300 trees spread across a number of locations surrounding the rivers Negro, Solimões, Amazonas and Tapajós — where the water level can flood trees by up to 10 metres.

(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)

“Ye-es. Barkis is willin'.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Ye-es,” he said, considering.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, "Why—ye-es" with very grave, hesitant faces.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)