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ETA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ETA mean?
• ETA (noun)
The noun ETA has 2 senses:
1. a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
2. the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet
Familiarity information: ETA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Basque Fatherland and Liberty; Basque Homeland and Freedom; ETA; Euskadi ta Askatasuna
Context example:
in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials
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:
Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("eta" is a kind of...):
alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)
Holonyms ("eta" is a member of...):
Greek alphabet (the alphabet used by ancient Greeks)
Context examples
As a selective antagonist of the endothelin-A (ETA) receptor, atrasentan binds selectively to the ETA receptor, which may result in inhibition of endothelin-induced angiogenesis and tumor cell proliferation.
(Atrasentan Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
DNA polymerase eta (713 aa, ~78 kDa) is encoded by the human POLH gene.
(DNA Polymerase Eta, NCI Thesaurus)
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