ESP
Encyclopedia
General use
- Extrasensory perception, a paranormal ability
- English for Specific PurposesEnglish for Specific PurposesEnglish for Specific Purposes is a sphere of teaching English language including Business English, Technical English, Scientific English, English for medical professionals, English for waiters, English for tourism, English for Art Purposes, etc...
, a subset of English language learning and teaching - Effective Sensory Projection, a term used in the Silva Method
- Empire State PlazaEmpire State PlazaThe Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza is a complex of several state government buildings in downtown Albany, New York....
in Albany, New York, U.S.A - Empire State PullersEmpire State PullersEmpire State Pullers, known to many of its pullers as ESP, is a truck and tractor pulling sanctioning body. It conducts pulls at circuits throughout New York State. ESP began sanctioning events in the Lucas Oil owned Pro Pulling League in 2007.-Classes:...
, a New York Tractor Pulling Circuit - Equally spaced polynomial in mathematics
- Extra-solar planet, a planet located outside the Solar System
Music
- E.S.P. (Miles Davis album)E.S.P. (Miles Davis album)Recorded in January 1965, E.S.P. is the first album by what is often referred to as Miles Davis's second great quintet. The quintet comprising Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams would be the most long-lived of all Davis's groups, and this was their first studio...
, 1965 album by Miles Davis - E.S.P. (Extra Sexual Persuasion)E.S.P. (Extra Sexual Persuasion)E.S.P. is a Millie Jackson album released in 1983. In addition to her signature soul music songs, it also includes somewhat more Hi-NRG and Funk dance song production popular at the time such as "This Girl Could Be Dangerous", "Sexercise" and the title track.-Track listing:# "E.S.P." – 3:58# "Too...
, 1983 album by soul singer Millie Jackson - E.S.P. (Bee Gees album)E.S.P. (Bee Gees album)E.S.P. is the Bee Gees' seventeenth original album. Released in 1987, it was the band's first studio album in six years, and the first album they released under their new contract with Warner Bros...
, 1987 album by the Bee Gees- "E.S.P." (Bee Gees song)E.S.P. (Bee Gees song)"E.S.P." was a single by the Bee Gees. Released in 1987, it was the follow-up to their highly successful single "You Win Again". The a cappella intro found on the album version was edited out for radio airplay.-Chart performance:...
, title track of the album
- "E.S.P." (Bee Gees song)
- ESP-DiskESP-DiskESP-Disk is a New York-based record label, founded in 1964 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.From the beginning, the label's goal has been to provide its recording artists with complete artistic freedom, unimpeded by any record company interference or commercial expectations—a philosophy summed-up by the...
, a 1960s free-jazz record label based in New York - "Inertiatic ESPInertiatic ESP"Inertiatic ESP" is the second song on The Mars Volta album, De-Loused in the Comatorium, released in 2003. "Inertiatic" in the title refers to the physical state of inertia...
", a 2004 song by The Mars Volta - ESP GuitarsESP Guitars, located in North Hollywood, California, is an American-based, Japanese-owned manufacturer of electric guitars and basses.- History :In 1975, Hisatake Shibuya opened a shop called Electric Sound Products in Tokyo. It provided custom replacement parts for guitars. In 1976, ESP gained a reputation...
, a manufacturer of electric guitars - The Electric Soft ParadeThe Electric Soft ParadeThe Electric Soft Parade are an English psych-pop band from Brighton, comprising brothers Alex and Thomas White, the creative core of the band, as well as a number of other musicians with whom they record and perform live, most recently including Andrew Mitchell and Damo Waters, as well as...
, a British band formed in 2001 - Eric Singer ProjectEric Singer ProjectEric Singer Project is an American rock band. ESP was founded in the 1990s by Eric Singer, drummer for such acts as Lita Ford, Black Sabbath, Badlands, Alice Cooper, and Kiss, along with it with Bruce Kulick on guitar, John Corabi on guitar and bass, and Karl Cochran on guitar and bass...
, side project founded in the 1990s by musician Eric Singer - E.S. PosthumusE.S. PosthumusUnearthed, the first album composed by E.S. Posthumus, was originally made available for purchase online through the CD Baby website in January 2001. It became the third-biggest selling album in CDBaby's history...
, an independent music group formed in 2000, that produces cinematic style music. - '"E.S.P.", 1988 song by Cacophony from their album Go Off!Go Off!Go Off! is the second and final studio album by Cacophony, released in 1988 through Shrapnel Records. A few years later, guitarist Jason Becker was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , rendering him completely unable to play to this day.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Peter Marrino –...
Computing
- E-mail service providerE-mail service providerOne type of email service provider is an organization which provides email servers to send, receive, and store email for other organizations and/or end users. Such an ESP may provide the service to the general public for personal email or it may provide the service only to its members One type...
, an organization offering e-mail services - Encapsulating Security Payload, an encryption protocol within the IPsec suite
- EscapadeEscapadeEscapade, or ESP for short, is a server-side scripting language that is designed to provide an easy interface to database contents. It was written in 1997 by Ed Carp and enjoys wide use in Europe, but has had limited acceptance in the United States...
, a server-side scripting language for database-to-web application - ESP GameESP GameThe ESP Game is an idea in computer science for addressing the problem of creating difficult metadata.The idea behind the game is to use the computational power of humans to perform a task that computers cannot yet do by packaging the task as a game.It was originally conceived by Luis von Ahn of...
, an online human computation game - Event Stream ProcessingEvent Stream ProcessingEvent stream processing, or ESP, is a set of technologies designed to assist the construction of event-driven information systems. ESP technologies include event visualization, event databases, event-driven middleware, and event processing languages, or complex event processing...
, technology that acts on data streams - Extended stack pointer in Intel IA-32 (x86/32-bit) assembler
- Psychology of programmingPsychology of programmingThe psychology of programming is the field of research that deals with the psychological aspects of writing programs . The field has also been called the empirical studies of programming ....
is sometimes referred to as "empirical study of programming" or ESP. - Elder Scrolls plugin, the .ESP file-format used in computer games such as Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Template:ESp 'Edit Semi Protected' - the choice of a graphic symbol for responding to semi protected requests on talk pages of MediaWiki.
Other technologies
- Electric Submersible Pump, an artificial lift system that electrically drives multiple centrifugal stage pumps to lift oil and water from wells
- Electro Selective PatternElectro Selective PatternDigital ESP-metering mode is used by some Olympus cameras . It measures the brightness of the center of the subject and the surrounding area separately....
, Olympus-proprietary metering technology for digital cameras - Electron spin trapping, a scientific technique
- Electronic skip protectionElectronic skip protectionElectronic skip protection is a memory buffer system used mainly in some portable Compact Disc players and all MiniDisc units.-Technology:...
in portable CD players - Electrostatic precipitatorElectrostatic precipitatorAn electrostatic precipitator , or electrostatic air cleaner is a particulate collection device that removes particles from a flowing gas using the force of an induced electrostatic charge...
, a device that removes particles from a flowing gas - External Stowage PlatformExternal Stowage PlatformExternal Stowage Platforms are key components of the International Space Station . Each ESP is an external pallet that can hold spare parts, also known as Orbital Replacement Units , for the space station. As a platform it is not pressurized, but does require electricity to power the heaters of...
, a type of cargo platform used on the International Space Station - Electronic Stability Program (see Electronic stability controlElectronic stability controlElectronic stability control is a computerized technology that may potentially improve the safety of a vehicle's stability by detecting and minimizing skids. When ESC detects loss of steering control, it automatically applies the brakes to help "steer" the vehicle where the driver intends to go...
), a computer device used in cars to improve traction - Equalizing Snoop Probe, a high-speed digital signal probe by Agilent
Business
- Easy Software ProductsEasy Software ProductsEasy Software Products is the vendor who originally invented the Common Unix Printing System and HTMLDOC software. It was founded near Washington, D.C. in 1993 and is now located in Morgan Hill, California. ESP sold CUPS to Apple Inc. in 2007 but still develops and sells its HTMLDOC...
, a software-development company, originator of the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) - Entertainment Software PublishingEntertainment Software PublishingEntertainment Software Publishing , or ESP, is a computer game publisher. It was created in 1997, primarily as a support company for the developer studios that made up GD-NET...
, a Japanese video-game publisher
Spain and Spanish
- Español, the Spanish language (non-ISO language code)
- ISO 3166-1ISO 3166-1 alpha-3ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...
, the 3-letter ISO code for Spain - Spanish pesetaSpanish pesetaThe peseta was the currency of Spain between 1869 and 2002. Along with the French franc, it was also a de facto currency used in Andorra .- Etymology :...
, the ISO 4217 code for the former currency of Spain
Literature
- ESP, the acronym for "Edd Smith's People" and "Edd Smith Place" in "The Pirate's Chest" bookstore in the fictional work The Cat Who Went BananasThe Cat Who Went BananasThe Cat Who Went Bananas is the 2005 novel in the Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun.- Plot introduction:Jim Qwilleran reviews the local play for the Moose County Something. Polly is busy with the grand opening of The Pirates Chest, a local bookstore funded by the K Fund...
honoring the bibliophile character Eddington Smith (volume 27 of the Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun)