Business / Taxes / Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT): Electronic benefits transfer, or EBT, is a system through which recipients of certain government benefits receive and spend funds electronically, using a plastic EBT card similar to a bank debit card. MORE
Business / Taxes / Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, And Retrieval System (EDGAR): EDGAR is an electronic database that contains all the corporate financial reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Any company with more than $10 million in assets and over 500 MORE
Technology / Home Audio / Electronic Shock Protection (ESP): An electronic circuit that stores the audio data stream from a CD or MD in a memory buffer. If the laser pick-up mistracks, audio still flows from the buffer preventing an interruption. MORE
Business / Taxes / Electronic Bill Presentment: If you pay bills online, you may be able to take advantage of electronic bill presentment, a paper-free method of reporting your outstanding charges and the amount due. The lender may either email you MORE
Science / Chemistry / Valence Electron: Electrons that can be actively involved in chemical change; usually electrons in the shell with the highest value of n. For example, sodium's ground state electron configuration is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s1; th MORE
Technology / Television (TV) / Electronic Guns: The device in the CRT that produces the electron beam that is attracted to the phosphors on the face of the CRT: this activates the phosphors thus causing them to emit red, green or blue light. MORE