"E number" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "E numbers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "E number (plural E numbers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "64 36",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The E number E100 represents turmeric."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a range of European abbreviations for food additives used on labels."
      ],
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        [
          "European",
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          "abbreviation",
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        [
          "food additive",
          "food additive"
        ],
        [
          "label",
          "label"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Deirdre Brennan, Maighread Medbh, Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Divas!",
          "text": "I finger Padre Pio paperweights and Our Lady of Knock sticks of rock that are packed with more e-numbers than could be safe at one sitting.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering",
          "text": "...how long it took corpses to go off these days, because everyone was so full of E-numbers and preservatives.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any such additive, often regarded as undesirable."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "undesirable",
          "undesirable"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, Ireland, informal) Any such additive, often regarded as undesirable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "Ireland",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
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  "wikipedia": [
    "E number"
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  "word": "E number"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "E numbers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "E number (plural E numbers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The E number E100 represents turmeric."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a range of European abbreviations for food additives used on labels."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "European",
          "European"
        ],
        [
          "abbreviation",
          "abbreviation"
        ],
        [
          "food additive",
          "food additive"
        ],
        [
          "label",
          "label"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "British English",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Deirdre Brennan, Maighread Medbh, Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Divas!",
          "text": "I finger Padre Pio paperweights and Our Lady of Knock sticks of rock that are packed with more e-numbers than could be safe at one sitting.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering",
          "text": "...how long it took corpses to go off these days, because everyone was so full of E-numbers and preservatives.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any such additive, often regarded as undesirable."
      ],
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          "undesirable",
          "undesirable"
        ]
      ],
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        "(British, Ireland, informal) Any such additive, often regarded as undesirable."
      ],
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        "British",
        "Ireland",
        "informal"
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    "E number"
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}