"EPS" meaning in English

See EPS in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} EPS
  1. (computing, publishing, file format) Initialism of Encapsulated PostScript: a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Encapsulated PostScript (extra: a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics)
    Sense id: en-EPS-en-name-0Fg7j0MF Categories (other): Computing, File formats, Publishing Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, media, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, publishing, sciences

Noun

Head templates: {{head|en|noun}} EPS
  1. Initialism of extrapyramidal symptoms. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: extrapyramidal symptoms
    Sense id: en-EPS-en-noun-xeCxETGq
  2. (manufacturing) Initialism of expanded polystyrene (“plastic foam”). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: expanded polystyrene (extra: plastic foam) Related terms (plastic foam): PS, XPS
    Sense id: en-EPS-en-noun-T4qOydES Categories (other): Manufacturing Topics: business, manufacturing Disambiguation of 'plastic foam': 1 80 3 3 12
  3. (finance) Initialism of earnings per share. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: earnings per share
    Sense id: en-EPS-en-noun-Cxv3-dWZ Categories (other): Finance Topics: business, finance
  4. (microbiology) Initialism of extracellular polymeric substance high-molecular weight compounds secreted by microorganisms. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: extracellular polymeric substance high-molecular weight compounds secreted by microorganisms
    Sense id: en-EPS-en-noun-TXv5WkmT Categories (other): Microbiology Topics: biology, microbiology, natural-sciences
  5. (marketing) Initialism of extended problem-solving. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: extended problem-solving Related terms: PDF [publishing, media], PS [publishing, media], PS1 [publishing, media], PS2 [publishing, media], PS3 [publishing, media]
    Sense id: en-EPS-en-noun-xlMvl6Gh Categories (other): Marketing, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 12 11 2 10 38 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 21 19 9 2 8 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 13 9 1 9 44 Topics: business, marketing
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "EPS",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "extrapyramidal symptoms"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of extrapyramidal symptoms."
      ],
      "id": "en-EPS-en-noun-xeCxETGq",
      "links": [
        [
          "extrapyramidal symptoms",
          "w:extrapyramidal symptoms"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "plastic foam",
          "word": "expanded polystyrene"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Manufacturing",
          "orig": "en:Manufacturing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of expanded polystyrene (“plastic foam”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-EPS-en-noun-T4qOydES",
      "links": [
        [
          "manufacturing",
          "manufacturing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "expanded",
          "expanded#English"
        ],
        [
          "polystyrene",
          "polystyrene#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(manufacturing) Initialism of expanded polystyrene (“plastic foam”)."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 80 3 3 12",
          "sense": "plastic foam",
          "word": "PS"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 80 3 3 12",
          "sense": "plastic foam",
          "word": "XPS"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "manufacturing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "earnings per share"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              149,
              152
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 January 2, “Ameris Bancorp (ABCB) Loses -9.76% in 4 Weeks, Here's Why a Trend Reversal May be Around the Corner”, in Yahoo! Finance, United States, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:",
          "text": "A strong agreement among sell-side analysts covering ABCB in raising earnings estimates for the current year has led to an increase in the consensus EPS estimate by 0.5% over the last 30 days.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of earnings per share."
      ],
      "id": "en-EPS-en-noun-Cxv3-dWZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "earnings per share",
          "w:earnings per share"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance) Initialism of earnings per share."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "extracellular polymeric substance high-molecular weight compounds secreted by microorganisms"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Microbiology",
          "orig": "en:Microbiology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of extracellular polymeric substance high-molecular weight compounds secreted by microorganisms."
      ],
      "id": "en-EPS-en-noun-TXv5WkmT",
      "links": [
        [
          "microbiology",
          "microbiology"
        ],
        [
          "extracellular polymeric substance",
          "w:extracellular polymeric substance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(microbiology) Initialism of extracellular polymeric substance high-molecular weight compounds secreted by microorganisms."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "extended problem-solving"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Marketing",
          "orig": "en:Marketing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 12 11 2 10 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 19 9 2 8 40",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 13 9 1 9 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of extended problem-solving."
      ],
      "id": "en-EPS-en-noun-xlMvl6Gh",
      "links": [
        [
          "marketing",
          "marketing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "extended problem-solving",
          "extended problem-solving#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(marketing) Initialism of extended problem-solving."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "19 12 1 11 57",
          "topics": [
            "publishing",
            "media"
          ],
          "word": "PDF"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "19 12 1 11 57",
          "topics": [
            "publishing",
            "media"
          ],
          "word": "PS"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "19 12 1 11 57",
          "topics": [
            "publishing",
            "media"
          ],
          "word": "PS1"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "19 12 1 11 57",
          "topics": [
            "publishing",
            "media"
          ],
          "word": "PS2"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "19 12 1 11 57",
          "topics": [
            "publishing",
            "media"
          ],
          "word": "PS3"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "marketing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "EPS"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "EPS",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics",
          "word": "Encapsulated PostScript"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "File formats",
          "orig": "en:File formats",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Publishing",
          "orig": "en:Publishing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of Encapsulated PostScript: a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics."
      ],
      "id": "en-EPS-en-name-0Fg7j0MF",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "publishing",
          "publishing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "file format",
          "file format"
        ],
        [
          "Encapsulated PostScript",
          "w:Encapsulated PostScript"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "file format",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, publishing, file format) Initialism of Encapsulated PostScript: a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "media",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "publishing",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "EPS"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "EPS",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "topics": [
        "publishing",
        "media"
      ],
      "word": "PDF"
    },
    {
      "topics": [
        "publishing",
        "media"
      ],
      "word": "PS"
    },
    {
      "topics": [
        "publishing",
        "media"
      ],
      "word": "PS1"
    },
    {
      "topics": [
        "publishing",
        "media"
      ],
      "word": "PS2"
    },
    {
      "topics": [
        "publishing",
        "media"
      ],
      "word": "PS3"
    },
    {
      "sense": "plastic foam",
      "word": "PS"
    },
    {
      "sense": "plastic foam",
      "word": "XPS"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "extrapyramidal symptoms"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of extrapyramidal symptoms."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "extrapyramidal symptoms",
          "w:extrapyramidal symptoms"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "plastic foam",
          "word": "expanded polystyrene"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "en:Manufacturing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of expanded polystyrene (“plastic foam”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "manufacturing",
          "manufacturing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "expanded",
          "expanded#English"
        ],
        [
          "polystyrene",
          "polystyrene#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(manufacturing) Initialism of expanded polystyrene (“plastic foam”)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "manufacturing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "earnings per share"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Finance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              149,
              152
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 January 2, “Ameris Bancorp (ABCB) Loses -9.76% in 4 Weeks, Here's Why a Trend Reversal May be Around the Corner”, in Yahoo! Finance, United States, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:",
          "text": "A strong agreement among sell-side analysts covering ABCB in raising earnings estimates for the current year has led to an increase in the consensus EPS estimate by 0.5% over the last 30 days.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of earnings per share."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "earnings per share",
          "w:earnings per share"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance) Initialism of earnings per share."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "extracellular polymeric substance high-molecular weight compounds secreted by microorganisms"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "en:Microbiology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of extracellular polymeric substance high-molecular weight compounds secreted by microorganisms."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "microbiology",
          "microbiology"
        ],
        [
          "extracellular polymeric substance",
          "w:extracellular polymeric substance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(microbiology) Initialism of extracellular polymeric substance high-molecular weight compounds secreted by microorganisms."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "extended problem-solving"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "en:Marketing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of extended problem-solving."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "marketing",
          "marketing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "extended problem-solving",
          "extended problem-solving#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(marketing) Initialism of extended problem-solving."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "marketing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "EPS"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "EPS",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics",
          "word": "Encapsulated PostScript"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "en:Computing",
        "en:File formats",
        "en:Publishing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of Encapsulated PostScript: a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "publishing",
          "publishing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "file format",
          "file format"
        ],
        [
          "Encapsulated PostScript",
          "w:Encapsulated PostScript"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "file format",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, publishing, file format) Initialism of Encapsulated PostScript: a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "media",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "publishing",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "EPS"
}

Download raw JSONL data for EPS meaning in English (4.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.