en

plural ens

1. The name of the Latin script letter N/n.

   The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged

   1 more example

   I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

   2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170

2. mediaA unit of measurement equal to half an em (half the height of the type in use).

   That the price of work, paid for by letters be advanced from fourpence to fourpence halfpenny per thousand, including English and brevier; and, in leaded matter, the ems and ens at the beginnings and ends of the lines not to be reckoned in the width.

   1808, C[aleb] Stower, “An Account of the Different Advances in Journeymen’s Wages, from the Year 1785 to 1805, with the Present Regulations and Scale of Prices”, in The Compositor’s and Pressman’s Guide to the Art of Printing; […], London: […] [T]he Editor, […] for B[enjamin] Crosby and Co. […], →OCLC, page 419

1. Used in various phrases borrowed from French or formed as if borrowed from French (see "Derived terms" below).

1. NewfoundlanddialectalHim.

   Such a strappen fine gentleman as he was, too. Yes, I rather like en sometimes.

   1895, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes, page 236

2. NewfoundlanddialectalIt (when the thing being referred to is masculine).

plural ens

1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Н / н.

1. human sciencesThe Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle's best-known work on ethics.

plural ENs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of erythema nodosum.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of enrolled nurse.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehobbiesInitialism of empty net.

plural Ens

1. Alternative letter-case form of en.