Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation European currency unit
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the middle ages; especially, the triangular shield of no great length carried during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and hung around the neck by the guige, so as to cover the left arm and left side.
- noun The name of several gold and silver coins current in France from the fourteenth century onward, having a shield as part of their type: in English usually rendered crown.
- noun A Scotch gold coin, also called
crown , issued in the sixteenth century by James V. and by Mary, Queen of Scots. It was worth at the time of issue 20 shillings English. - noun In France, a sum of money, formerly consisting of three francs, now generally of five francs.
- noun A vegetable tracing-paper, 15x20 inches.
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- noun The
ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code forEcuador . - initialism European Currency Unit
- initialism Engine control unit
- initialism Electronic control unit
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Examples
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Call for LGBT participants in ECU survey about higher education
Call for LGBT participants in ECU survey about higher education 2008
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Call for LGBT participants in ECU survey about higher education « bird of paradox bird of paradox
Call for LGBT participants in ECU survey about higher education 2008
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« Call for LGBT participants in ECU survey about higher education
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The treaty envisions the creation of a common European currency no later than 1999 (called the ECU, it would replace national units like the German mark).
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The program, known as ECU HEAT, a ministry of churches involved in the Farmington Area Ecumenical Ministry, has raised more than $41,000 to help 521 people or more than 200 families.
Sun Journal 2010
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The N635S 5.8 is a tribute from Oliver Nowack to his father Hans, creator of world famed race and road engines and one of the inventors of what is nowadays called ECU-Tuning.
Autoblog 2010
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"The ECU is a good thing will be able to compensate for engine wear and tear automatically,"
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Again, there is precedent: the eurozone has had such a pooled currency before: the ECU was a basket of currencies.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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A computerized brain-often called the ECU, for Engine Control Unit-that regulates an engine's operation by monitoring certain engine characteristics (rpm, coolant temperature, intake airflow, etc.) through a network of sensors and then controlling key variables (fuel metering, spark timing, EGR, etc.) according to preprogrammed schedules.
Automotive News Blog at CARandDRIVER.com - Car News Resource 2009
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"Let us recall the ECU [European currency unit], which was not precisely a supernational currency but served as a monetary unit, as a unit of account in European Community countries before the introduction of euro as the main reserve currency,"
hugovk commented on the word ECU
ECU, n.
The Guardian, 4 October 2015:
October 15, 2015