单词 | esn |
释义 | > as lemmasESN ESN n. and adj. British (Education and Psychology) now historical educationally subnormal, (a) n. people or children having a below average level of education or intelligence, regarded collectively; spec. children having learning difficulties and considered unsuitable for mainstream schooling; (b) adj. designating such people or children.No longer the preferred term and often considered offensive. ΚΠ 1952 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Jan. 216/1 Special school for E.S.N. 1955 Special Schools Jrnl. June 13/2 I have a strong conviction that Mary is not E.S.N. at all. On the orthodox tests of intelligence she certainly gains a score which puts her in the upper level of the E.S.N. group. 1981 H. Jolly Bk. Child Care (new ed.) xlix. 543 A child placed in an ESN (severe) school might later be able to be moved to an ESN (mild) school. 1991 Times 8 June 21/5 Clone-like myrmidon thugs beating on the roof and terrorising the ESN children. 2014 Guardian 28 Jan. (Nexis) (Obituaries section) 39 She was active in the National Union of Teachers and in the adult literacy programme, and campaigned against placing misunderstood children in ESN (Educationally Subnormal) schools. ESN ESN n. Telecommunications electronic serial number, a unique serial number that is programmed into certain types of mobile phone and transmitted each time a call is made, used to identify the phone to the network over which the call is being made.Electronic serial numbers are typically used with mobile phones that use CDMA (Code-division multiple access) technology, other technologies having their own systems of identifiers. ΚΠ 1987 Cellular Phone Fraud Busts in N.Y. in mod.telecom (Usenet newsgroup) 27 Mar. The mobile carriers make a computer check of the E.S.N. to see if it is valid. If it is, the call goes through and the cost is billed to the billing number provided by the M.I.N. chip. 1994 New Scientist 3 Dec. 52/1 Re-chipping a phone is easy because the ESN is stored in erasable memory chips, instead of write once (WORM) chips. 2013 Daily Mail (Nexis) 3 May Keep a separate record of your electronic serial number (ESN) and consider separate insurance. < as lemmas |
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