(informal, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of ate, the simple past tense and past participle of eat

(uncountable) Initialism of Eastern Time (-5 hours to GMT). / (countable) Abbreviation of extraterrestrial. / (music, countable) Initialism of escape tone.

Used to form diminutives, loosely construed.

(chemistry) Abbreviation of ethyl. (-C₂H₅)

(economics) Initialism of emissions trading scheme. / (medicine) Initialism of environmental tobacco smoke. / (military, US) Initialism of end of term of service or expiration of term of service.

Initialism of Educational Testing Service: the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization, founded in 1947.

plural of ET

(uncommon) The full form of etc.: and so forth, and the rest.

Something in addition, which can easily be understood.

And others; to complete a list, especially of persons, as authors of a published work.