ETA
noun
1.
a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create on independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
- “in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials”
Origin
From Japanese 穢多 (“full of filth”) (literal translation, now considered derogatory in Japan).
Phrases
- Dirichlet eta function
- eta conversion
- eta meson
- eta prime
- eta reduction
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