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ESN

abbr.
electronic serial number
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ESN

abbreviation for
(Education) educationally subnormal; formerly used to designate a person of limited intelligence who needs special schooling
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(EARS), but EARS has recently transferred this business to ESN.
(EARS; Head office: Singapore; President: Hiroshi Kimura), but EARS has recently transferred this business to ESN.
In order to further improve these activities ESN is conducting a survey to investigate the current use of sensory analysis and consumer tests among food enterprises and food packaging.
Each tag was distinguished on the basis of a unique pulse burst by an automated tag-detecting monitor attached to the ESS and ESN detection stations.
Zaffron, who has worked in the home furnishings industry for more than 50 years, had been with ESN for more than 10 years.
However, in the case of Cellemetry Service, the Gateway sends back a validation response that reports the MIN and ESN as being valid, but that the customer cannot make or receive any telephone calls.
Anytime the phone is turned on, whether the owner is using it or not, a criminal can use an ESN reader to snatch the ESN-MIN combination literally right out of the air.
As an owner and user you cannot just demand that your phone is connected or reconnected to the service of your choice - the ESN has to be released by the service provider and in the past this has been used as a form of blackmail to prevent people switching services.
Within each cellular phone is an electronic component known as a number assignment module, which ties the ESN and MIN together.
Cloners use scanners to monitor calls and capture both the phone's number and the secret ESN.
* Unscrupulous employees at cellular phone dealers can copy your mobile identification number (MIN) and electronic serial number (ESN) from your customer agreement and supply them to cloners.
Every cellular phone transmits not only voices but also an electronic serial number (ESN) that tells the carrier which account to bill for the call.