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id est (i.e.) = that is (literally "it is")

exempli gratia (e.g.) = for the sake of example, for example

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases



Thanks.

Coincidentally, I had years of Latin so I knew those, but thought this had some other contextual meaning, a name of something (like IE for Internet Explorer). Apparently not!




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