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The estimated time of arrival is the time when a ship, vehicle, aircraft, cargo, emergency service, or person is expected to arrive at a certain place.

What does ETA mean in a text?

or ETA. abbreviation. estimated time of arrival.

What is ETA example?

A: ETA means Estimated Time of Arrival. It’s usually used for vehicles going to a destination, but we weaseled it in to mean basically «when.» So in that example, it’s asking «Does anybody know *when* the fix will be on the current issue.» … Q: The ETA at Nagoya is 19:51.

What does ETA mean Facebook?

ETA – Estimated Time of Arrival.

What ETD means?

Estimated Time of Departure (ETD)

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What does ETA look like?

Eta (uppercase/lowercase Η η) is a letter of the Greek alphabet. In very early Greek writing it stood for the consonant sound «h», but in Classical Greek it stood for a long vowel «e». In Modern Greek, it is pronounced as «i». In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 8.

Is ETA in the English dictionary?

ETA | Business English

abbreviation for estimated time of arrival: the time you expect to arrive: I’ll call you when my flight lands and give you an ETA.

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Acronym. Definition. ETA. Estimated Time of Arrival (also seen as ETOA)

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Greek Letter Omega

The 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet, Omega (Ω), essentially means the end of something, the last, the ultimate limit of a set, or the «Great End.» Without getting into a lesson in Greek, Omega signifies a grand closure, like the conclusion of a large-scale event.

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What alphabet has ETA?

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1. «Estimated Time of Arrival» abbreviated. Sounds officious or military when spoken out loud.

2. «Edited To Add» abbreviated. Used frequently by bloggers when adding something to a post.

3. «Euskadi Ta Akatasuna», or Eta (pronounced «eh-ta»). A paramilitary organisation based in northern Spain which uses terrorism to push for Basque independence.

1. «Our ETA is five o’clock.»

2. «ETA: I just found out that what I wrote above isn’t true.»

3. «Eta were involved in a terrorist attack on the Spanish Parliament building in Madrid.»

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Euskadi Ta Askatasuna; an organization of militant Basque nationalists attempting to gain independence for the Basques, especially those ruled by Spain, until a cease-fire in 1998, by means of guerrilla warfare.

The ETA was organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain’s western Pyrenees; «in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials.»

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Does «ETA» stand for «Estimated Time to Arrival» or «Estimated Time of Arrival»? I most commonly hear phrases like «ETA 20 minutes», but I’ve also heard «ETA 4:30 PM». Is one usage correct and the other wrong, or are both okay?

asked Feb 22, 2013 at 5:03

ETA appears to be defined as the estimated time of arrival.

It’s fine to use either format. ETA is used to answer the question, «When is X expected to arrive?«, which can be answered either as, «In 20 minutes» or «At 4:30 PM». In other words, either usage is correct.

answered Feb 22, 2013 at 5:25

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It’s of, but that doesn’t matter, because that allows both uses.

The estimated time of arrival is 10:37.

Fine, it’s estimated that the person, item, etc. will arrive at 10:37.

The estimated time of arrival is 20minutes.

Fine, there’s an implied context of the current time, so it’s the same as «The estimated time of arrival is 20minutes from now.»

answered Feb 22, 2013 at 10:57

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Hello!

I know that ETA means «estimated time of arrival», but in the context I got, it seems to me that it is the time somebody leaves.
It is a movie and a boy is going camping with his family. They are in front of the house preparing to leave, when his friend comes and asks: «What’s your ETA?» And the boy answers: «In the black in T minus two minutes.»
I don’t think thay can get to wherever they are going in two minutes (othervise they wouldn’t go by car, as they do). It seems to me that the friend is asking «When do you leave?», but why would he say ETA then? What do you think?

I think «In the black in T minus two minutes» is an odd thing to say. I wouldn’t have the first idea what the boy meant.

Are you sure you’ve got that down right, Hole?

Either they are playing around with the word/phrase and don’t really know how to use it, or it really does only take two minutes to get there in the car (which may take forever on foot, who knows?).
I also have no idea what «in the black» means so that might change the meaning a bit.

EDIT: I just looked up «in the black» and could only find that it means «in a profitable state» in a business (opposite of «in the red»). I still have no idea why two little boys would be talking about business. I’m going to follow Thomas’ suit and ask if you’re sure you heard that right? What movie is it? Do these boys usually fool around/play with the language?

Yes, i believe here it’s referring to «How long until you’re ready?» Which is also commonly used.

Often when waiting for somebody you may ask «Hey buddy, what’s the ETA?» And the other person may respond «I’ll be ready in five minutes.»

In this sense it’s the «estimated time of arrival» of «being ready». I’ve never really thought about it before… interesting…

I’m probably over-analysing it, but if they’re going camping could «What’s your ETA?» not mean «What’s your estimated time of arrival at the car? (so we can leave)»?

First of all, thanks for the quick reply! I will listen to it again (and again and again ) but I do have the script and that’s what it says. And as far as «in the black» is concerned, I don’t know what it means either and I wanted to start a new thread asking that, but now I think it’s pointless, since you don’t know… I think I’ll go with «When do you leave?» «In approximately two minutes.»
And yes, the movie is full of word plays, this is probably one of them (that even native speakers don’t get )

Suppose ‘in the black’ means ‘ready‘ in this context. ‘T minus two’ means two minutes ago, surely? In two minutes’ time would be T plus two, wouldn’t it?

Is this boy saying he was ready two minutes previously? But that suggestion is contradicted by the use of ‘in‘.

One possibility is that T is the time they agreed, in which case T minus two would mean two minutes before T. So the boy would mean «I’ll be ready two minutes before the time we agreed». That would make sense.

But isn’t «T minus» supposed to mean countdown? Then «in two minutes» would make sense (to me)

But isn’t «T minus» supposed to mean countdown? Then «in two minutes» would make sense (to me)

->——>——->—-T—>———>——>——

Suppose time is indicated as moving from left to right across the page and T is the moment of reference. T minus 2 is surely two minutes to the left, i.e. before, T. T plus 2 is two minutes to the right, i.e. after T.

The phrase «T minus» was popularized by the U.S. space program. Television viewers listened to the launch countdown as somebody intoned phrases like «T minus one and counting.»

«ETA,» like many other initials and terms, probably is not immune from corruption by people who have no idea what it means, but just use it to sound trendy. I suspect that’s the case here.

The only meaning I know for «in the black» is related to targets on conventional rifle or pistol ranges where scoring rings are concentric and a ’10’ being the highest value. In order to provide an aiming point, the highest-value rings are black. Sometimes that’s the 8, 9 and 10 rings and sometimes just the 9 and 10 rings. As a result, one goal of shooters is to «keep ’em in the black.»

Understanding «trend-speak» of the clueless, which you often see in motion pictures, can be difficult.

Back up in post #3 yourfairlady suggested:
Either they are playing around with the word/phrase and don’t really know how to use it, …

As ETA and in T minus two minutes appear to be used incorrectly and in the black is a mystery, I think there is a lot to be said for this theory. The boys are simply parroting words and expressions that they have heard, but not understood.

It is, of course, only a theory

When I first read «in the black» I assumed it meant «in the car» and he just said it because it was a black car. This is a very big stretch and not used at all (cars are never called by their colors), but like I said if they boys were playing with the language this could be another result. Was the car black?

A wild thought about «In the black». I’m too old to be familiar with video games in any significant way. However, of the early ones I do recall, there are some «on-screen meters» of hit points and health points and strength points etc. If you are in danger of dying from a lack of any of these the meter would turn red or flash or something. Finding objects to restore the points was part of the game and the meter would change colour as you point counts improved. In some games, just waiting would let the point count creep up. Could this be a term for being obliged to wait until something happens before going on with the day?? Perhaps our younger members could chime in . It could also just be «code» within a small group of kids.

ETA is used extensively in the airline business to mean estimated time of arrival.
ETD is used also, to mean estimated time of departure (duh).

I like the theory, in this thread, that the kids are using expressions they don’t even understand.

Yeah, Julian, I agree with the explanation that it is the kids’ code.

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Well, maybe this post is going to be out of case, but I got interested in the search for the meaning of the sentences in question:

A: What’s your ETA?
B: In the black in T minus two minutes.

Here is my theory:

— «ETA» stands for, as many of you wrote, «estimate time of arrival» (to the campsite).
— «In the black», as posts #3 and #10 suggest (though I love the theory in post #14), conveys something as ‘in the best situation’.
— «T minus two minutes», as post #9 suggests, means ‘two minutes ago’.

So, kid B could be being ironical about the time he and his family should have arrived to the campsite (thing that he would have liked), but they didn’t because of some delay. Then, boy could be saying something like ‘we should have been there already’,
the irony conveying some of his discontent.

Now, for this to be valid, there should be some clue in the movie that they are departing late and/or that the boy is sort of eager to go to the camp; but it’s what I could come up with with the available information.

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