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n. A person supposed to have paranormal abilities.
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Esper or Espers may refer to:
Esper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Duke Esper (1868–1910), American professional baseball player
- Dwain Esper (1892–1982), American film director and producer
- Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742–1810), German entomologist
- George Esper (1932–2012), American journalist
- Jan Esper (born 1968), Swiss scientist
- Michael Esper, American actor
Esper is an open-source Java-based software product for Complex event processing (CEP) and Event stream processing (ESP), that analyzes series of events for deriving conclusions from them.
Esper extends the SQL-92 standard for its engine and enterprise framework, providing Aggregate function, Pattern matching, event windowing and joining. Esper implements Event-driven programming and event-driven architecture.
Esper was created in 2006 by EsperTech Inc. It offers a Domain-specific language for processing events called Event Processing Language (EPL). EPL is a Declarative programming language for analyzing time-based event data and detecting situations as they occur.
Esper is a Java-based application but has been ported to the C# programming language and is available for the .NET Framework under the name NEsper.
EsperTech Inc. provides Esper Enterprise Edition with enterprise-ability features.
Usage examples of "esper".
Imperial troops screamed and fell from their craft as the fast-flying espers took their toll, sniping at unguarded targets, but the air force was just too big and unstoppable, and its targeting computers soon came on line, taking out the flying defenders one by one, for all their speed and courage.
The Empire sent down seasoned attack troops, battle espers, even adjusted men.
The Empire used espers harshly, which was why so many died or went rogue.
They fell upon the first two espers and tore them apart with their unnatural strength.
The maids leapt among the espers like wolves in the fold, tearing at defenseless flesh with their clawed hands and stuffing the bloody meat into their mouths.
Outlaws, rogue espers, criminals, trash and scum all ended up on the planet of eternal winter.
It was very quiet, very still, and he suddenly realized that the sleeping espers had stopped muttering.
The espers had raised their heads, and they were all looking at him, their faces cold and focused and entirely menacing.
Firstly, he had some idea of what he was getting into, and secondly, when he finally got around to opening up a Vault, he was going to be backed up by a full company of fifty marines, ten battle espers, and twenty Wampyr.
Investigator will go down with the espers, and then Stelmach and his Wampyr.
Silence and the Investigator accompanied the first batch of espers down and hoped for the best.
Frost hummed something cheerful as she set off to inspect the perimeter, and Silence moved the espers off to one side.
But, just in case, he briefed the espers on maintaining a full psionic screen, should it prove necessary.
Silence came next, with the espers, if only because he wanted to keep an eye on them.
Silence tried turning the esp-blockers off, to see if the espers could protect the team better, but they immediately became so hysterical he had to turn the esp-blockers back on to keep them from going insane.