m

Multiple Entries:
  m    M    'm    m'    m-    metre    thousand  

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m

▶abbreviation

• 1 metre(s).

• 2 mile(s).

• 3 masculine.

• 4 (m-) Chemistry meta-.

• 5 milli-: 100 mA.

• 6 million(s).

• 7 married.

• 8 minute(s).

• 9 mare.

▶symbol Physics mass.

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M1 (also m)

▶noun (pl. Ms or M's)

• 1 the thirteenth letter of the alphabet.

• 2 denoting the next after L in a set of items, categories, etc.

• 3 the Roman numeral for 1,000. [from L. mille.]

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M2

▶abbreviation

• 1 Cricket (on scorecards) maiden over(s).

• 2 male.

• 3 Malta (international vehicle registration).

• 4 medium (as a clothes size).

• 5 mega-.

• 6 Astronomy Messier (catalogue of nebulae).

• 7 Chemistry (with reference to solutions) molar.

• 8 used with following numeral in measures of money supply.

• 9 Monsieur.

• 10 (in UK road designations) motorway.

▶symbol Physics mutual inductance.

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'm1

▶abbreviation informal am.

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'm2

▶noun informal madam.

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m'

▶possessive determiner Brit. short for my (representing the pronunciation used by lawyers in court to refer to or address the judge or a fellow barrister on the same side).

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m-

▶prefix denoting commercial activity conducted via mobile phones: m-commerce.

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metre1 (US meter) (abbrev.: m)

▶noun the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equal to 100 centimetres (approx. 39.37 inches).

– derivatives
metreage noun.

– origin C18: from Fr. mètre, from Gk metron ‘measure’.

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metre2 (US meter)

▶noun

• 1 the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line.

• 2 the basic rhythmic pattern of beats in a piece of music.

– origin OE, reinforced in ME by OFr. metre, from L. metrum, from Gk metron ‘measure’.

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thousand/ˈθaʊznd/

▶cardinal number (pl. thousands or (with numeral or quantifying word) same)

• 1 (a/one thousand) the number equivalent to the product of a hundred and ten; 1,000. (Roman numeral: m or M)

• 2 (thousands) informal an unspecified large number.

– derivatives
thousandfold adjective & adverb,
thousandth ordinal number.

– origin OE thūsend, of Gmc origin.