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• m
  m

  abbreviation

  mass.
• 'm
  'm

  contraction of am.
• M
  M

  noun

  the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
• M'-
  M'-

  variant of Mac-.
• m-
  m-

  meta-.
• M-
  M-

  (used to designate the production model of military equipment, as the M-1 rifle.)
• m.
  m.

  abbreviation

  noon.
• M.
  M.

  abbreviation

  noon.

m

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. Physics. mass.

2. Finance. (of bonds) matured.

3. medieval.

4. medium.

5. meter; meters.

6. middle.

7. Music. minor.

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m ² American  

Symbol, Electricity.

1. magnetic pole strength.

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'm ³ American  

[m] / m /

1. contraction of am.

   I'm not thirsty.

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M ⁴ American  

[em] / ɛm /

Or m

noun

• M's,
  plural
• Ms,
  plural
• m's,
  plural
• ms
  plural

1. the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.

2. any spoken sound represented by the letter M or m, as in my, summer, or him.

3. something having the shape of an M.

4. a written or printed representation of the letter M or m.

5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter M or m.

6. Printing. em.

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M ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. mach.

2. Music. major.

3. male.

4. married.

5. Medieval.

6. medium.

7. mega-.

8. Middle.

9. modal auxiliary.

10. modifier.

11. Economics. monetary aggregate: issued periodically by the Federal Reserve Board as various measures of money supply (M-1, M-1A, M-2, etc.).

12. British. motorway (used with a road number to designate a major highway).

    the M1.

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M ⁶ American  

Symbol.

1. the thirteenth in order or in a series.

2. (sometimes lowercase) the Roman numeral for 1000.

3. Electricity. magnetization.

4. Biochemistry. methionine.

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M'- ⁷ American  

1. variant of Mac-.

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m- ⁸ American  

1. meta-.

2. (referring especially to the use of wireless electronic devices) mobile.

   m-commerce; m-business.

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M- ⁹ American  

1. U.S. Military. (used to designate the production model of military equipment, as the M-1 rifle.)

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m. ¹⁰ American  

abbreviation

1. noon.

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m. ¹¹ American  

abbreviation

1. (in prescriptions) mix.

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m. ¹² American  

abbreviation

1. male.

2. (in Germany) mark; marks.

3. married.

4. masculine.

5. Physics. mass.

6. medium.

7. meter.

8. middle.

9. mile.

10. minute.

11. modification of.

12. modulus.

13. molar.

14. month.

15. moon.

16. morning.

17. mouth.

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M. ¹³ American  

Or m.

abbreviation

1. noon.

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M. ¹⁴ American  

abbreviation

• MM
  plural

1. Majesty.

2. Manitoba.

3. markka; markkaa.

4. Marquis.

5. Music. measure.

6. medicine.

7. medium.

8. meridian.

9. Monday.

10. Monsieur.

11. mountain.

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m ¹ British  

/ ɛm /

noun

1. the 13th letter and tenth consonant of the modern English alphabet

2. a speech sound represented by this letter, usually a bilabial nasal, as in mat

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'm ² British  

contraction

1. (verb) am

2. (noun) madam

   yes'm

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m ³ British  

symbol

1. metre(s)

2. mile(s)

3. milli-

4. minute(s)

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M ⁴ British  

symbol

1. mach

2. medium (size)

3. mega-

4. currency mark(s)

5. million

6. astronomy Messier catalogue; a catalogue published in 1784, in which 103 nebulae and clusters are listed using a numerical system

   M13 is the globular cluster in Hercules

7. Middle

8. physics modulus

9. (in Britain) motorway

   the M1 runs from London to Leeds

10. 1. mature audience (used to describe a category of film certified as suitable for viewing by anyone over the age of 15)

    2. ( as modifier )

       an M film

11. logic the middle term of a syllogism

12. physics mutual inductance

13. chem molar

14. 1000 See Roman numerals

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abbreviation

1. Malta (international car registration)

m- ⁵ British  

prefix

1. short for meta-

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M'- ⁶ British  

prefix

1. a variant of Mac-

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m- ⁷ British  

prefix

1. indicating the use of mobile-communications technology

   m-banking

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m. ⁸ British  

abbreviation

1. cricket maiden (over)

2. male

3. mare

4. married

5. masculine

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M. ⁹ British  

abbreviation

1. Majesty

2. (in titles) Member

3. million

4. Also: M. Monsieur

5. mountain

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m Scientific  

1. Abbreviation of mass, meter

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• M's
  plural
• Ms
  plural
• m's
  plural
• ms
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of m.¹⁰

From the Latin word merīdiēs

Origin of m.¹¹

From the Latin word misce

Origin of M.¹³

From the Latin word merīdiēs

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Example Sentences

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The wreckage was scattered across 37,000 sq m, the equivalent of five football pitches, as the plane collided with accommodation for medical students, and broke apart.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Here, E again represents energy, m is the particle's mass, and c is the speed of light.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

“I m not sure why he was sanctimonious and agressive when detailing the harvey weinstein allegations,” Epstein wrote. “now watching the overlay , its amazing.”

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026

Some species were small, squid-eating hunters measuring less than 1 m long, while others were enormous apex predators exceeding 5 m in length.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 30, 2025

“I m glad to see you, patron, ” she greeted me.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

This is what people say when I first tell them I ’m on the spectrum.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 7, 2022

“I miss him terribly, but not in the state that he was. He’s at peace, and I ‘m OK with that.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

I ’m not one to switch bags often, so I have just one that serves as many functions as a bag can have.

From The Verge ● Sep. 8, 2017

I ’m getting real sick of these phone calls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2016

Then I wrote a small ‘i’ and a small ‘m.’

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The city has already deployed goats to chomp away at invasive brush along the hillsides, but Cosgrove, who wrote Measure M, said more work is necessary to protect the community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

She is in a serious condition in hospital, city official Munkhbayar M told reporters.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The unveiling of the Beagle 2 plaque, located in the People Gallery at the M Shed, took place on Monday.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Leica still builds its cameras largely in Europe, producing just 45 of its top-selling M models a day at its Wetzlar factory, and has posted record sales in four of the past five years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“He wants to build the Tipped M into something even bigger than the Circle Ranch.”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

It is hence possible to employ crude cresol, which contains varying quantities of the o-, m-, and p-compounds, in the manufacture of these tanning matters.

From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser

Th-That was F-Father's idea of m-making m- m-merry.

From The Voyage of the Hoppergrass by Edmund Lester Pearson

Benzene, for instance, is easily converted into the m-disulphonic acid by gently heating with fuming sulphuric acid; stronger heating converts the m- into the p-disulphonic acid, and at 190° C. the trisulphonic acid is formed.

From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser

Similarly, condensation of different samples of crude cresol containing varying quantities of o-, m-, and p-cresol did not yield end-products sufficiently different to justify describing them in detail.

From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser

Same for the latest Apple M- and A-series chips, engines that can run AI models locally on iPhones—maybe why Apple hasn’t joined the AI data-center spending delirium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Another major irritant was introduced last August when the U.S. imposed a ban on the sale of sensitive technology to China, claiming Beijing had violated an international agreement by selling M- 11 missiles to Pakistan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soft- drink vendors hawked their wares as rebel soldiers slouched atop U.S.-made M- 41 tanks, idly awaiting victory.

From Time Magazine Archive

The M- | 11, with a range of about 180 miles, is capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

From Time Magazine Archive

After a half hour's wait we took a local for M-, the station near which the cinematograph picture had been taken.

From The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Tours: Tuesday through Saturday from 12:45 p.m. to 3 p. m., subject to availability.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2019

The launch party starts at 7 p. m., though the band will likely perform at around 8:30-9:30 p.m.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2017

Lobbying groups for bees remain small, but funding from groups such as Project Apis m., which has contributed $6 million toward bee research since 2006, is helping uncover methods to protect bee populations.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2016

Danielle Downey, director of operations for the nonprofit group Project Apis m., examines bees on a frame.

From National Geographic ● Jun. 27, 2016

And Faber was out; there in the deep valleys of the country somewhere the five a. m. bus was on its way from one desolation to another.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

Roosevelt had been James M. Cox’s vice-presidential pick on the ticket that lost to Harding in 1920.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"What's emerging here is a way to systematically identify meaningful subgroups within complex disease," says Eric Klee, Ph.D., co-senior author and the Everett J. and Jane M. Hauck Midwest Associate Director of Research and Innovation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Chun-Li, played by Liang, recruits the pair to compete with other elite fighters in the World Warrior tournament, organised by crime boss M. Bison.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The most well-thought-out example is a Foreign Affairs essay published in August by Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi, who served on the National Security Council during the Biden administration.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

One of her key contacts was F. J. M. Stratton, a famous English astronomer, so short and round and jolly that he reminded people of Santa Claus.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

In later scenes, M has died and S’s main conversation partner is an artificial-intelligence voice agent that was trained on M’s writing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The bulk of the book, especially the passages from M’s journals, are given to dewy philosophizing on the purpose of creation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

It was a feast day and everyone was celebrating, but M's daughter stayed in her room crying.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

A healthy Kirby could make a huge difference this season for an already formidable M’s rotation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

The M & M’s were thrown in the air, gone.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Jorgelina Andrea del Valle Torres, the Argentine neoperreo artist known as Ms Nina, also remembers those first parties affectionately.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Though Ms Nina’s “Tu Sicaria” makes its way onto the playlist some nights, his resident DJs mostly stick to the classics at their parties, and that’s intentional.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Ihnen asked the judge to allow Pike access to a phone so she can call her lawyers, and they can have "continuous liberal access to Ms Pike".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Friends also gave him an alibi for the night the Star had claimed he was enjoying the company of Ms Coghlan.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

I want to know what they’re going to talk about, but I can’t stay out here while Ms.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Why is it that the three m’s seem to have so much bipartisan appeal?

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2020

Part of the reason the m's haven't moved Ichiro is the poor hitting by Justin Smoak until very recently.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2012

Imagine if Ackley had just hesitated, held his ground and then the m's hit into an inning-ending double-play?

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2011

In Chinese, for example, the Methodist Episcopal Mission becomes, literally, "the doubly beautiful society," because there are two m's in M. E. M., and the Chinese pronounces m as "may," and "may" means "beautiful."

From Time Magazine Archive

I think I have hit off his m's and y's tolerably," said he, "considering I was not brought up to this sort of thing.

From Ernest Maltravers — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

In Australia, Surfshark’s ping times ranged from 281 to 422 ms, while NordVPN’s latency was lower — between 292 and 406 ms — based on test data.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

Upload speeds were generally stable, though ping times increased significantly on distant servers — reaching over 500 ms in Australia — which could introduce noticeable lag during gaming or video calls.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

When small creatures touch the fine trigger hairs on the outside of the door, it opens inwards within 0.5 ms.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024

What happens if we try to shut off the current rapidly, perhaps in only 1.0 ms?

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

She clung to ms hand, striving to detain him.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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