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QM

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. Also Q.M. quartermaster.

  2. Physics. quantum mechanics.


q.m. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. (in prescriptions) every morning.


QM 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Quartermaster

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

q.m. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. quaque mane

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of q.m.

From Latin quoque matutino

Example Sentences

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It would expand lenders’ permissible sources to verify incomes beyond the relatively narrow range specified in current QM regulations.

From Washington Post Sep. 4, 2018

After all, as discussed above, QM offers no reason why the whole system—electrons, slits and detectors combined—wouldn’t be in an entangled superposition before someone looks at the detectors’ output.

From Scientific American May 29, 2018

Clearly, the laws of QM apply at all scales and substrates.

From Scientific American May 29, 2018

It turns out, however, that some predictions of QM are incompatible with non-contextuality even for a large and important class of non-local theories.

From Scientific American Apr. 19, 2018

This done I next went to the QM stores to get my kit sorted out.

From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by John Cox

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