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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

Now that the most philosophically controversial predictions of QM have—finally—been experimentally confirmed without remaining loopholes, there are no excuses left for those who want to avoid confronting the implications of QM.

From Scientific American May 29, 2018

Although Einstein argued in 1935 that the contradiction arose merely because QM is incomplete, John Bell proved mathematically, in 1964, that the predictions of QM regarding entanglement cannot be accounted for by Einstein’s alleged incompleteness.

From Scientific American Apr. 19, 2018

So to salvage the current paradigm there is an important sense in which one has to reject the predictions of QM regarding entanglement.

From Scientific American Apr. 19, 2018

"You should have some idea, being in QM."

From Industrial Revolution by Anderson, Poul William

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