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{{wiktionary|M|m}}
''']''' is the thirteenth letter of the ] and also the thirteenth letter in the english alphabet. It can also refer to the following.
''']''', or '''m''', is the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet.


'''M''' may also refer to:
==Miscellaneous abbreviations==
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* In ], '''M''' is often used as the abbreviation for the male sex in personal data records. Also commonly used in chat rooms.
* In ], '''M''' is often an abbreviation for Monday or for the ]s March or May.
* In ], '''M''' is the magnitude of the closed-loop frequency response.
* In ], and some English works by French authors, '''M.''' is an abbreviation for '']''.
* In ], '''M''' can mean "medium size". European clothing-size standard ] defines the size code M to refer to chest girths 94–102 cm for men's clothes and bust girths 90–98 cm for women's clothes. Manufacturers also use their own non-standard defining body measurements for this size code.
* In ], '''M''' designates an ], as in "an M8 screw".
* As an ], '''M''' means ] or master.


==Arts and popular culture== ==Companies and products==
* ], a 2008 fragrance by Mariah Carey
===Comic books===
* M-series rangefinder, a series of ]
*''']''' is a member of "]", a team of younger ]s affiliated with and coached by some of the former "]".
* ], a former virtual assistant in Facebook Messenger
*''']''' is a ] ].
* ] (NYSE: M), an American department store chain
*In the anime and manga ''']''', the online handle of ].
* ]
*'''M''' is the codename of the leader/head of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in the comics, who, in Sir Arthur Connan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, is know as Professor Moriarty
* ], a Canadian department store known simply as "M" from 1986 to 1992
* ], a code name for the Android Marshmallow operating system
* ], a subsidiary of car manufacturer BMW
* ], a tractor produced by International Harvester from 1939 to 1952
* ], a line of cars


==Numbers and units of measurement==
===Games===
* ], symbol m
*'''M''' is the ] rating symbol for Mature.
* ] (abbr.)
*'''M''' is the abbreviation for ], a ] character. He wears a red hat which has a red capital "M" on it.
* ]
*''']''' is the nickname of a certain glitch in the Pokémon video games, which takes the form of a wild pokémon.
* ], SI prefix m
*A player's "]" in poker is a measure of the health of his chip stack.
* ], Roman numeral M
* ], SI prefix M
* ] (abbr.)
* ], symbol m


==Postal codes==
===Transportation===
* M, the postal code letter for ] in Canada
*'''M''' is a ] line, the M train, which runs between Metropolitan Avenue in Queens, through Manhattan, to Bay Parkway in Brooklyn.
* ], a group of several postcode districts in Greater Manchester
* In each of New York City & Los Angeles County, "M" is often the dominant character in insignia representing each governmental public mass transit angency, both designated as "M. T. A." & "]"
*Any route in the ], ], ] and ] beginning with '''M''' designates the road is a ]
*A route belonging to the ] is referred locally as an '''M''' route (i.e. State Route 3 would be called M-3)


==Science and technology==
===Film===
* ], an obsolete recording format
* ], the codename of the fictional head of MI6 in the James Bond books and films
* ], a proposed solution for problems in superstring theories
* '']'', a 1931 film by Fritz Lang
* '']'', a remake of the 1931 film * ], radio frequencies from 60 to 100 GHz
* ] (symbol ''m'')
* '']'', a film by Hiroki Ryuichi
* ] (symbol ''m'')
* ''], a 2007 film by Lee Myung-se
* ], in astronomy
* M, a defunct rating in the ]
* ] (placeholder symbol M)
* M, a rating used by the Australian ]
* ], an alpha amino acid in biochemistry
* ], a now-defunct professional videocassette format
* ] (symbol ''m'')
* ], unit {{small caps|m}}
* ], (symbol ''M'')
* ] ''Musculo-skeletal system'', a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
* ], various scales of magnitude using variations of M
* ], represented by variable ''m'' in a linear equation


===Music=== ==Computing==
* M or ], the programming language underlying Mathematica
*'']'' is a 1973 book by avantgarde composer ].
* ".m", a ] or ] file
*''']''' is a song by ].
* ".m", a ] package
*''']''' is a techno-pop project of the artist ]; this project performed the 1979 #1 hit song "]".
* ".m", an implementation file in ]
*'''-M-''' is the artist name of the French singer ].
* M, the ] programming language
*'''"M"''' is the pseudonym for the American performance artist ], a Jazz vocalist hired by ]; see ].
* ]
*'''M''' can be a reference to rapper ].
* M-code or just M, ] programming language
*'''M''', a song by The Cure from their 1980 album '']''.
*] were a band popular in the 1990s.
*A lower-case '''m''' placed after a note name indicates a ] (e.g., Em for an E minor chord).
*M is a male Korean singer also known as ].


===Business=== ==Transportation==
* ], also known as M, a series of Japanese solid-fuelled carrier rockets
*'''M''' closely resembles the symbol of ], known as the ].
* ], sometimes called "Metro" and shortened to an M.
*''']''' is the debut ] from ] ].
* M, the prefix used for ]
*'''m''' is used on the candy coated choclates "m&ms" made by the Mars Corporation.
===Specific rail lines identified by the symbol "M"===
* ]
* ], San Francisco, U.S.
* ], Tokyo Metro
* ], Osaka Metro
* ], West Japan Railway Company


==Photography== ==Entertainment==
=== Characters ===
*In ], most ] cameras use '''M''' to signify manual mode, where the user sets both aperture and shutter speed.
* ], a character associated with the ''X-Men'' universe
* ], the codename of the fictional head of MI6
* ], a ''Chobits'' anime character


=== Film and television===
==Education==
* ], a German film directed by Fritz Lang
*In ]'s ] (NCEA), '''M''' stands for 'merit', the second highest of the four grades.
* ], a remake of the previous, shifting the action from Berlin to Los Angeles
* ''M'', a 2006 Japanese film directed by ]
* ], made in South Korea
* ], a film directed by Anna Eriksson, loosely inspired by the last days of Marilyn Monroe
* ], a documentary film directed by Yolande Zauberman about child abuse in Bnei Brak
* M, an obsolete film rating in the American ]
* M, films recommended for mature audiences in the Australian ]
*M, the production code for the 1965 ''Doctor Who'' serial '']''
* ], a Brazilian television network from 1983 to 1999
* ], a 2024 television adaptation of '']''


=== Print publications ===
==Finance==
* ], a Norwegian comic strip
* In common references to ], '''M''' or '''m''' denotes ] or millions, such as $25M (twenty-five million dollars).
* ], a 1973 book by avant garde composer John Cage
* In traditional ] practice, M designates thousand or thousands (from the Latin ''mille''), and MM is used for million. Hence such traditional abbreviations as CPM for cost per thousand items of a retail good, or MCF for thousand cubic feet of (''e.g.'') ].
* ], a 1998 book by Peter Robb about the Italian painter Caravaggio
* In ], '''M''' is usually used to represent ].
* ], a monthly teenage magazine published by Bauer Media Group
* Script capital M (Unicode 0x2133 '''ℳ''') denotes the old German currency ].
* '']'', a 2018 historical novel by Antonio Scurati
* M is the symbol for ] department stores on the ]


=== Video games ===
==Geographical abbreviations==
* M, short for Mature, a rating used by the ] to denote that a video game contains mature content
* In ], '''M''' stands for ].
* As the first letter of a ]:
** In ], '''M''' stands for the ].
** In the ], '''M''' stands for ].
* In ]communication, '''M''' is one of the ]es allocated to the ].
* In ], the ] is often abbreviated to '''M'''.


==Grammar and Language== === Music ===
==== Performers ====
* '''M''' is often the abbreviation for the masculine ].
* ], a British techno-pop project of the artist Robin Scott
* ] represents a bilabial nasal in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
* ], French singer (stage name "-M-")
* ] is the reconstructed name, ] and vocalisation of the sigil or ] depicted by the ]: M.
* ], Korean singer (stage name "M")
* ], American singer and performance artist (stage name "M")


==Military== ==== Albums ====
* ], 1981
* '''M''' is the United States military designation for the word "]" "Model" in weapons, vehicles and other equipment, but not military aircraft. Started use in the early to mid 1930's. Prior usage was the word '''Model of''' with the year of adoption or standardization. The correct current usage is with the letter M and then the number assigned, ''e.g''. ], ''etc.''
* ], 2015
* In war time, the letter '''M''' is often written on the forehead of casualties to alert medics that the patient has been given ].
* ], 2015
* In the ], M is "Mike".
* The NATO ] ranges from 60 to 100 GHz.
* '''M''' is an abbreviation for the Russian design bureau ].


==== Songs ====
==Science, computing and industry==
* ], a 2000 song by Ayumi Hamasaki
===Astronomy===
* "M", a song by Chantal Kreviazuk from her album '']''
* In ], M is an abbreviation for "Messier" in designations for the ].
* "M", a song by The Cure from their 1980 album '']''
* M stands for a reddish ] in the Morgan-Keenan system.
* "M", a song by Princess Princess from the 1989 album '']''
* M stands for a June 16 through 30 discovery, in the provisional designation of a comet (e.g. ], the Great Comet of 1860) or asteroid (e.g. {{mpl|(4314) 1979 ML|3}}).
* ], a 2015 song by ASAP Rocky
* M would stand for ], in the ] of any ring or natural satellite discovered around it.


===Biochemistry=== ==Other uses==
* ], a hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
* In ], M is the symbol for ].
* ], a hypothetical source document for the Gospel of Matthew
* ], a Swedish political party
* ], subject of a famous child custody battle
* {{IPA|m}}, the ] symbol for a ] sound
* ], a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
* ], a measure of the health of a player's chip stack in poker
* \m/, a common way of typing ] or devil's horns
* ''{{'}}m'', contraction of ''am'', part of the English copular verb '']''
* M, the symbol for the old German currency ]
* m, the masculine ]
* m or M, the ] gender
* M., the abbreviation for ]
* M., the regnal year abbreviation for ] following her marriage to Philip II of Spain
* m., ]
* m. or man., an abbreviation for the ] (currency)
* m., short for ], a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats
* 𝕸, the ], the authoritative Hebrew text of the Tanakh
* Mike, the ] for UTC+12:00
* ] (1902–1968), member of the Brazilian Communist Party


===Chemistry=== ==See also==
* ]
*M is the symbol for the ] of solutions.
* ]
*m is the symbol for the ] of compounds.
* ]
*''m'' is the symbol for the ] of a compound.
* ] (mu; {{langx|grc|Μ|link=no}} / {{langx|el|μ|link=no}})
*''M'' is the symbol for the ] of an element or compound.
* ]
*m is the ], the third of the set of ] used to describe ]s.


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===Colour===
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* In the ] ], M stands for the colour ].
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===Computing===
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* '''M''', when used as a ], means 2<sup>20</sup> = 1,048,576 (] M as a metric prefix below, and the prefix ]: Mi).
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* '''M''' is another name for the computer programming language ].
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* M-code, or just M, is the ] programming language.
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* On Misplaced Pages "m" can represent "]"
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===Genetics===
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* ] is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
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* ] is a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup.
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===Mathematics===
* '''m''' is used to denote ] in ]. An M-set is the opposite of a ].
* Script capital '''M''' (Unicode 0x2133 ℳ) denotes a ].
* In the 1973 ''Handbook of Integer Sequences'' (a printed predecessor of the ]) sequences were numbered in lexicographic order prefixed by the letter '''M'''. Some older mathematical papers use these M numbers.

===Measurement===
*M (]) is an ] denoting 10<sup>6</sup> = 1,000,000 (one ]) (cf. M in computing above)
*m (]) is an SI prefix meaning 1/1000.
*m denotes ] (or meter), the ] for length.
*m is a widely used abbreviation for ], as seen, for example, on road signs in the UK. In such instances, the metre is usually abbreviated as 'mtr' or similar to avoid confusion with miles.

===Physics===
* M or m represents ].
* ] is a proposed solution for problems in ].
* Script capital M (Unicode 0x2133 ℳ) denotes a ].
* Upper-case M represents ].
*M is the center of a rectangular face of the ] of a hexagonal lattice.

===Printing===
* A capital M with a strikethrough (<strike>M</strike>) is used in the printing industry to denote one thousand, as in run quantity. For example, 4<strike>M</strike> is the equivalent of 4,000.
===Automotive===
*M is the symbol for the ] Motor Corporation's M family of engines. They were used from the 1960s through the 1990s. The M family were Toyota's most prestigious engines (apart from the uncommon V family V8) for 30 years. They were commonly found on the large Toyota Crown, Cressida, Celica Supra, and Supra models.

*M is the symbol for the high end performance ] cars: M1, M3, M5, M6, Z3 M and the new Z4 M.

===Medicine===
*In a ], M means ''misce'' (Latin for "mix").

==Roman uses of M==
* In the ], '''M''' is the abbreviation for the ] ], and '''M'''' stands for ].
* In ], '''M''' denotes ]. While the symbol had originally a different shape, it took on the shape of an M based on the association with Latin ''mille'' ("one thousand"). There are also separate ] characters for this number, 0x216F "Ⅿ" and 0x217F "ⅿ".
* In antiquity, the letter M was considered a symbol of ], based on the Greek word ''μωρός'' ("stupid").

==Theology==
* In ] and ], 'M' is an abbreviation for "]".
* In ], 'M' is a symbol of the ], because of its three vertical lines.
* Ekchuah, the ] of warriors and merchants, was referred to as 'M' by early modern scholars before being positively identified by name.
*], in the Christian Church; when the term ''M.'' follows the name of a Christian saint it denotes that the saint was a Martyr.

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Latest revision as of 08:59, 24 November 2024

M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet.

M may also refer to:

Companies and products

Numbers and units of measurement

Postal codes

  • M, the postal code letter for Toronto in Canada
  • M postcode area, a group of several postcode districts in Greater Manchester

Science and technology

Computing

Transportation

Specific rail lines identified by the symbol "M"

Entertainment

Characters

Film and television

Print publications

Video games

Music

Performers

  • M (band), a British techno-pop project of the artist Robin Scott
  • Matthieu Chedid, French singer (stage name "-M-")
  • Lee Min-woo, Korean singer (stage name "M")
  • Mem Nahadr, American singer and performance artist (stage name "M")

Albums

Songs

Other uses

See also

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