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M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet and also the thirteenth letter in the English alphabet. It may also refer to:

Miscellaneous abbreviations

• M., an abbreviation for Monsieur
• M (comics) is a member of "Generation X", a team of younger mutants affiliated with and coached by some of the former "X-Men".
• M (comic strip) is a Norwegian comic strip.
• In the anime and manga Chobits, the online handle of Minoru Kokubunji.

• M-ratio in poker is a measure of the health of his chip stack.

• M (James Bond), the codename of the fictional head of MI6 in the James Bond books and films
• M (film), a 1931 film by Fritz Lang
• M (1951 film), a remake of the 1931 film
• M, a defunct rating in the MPAA rating system
• M, a rating used by the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification (Australia)
• M (videocassette format), a now-defunct professional videocassette format

Music

• M (John Cage book) is a 1973 book by avantgarde composer John Cage.
• M is a song by Ayumi Hamasaki.
• M is a techno-pop project of the artist Robin Scott; this project performed the 1979 #1 hit song "Pop Muzik".
• -M- is the artist name of the French singer Matthieu Chédid.
• "M" is the pseudonym for the American performance artist Mem Nahadr, a Jazz vocalist hired by Yoko Kanno; see M (singer).
• M can be a reference to rapper Eminem.
• M, a song by The Cure from their 1980 album Seventeen Seconds.
• M People were a band popular in the 1990s.
• A lower-case m placed after a note name indicates a minor chord (e.g., Em for an E minor chord).
• M is a male Korean singer also known as Lee Min Woo.

Business

• M closely resembles the symbol of McDonald's, known as the Golden Arches.
• "M" (fragrance) is the debut fragrance from singer-songwriter Mariah Carey.
• m is used on the candy coated choclates "m&ms" made by the Mars Corporation.

• In common references to currency, M or m denotes million or millions, such as $25M (twenty-five million dollars).
• Script capital M (Unicode 0x2133 ℳ) denotes the old German currency Goldmark.
• M is often the abbreviation for the masculine grammatical gender.
• The NATO M band ranges from 60 to 100 GHz.
• M stands for a reddish class of stars in the Morgan-Keenan system.
• In biochemistry, M is the symbol for methionine.

Chemistry

• M is another name for the computer programming language MUMPS.
• M-code, or just M, is the MATLAB programming language.

Measurement

• M (mega) is an SI prefix denoting 10 = 1,000,000 (one million) (cf. M in computing above)
• m (milli) is an SI prefix meaning 1/1000.
• m denotes metre (or meter), the SI base unit for length.
• m is a widely used abbreviation for mile, 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 mass.
• M-theory is a proposed solution for problems in superstring theories.

Roman uses of M

• In the Roman naming convention, M is the abbreviation for the praenomen Marcus, and M' stands for Manius.
• In Roman numerals, M denotes one thousand. 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 Unicode characters for this number, 0x216F "Ⅿ" and 0x217F "ⅿ".

Theology

• M Gospel

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