m
- noun
- /ɛm/
- Charelise Davis (Pittsburgh, Pa.) started the competition by claiming the 60m dash title after clocking in at 7.72.
Examples
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Santiago died at 1:00 a. m.
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I left out a letter in the alphabet K L shell, M shell, N shell.
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Next, students are shown that the /m/ sound is represented by a letter 'm' and the /en/ sounds are represented by the letters 'e-n.'
Academic text (2015) -
Long before there was a Mussar movement, there was "mussar," with a lower-case "m."
Academic text (2015) -
The children were aged between 4 years and 5 years (M = 53.7 months, SD = 3.9).
Academic text (2015) -
The letter m is the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet.
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In the word 'man', the letter m comes before the vowel 'a'.
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When writing the alphabet, the letter m follows 'l' and precedes 'n'.
Synonyms
The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet
Compounds
- Specialized
An antibody found in the blood early in infection that fights germs and helps start longer protection
Surface Forms
Etymology
M comes from an old Middle Eastern sign called mem that meant 'water' and looked like waves, and this sign later became Greek mu and then Latin M. So the letter m began as a 'water' sign and today is the thirteenth letter.