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m

m

2 9.3
The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet
  • noun
  • /ɛm/
translation icon : eme
  • Charelise Davis (Pittsburgh, Pa.) started the competition by claiming the 60m dash title after clocking in at 7.72.

Examples

  • Santiago died at 1:00 a. m.

  • I left out a letter in the alphabet K L shell, M shell, N shell.

  • 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.

  • In the word 'man', the letter m comes before the vowel 'a'.

  • When writing the alphabet, the letter m follows 'l' and precedes 'n'.

Synonyms

M
vsm
25 1.0

The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet

has identical meaning but is written in lowercase rather than uppercase

Compounds

M-1
1 7.4

A standard U.S. military rifle used by U.S. soldiers in World War II

1 7.5

A U.S. military semiautomatic rifle used in World War II and the Korean War

immunoglobulin M
  • Specialized
6.3

An antibody found in the blood early in infection that fights germs and helps start longer protection

vitamin M
  • Archaic
3.3

A vitamin needed for making new cells and preventing anemia

Surface Forms

m singular
ms plural

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.