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Translingual
Symbol
CM
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Cameroon.
- Synonym: CMR (alpha-3)
Anagrams
English
Etymology
Sense "commercial" is a borrowing from Japanese CM (CM, “promotional video”), from English commercial + message.
Noun
CM (countable and uncountable, plural CMs)
- (India, Pakistan) Initialism of chief minister.
- Coordinate term: PM (“prime minister”)
- (Canada) A member of the Order of Canada.
- (Japan) Initialism of commercial message.
- (chess) Initialism of Candidate Master.
- (astronautics) Initialism of command module.
- Coordinate terms: (related) LEM/LM, SM, OM
- (cryptography) Initialism of cryptographic module.
- (engineering, uncountable) Initialism of configuration management.
- (military) Initialism of cruise missile.
- Coordinate terms: (derived) CMCA, ALCM, GLCM, SLCM
- Coordinate terms: FFG, DDG, DLG, DHG, DEG, DCG, CCG, CLG, CAG, CHG, CBG, BCG, SSG, SSGN, CMCA
- (ring theory) Initialism of Cohen-Macaulay.
- (music, archaic) Initialism of common meter.
Proper noun
CM (uncountable)
- (medicine) Initialism of College of Medicine.
- (US, astronautics) Initialism of Command Module (“Apollo Command Module”).
See also
Anagrams
Japanese
Etymology
From コマーシャルメッセージ (komāsharu messēji, literally “commercial message”).
Pronunciation
Noun
CM • (shīemu)
- commercial message: a commercial or ad on television
Hypernyms
Spanish
Proper noun
CM ?
- Abbreviation of Campeche.