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Translingual
Symbol
MI
- (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Midway Atoll from 1974 to 1986.
- Synonym: MID (alpha-3)
Usage notes
The code was deprecated in favour of UM, the code for the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
English
Proper noun
MI
- Abbreviation of Michigan, a state of the United States of America.
Noun
MI (countable and uncountable, plural MIs)
- Initialism of middle initial.
- (military) Initialism of military intelligence.
2009, Karen Connelly, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story, Toronto: Random House Canada, →ISBN, page 108:Three months ago, after a minor argument between a small group of students and a tea shop owner, police arrived on the scene, arrested the students, and beat them up in a nearby police station. Apparently, the tea shop was owned by an MI agent.
- (cardiology) Initialism of myocardial infarction.
- (cardiology) Initialism of mitral insufficiency.
- (dentistry) Initialism of mesioincisal.
- (mathematics) Initialism of mathematical induction.
- (medicine) Initialism of mechanical index.
- (medicine) Initialism of medical inspection.
- (information theory) Initialism of mutual information.
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 112:MI excludes words that frequently combine with many words (e.g. the), but can overemphasize low frequency collocation.
- (baseball) Initialism of middle infielder.
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Hungarian
Pronunciation
Noun
MI (plural MI-k)
- Initialism of mesterséges intelligencia (“artificial intelligence”): AI
Declension
Italian
Proper noun
MI ?
- Abbreviation of Milano.
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