Definition of
M
- (noun, quantity) the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
- (noun, attribute) concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution
- (noun, quantity) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- (noun, quantity) a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes
- (noun, quantity) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
- (noun, communication) the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet
- (adj, all) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
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Synonyms of M
1000, chiliad, g, grand, k, mb, mebibyte, megabyte, meter, metre, mib, molar concentration, molarity, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard
Alternate forms of M
Hyponyms: millenary
Hypernyms: alphabetic character, computer memory unit, concentration, large integer, letter, letter of the alphabet, metric linear unit
Origin of the word M
- from Gk. mu, from Semitic mem. The Roman symbol for 1,000; sometimes used in this sense in English 15c.-16c.; but in modern newspaper headlines it stands for million. more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
Words that sound like M
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