Basic Guidelines For English Spellings
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abbreviation
1Mare.
2Married.
- ‘m twice; two d’
3Masculine.
4
(also m-)Chemistry
in combination Meta-- ‘m-xylene’
5Metre(s).
6Mile(s).
7in combination (in units of measurement) milli-
- ‘the generator operated at 40 kV and 100 mA’
8Million(s)
- ‘£5 m’
9Minute(s).
Physics
Mass.
- ‘E = mc²’
nounMs, M's
1The thirteenth letter of the alphabet.
‘I'm 30 and have had the exact same problem for many years -- and only just recently realized dilemma has two M's and no N.’- ‘Remember, his name has two M's in it.’
- 1.1Denoting the next after L in a set of items, categories, etc.
2The Roman numeral for 1,000.
‘The Roman numerals C and M sometimes did not mean 100 or 1000 (see hundred).’- ‘What number equals the Roman numeral M?’
abbreviation
1Cricket
(on scorecards) maiden over(s).2Male.
3Malta (international vehicle registration).
4Medium (as a clothes size).
5in combination (in units of measurement) mega-
- ‘8 Mbytes of memory’
6Astronomy
Messier (catalogue of nebulae)- ‘the galaxy M33’
7Chemistry
(with reference to solutions) molar.- ‘0.15 M NaCl solution’
8Monsieur.
- ‘M Chirac’
9(in UK road designations) motorway.
- ‘the M25’
10Used with following numeral in measures of money supply.
- ‘broad money, M3, grew by an annualized 9.7 per cent’
Physics
Mutual inductance.
Pronunciation
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