M

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
Basic Latin	U+004D

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 1.1.1 See also 1.2 Symbol 1.3 Number 1.4 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.3 Abbreviation 2.4 Noun 2.5 Proper noun 2.5.1 Usage notes 3 American Sign Language 3.1 Letter 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Letter 4.3 See also 5 Finnish 5.1 Noun 6 French 6.1 Letter 6.2 Abbreviation 6.2.1 Alternative forms 6.2.2 See also 7 Italian 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Noun 8 Romanian 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Letter 9 Slovene 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Letter 10 Spanish 10.1 Letter

[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Letter

M upper case (lower case m)

1. The thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter M):  Ḿḿ  Ṁṁ  Ṃṃ  ᵯ  ᶆ  Ɱɱ  ᴍ  Ｍｍ

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M

1. mega-
2. (astronomy): Messier number. Objects in Charles Messier's catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters in 1774 are numbered, and the letter M (for Messier) is prepended to these numbers, as in M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) or M13 (the globular cluster in Hercules).
3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for methionine

[edit] Number

M

1. The Roman numeral M (1,000)

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Other representations of M:

NATO phonetic: Mike Morse code: –– Braille: ⠍ ASL Manual: M

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of M, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛm/, SAMPA: /Em/

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M (uppercase, lowercase m)

1. The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, preceded by L and followed by N.

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M or M.

1. Monsieur
2. male
3. Monday
4. Mother
5. (size) Medium
6. (US, roadway) Michigan; Usage note: This designation is used within Michigan.
7. mature
8. (cricket, in batting figures) the number of minutes a player spent at the crease
9. (cricket, in bowling figures) the number of maiden overs bowled

[edit] Noun

M (plural Ms or M's)

1. The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet; a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant.

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M

1. fictional character from the James Bond stories and films
   • 2002, London Review of Books, 8 Aug 2002

     Stewart Menzies, head of SIS (the model for James Bond's M)

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• The proper designation for the head of the SIS is, actually, "C".

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[edit] American Sign Language

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(Stokoe M)

1. The letter M

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛm/

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M (capital, lowercase m)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: L
• Next letter: N

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[edit] Finnish

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M

1. magna cum laude approbatur

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[edit] French

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M (uppercase, lowercase m)

1. The thirteenth letter of the French alphabet, preceded by L and followed by N.

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M m. (plural Ms)

1. monsieur

[edit] Alternative forms

• M.

[edit] See also

• Mme
• Mlle

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛmme/, SAMPA: /"Emme/

[edit] Noun

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M m. and f. inv.

1. The eleventh letter of the Italian alphabet
2. The thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /me/, /em/

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M (capital, lowercase m)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /m/. Preceded by L and followed by N.

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[edit] Slovene

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M (capital, lowercase m)

1. The 14th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by L and followed by N.

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

M (upper case, lower case m)

1. The 15th letter of the Spanish alphabet.