IM
See also: Appendix:Variations of "im"
Translingual
Alternative forms
Symbol
IM
- The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Isle of Man.
Number
IM
- Misspelling of CMXCIX., the Roman numeral representing nine hundred and ninety-nine (999).
See also
- Previous: CMXCVIII (nine hundred and ninety-eight, 998)
- Next: M (one thousand, 1000)
English
Adjective
IM
- Initialism of intramuscular.
Noun
IM (plural IMs)
- Initialism of idea management.
- The paper discusses the development of a performance measurement methodology for Idea Management (IM), i.e., a system that supports nonprofessional innovation as a way to the continuous improvement of organisations.[1]
- (computing) Initialism of Information Management.
- (Internet) Initialism of instant message.
- I never got your IM last night.
- (Internet) Initialism of instant messaging.
- 2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70:
- Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!
- (swimming) Initialism of individual medley.
Verb
IM (third-person singular simple present IMs, present participle IMing, simple past and past participle IMed)
- Initialism of to instant message (typically sent/received by cell phone, PDA, or computer)
- IM me when you get home.
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German
Noun
IM m (genitive IM, plural IM)
- (history) inoffizieller Mitarbeiter (also: Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter), an informant in the German Democratic Republic who delivered private information to the Ministry for State Security
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