LM

See also: lm

Translingual

Alternative forms

• (roman numeral): lm, cml, CML

Number

LM

1. (informal) A Roman numeral representing nine hundred and fifty (950).

Coordinate terms

• Previous: LLM (eight hundred, 600)
• Previous: LLMIL (nine 7hundred and forty-nine, 949)
• Next: LMI (nine hundred and fifty-one, 951)
• Next: M (thousand, 1000)

Proper noun

LM

1. (motor racing) initialism of Le Mans

Derived terms

• LMP, LMP1, LMP2
• GTLM, GTLM1, GTLM2, GTLM3
• LM1, LM2, LM3

English

Noun

LM (plural LMs)

2. (US, space flight) Initialism of lunar module.

   Synonym: LEM

   Hypernym: module

4. (graphical user interface) Initialism of layout manager.
6. (microscopy) Initialism of light microscopy or light microscope.

   Hypernyms: microscopy; microscope

   Coordinate terms: SEM, TEM

8. (astronautics) Initialism of liquid methane.

   Hypernym: fuel

   Coordinate terms: RP-1 (“rocket propellant 1”), LOx (“liquid oxygen”), LOX (“liquid oxygen”), LH (“liquid hydrogen”), LH2 (“liquid hydrogen”), LNG (“liquified natural gas”)

10. (machine learning) Initialism of language model.

    Hyponyms: LLM, large language model, SLM, small language model

    • 2021 March 3, Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜”, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Virtual Event Canada: ACM, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 610–623:

      However, from the perspective of work on language technology, it is far from clear that all of the effort being put into using large LMs to ‘beat’ tasks designed to test natural language understanding, and all of the effort to create new such tasks, once the existing ones have been bulldozed by the LMs, brings us any closer to long-term goals of general language understanding systems.

Derived terms

• (lunar module): LM lifeboat

Anagrams

• ML

Chinese

Verb

LM

1. alternative form of lm