TM

See also: .tm, Tm, t/m, tm, and ™

Translingual

Symbol

TM

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Turkmenistan since 1992.

   Synonym: TKM (alpha-3)

Further reading

• TM on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Symbol

TM

1. trademark

   SuperAcme™ is a trademark of Acme Incorporated.

Alternative forms

• ™

Translations

trademark

• Spanish: MR

Noun

TM (countable and uncountable, plural TMs)

1. (LGBTQ) Initialism of trans man or trans male.

   Coordinate terms: TF, TW

2. Initialism of transcendental meditation.
   • 1993, Tristan Hawkins, Pepper, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, page 226:

     I communicate at MD-level these days. Prolonged sobriety and TM have given me a direct line to Pat.

   • 2026 January 2, Jemima Kelly, “Why I fell for transcendental meditation”, in FT‎^[1]:

     Like many people, I was drawn to TM by David Lynch, the filmmaker and artist who would have turned 80 on 15 January (the one-year anniversary of his death is five days after that). Lynch practised TM for more than 50 years and devoted much of the last two decades of his life to promoting it, setting up his own foundation in 2005 to fund its teaching in schools and to at-risk populations around the world.

3. (translation studies) Initialism of translation memory.
4. (computing) Initialism of Turing machine.
5. (UK, telecommunications, historical) Initialism of telephone manager.
6. Initialism of transverse myelitis.

Pronoun

TM

1. Initialism of Their Majesties.

Related terms

• HIM
• HM
• TIM

Anagrams

• M/T, MT, Mt, Mt., mt, mt.

Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāmā

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ ㄇㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāmā
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ ㄇㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tama
    • Wade–Giles: tʻa¹-ma¹
    • Yale: tā-mā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tamha
    • Palladius: тама (tama)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰä⁵⁵ mä⁵⁵/

Phrase

TM

1. (vulgar, slang) initialism of 他媽 / 他妈 (tāmā)

   去TM的！  ―  qù tā mā de.  ―  Fuck off!

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.ɛm/, [ˈt̪e.ɛm]

Noun

TM (uncountable)

1. (electrical engineering) initialism of tegangan menengah (“medium voltage”)
2. (mechanical engineering) initialism of tekanan menengah (“medium pressure”)

Romanian

Proper noun

TM

1. abbreviation of Timiș: a county of Romania

Vietnamese

Noun

TM

1. initialism of thương mại