Dictionary Definition
nm
Noun
1 a metric unit of length equal to one billionth
of a meter [syn: nanometer, nanometre, millimicron, micromillimeter,
micromillimetre]
2 a state in southwestern United States on the
Mexican border [syn: New Mexico,
Land of
Enchantment]
User Contributed Dictionary
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English
NM
- New Mexico, a state of the United States of America.
NM
Extensive Definition
NM, nm, nM, or Nm may stand for:
- National Master, a chess title
- Nautical mile, a unit of length used for maritime and aviation purposes
- Neal Morse, an American multi-instrumentalist
- Network marketing, a business model that combines direct marketing with franchising
- Neurofiber mitosis, a nerve disease, sometimes confused with neurofibromatosis
- New Mexico, in United States postal abbreviations
- North Miami, a city in northern Miami-Dade County, Florida
- North Miami High School, a high school located in North Miami, Florida
- Northwestern Mutual, a life insurance and financial services company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Nuclear medicine, the use of radiopharmaceuticals in medical imaging
- the IATA airline designator for Air Madrid and Mount Cook Airline
- "Near mint", a quality grade in various forms of collecting, just below mint condition
- "Non-metallic" power cable, widely used in electrical house wiring
- Namco Museum
- nanometre, an SI unit of length, equal to 10-9 m (a thousand-millionth of a metre)
- nM, nanomolar, a thousand-millionth of a molar
- nm (Unix), a computer program used as an aid for debugging
- Newton metre (N m or N·m), a unit of torque
The similar symbol Nm3 stands for "normal cubic
metres", a unit of volume (Normal in this context means at
standard temperature and pressure), although it also stands for
"newton cubic metres" in SI notation.
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