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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter M. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
The rate of mass flow per unit area. The common symbols are j, J, φ, or Φ, sometimes with subscript m to indicate mass is the flowing quantity. Its SI units are kg s−1 m−2. mass moment of inertia A property of a distribution of mass in space that measures its resistance to rotational acceleration about an axis. mass number
Also amphidrome and tidal node. A geographical location where there is little or no tide, i.e. where the tidal amplitude is zero or nearly zero because the height of sea level does not differ significantly at high tide and low tide, and around which a tidal crest circulates once per tidal period (approximately every 12 hours). The tidal amplitude increases, though not uniformly, with distance ...
Glossary of geography terms (A–M) lists terms beginning with the letters A through M. This page, Glossary of geography terms (N–Z), lists terms beginning with the letters N through Z. Related terms may be found in Glossary of geology, Glossary of agriculture, Glossary of environmental science, and Glossary of astronomy
Also acid ionization constant or acidity constant. A quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution expressed as an equilibrium constant for a chemical dissociation reaction in the context of acid-base reactions. It is often given as its base-10 cologarithm, p K a. acid–base extraction A chemical reaction in which chemical species are separated from other acids and bases. acid ...
In Pinyin alphabetical order, where words have the same basic letters in pinyin and differ only in modifying diacritics, the unmodified letter comes before the modified letter. For example, e comes before ê (額 ( è ) before 欸 ( ê̄ )), and u comes before and ü (路 ( lù ) before 驢 ( lǘ ) and 努 ( nǔ ) before 女 ( nǚ )).
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In English, m represents the voiced bilabial nasal /m/. The Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) says that m is sometimes a vowel, such as in words like spasm and in the suffix-ism. In modern terminology, this is described as a syllabic consonant (IPA: /m̩/). M is the fourteenth most frequently used letter in the English language.