EM
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EM, Em or em has several meanings:
[edit] Scientific
- Effective Microorganisms or EM-Technology by Dr. Teruo Higa
- Electromagnetic
- Electromagnetism (diamagnetism) as compared to ferromagnetism (paramagnetism)
- Electromigration - A common issue encountered in integrated circuit design
- Electronic Music
- Electron microscope
- Exametre (symbol Em), an SI unit of length (equal to 1018 metres)
- Expectation-maximization algorithm, used for statistical computing
- "end of medium" control code in the C0 control code set
-
<em></em>, an HTML element (em for emphasis)
[edit] Typography & orthography
- A unit of measure used in orthography, typography, and also CSS. The em space is one em wide.
- The em dash (—), which is one em wide.
- A phoneme of the Cyrillic alphabet letter 'M'. It corresponds directly to the Latin alphabet letter 'M' and is pronounced similarly.
[edit] Social
- An Enlisted Man of the United States Army.
- One of the Spivak pronouns.
- A common slang for "them", e.g. go get 'em, tiger!
- EM, Reuters Instrument Code for the 1-month LIBOR futures contracts at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
- The common shortform of some names, e.g. 'Emma', 'Emily', 'Emmett', 'Emmanuel', 'Emerson'.
- Common abbreviation for electronic music.
- Common abbreviation for Evamade.net, a fan-community based around the Neon Genese Evangelion anime series.
[edit] Music
- EM and Em are abbreviations for the E Major and E Minor chords, respectively.
- The rapper "Eminem" (Marshall Mathers)
[edit] Other
- The IATA code for Aero Benin
- The IATA code for Empire Airlines
- Emergency management
- Extreme Makeover
