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M is also the name of a now-defunct professional videocassette format developed by Matsushita and RCA.
, in Classical languages as well as the modern languages. It derives its shape from the Greek Mu (Μ, μ). Semitic Mem originally pictured water, in all probability. The Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) says that 'm' is sometimes a vowel in words like . In modern terminology this would be described as a syllabic consonant — IPA span title="Pronunciation in IPA" Codes for computing In Unicode the capital M is codepoint U+004D and the lowercase m is U+006D. The ASCII code for capital M is 77 and for lowercase m is 109; or in binary 01001101 and 01101101, correspondingly. The EBCDIC code for capital M is 212 and for lowercase m is 148. The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "tt is the name of a member of "Generation X", a team of younger mutants affiliated with and coached by some of the former "X-Men".In common references to currency, M or m denotes million or millions, such as $25M (twenty-five million dollars).), and MM is used for million. Hence such traditional abbreviations as CPM for cost per thousand items of a retail good, or MCF for thousand cubic feet of (e.g.) natural gas. is the name of a film from 1931 directed by Fritz Lang about a serial killer who preys on children; see M (1931 film).In information systems, M is often used as the abbreviation for the male sex in personal data records. (a printed predecessor of the OEIS) sequences were numbered in lexicographic order prefixed by the letter M. Some older mathematical papers use these M numbers.In Roman naming convention, M is the abbreviation for the praenomen Marcus, and M' stands for Manius. in Latin (there are also separate Unicode characters for this number, 0x216F "Ⅿ" and 0x217F "ⅿ").In photography, most SLR cameras use M to signify manual mode, where the user sets both aperture and shutter speed.M is the US military designation for "Model" in weapons, vehicles and other equipment, but not military aircraft. Started use in the early to mid 1930's. Prior usage was the word |
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