EM
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EM, Em or em may refer to:
Computing
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- Empirical modelling
- em (typography), a unit of measurement in Web design
Music
- E major (EM), a musical scale
- E minor (Em), a musical scale
- Electronic music, music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production
Organizations
- European Movement, an international lobbying association
- Aero Benin (IATA code), a former airline
- Empire Airlines (IATA code), a charter and cargo airline based in Idaho, US
Science
- Atlantic Equatorial mode, a climate pattern of the Atlantic Ocean
- Expectation–maximization algorithm, an algorithm for finding maximum likelihood estimates of parameters in probabilistic models
Physics
- Exametre or exameter (Em), an SI unit of length equal to 1018 metres
- Electromagnetic spectrum, the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation
- Electromigration, the transport of conducting solid material caused by electric current through it
- Electromagnetism, one of the fundamental physical forces
Biology
- Effective microorganisms, a series of products intended to improve soil quality and plant growth
- Extracellular matrix, the connective tissue supporting cells in multicellular organisms
- Membrane potential (Em), of a cell
Medicine
- Emergency medicine, a medical specialty dealing with acute illnesses and injuries that require immediate attention
- Erythema multiforme, a skin condition that usually follows an antecedent infection or drug exposure
- Erythromelalgia, a disorder that typically affects the skin of the feet and/or hands, causing redness, heat and pain
Technology
- Electron microscope, a type of microscope that uses electrons to "illuminate" a specimen and create an enlarged image
- Electron multiplier, a vacuum-tube structure that multiplies incident charges by means of secondary emission
- Nikon EM, an SLR camera made by the Nikon Corporation in the late 1970s
Linguistics
- M, a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, in English and other languages
- Em (Cyrillic) (М / м), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
- Em (digraph), a digraph in Portuguese
- Em, the third-person singular oblique Spivak pronoun
Typography
- em (typography), a unit of measurement
- em dash, a dash that is one em wide
- em space or mutton, a space that is one em wide
Management
- Emergency management, a discipline that studies dealing with and avoiding risks
- Energy management, planning and operation of energy production and energy consumption units
- Environmental management, the management of the interaction of human societies with the environment
Places
- El Monte, California, Los Angeles County, California, US
- El Monte, Chile, Talagante Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
People
- David Em (born 1952), American computer art pioneer
Other uses
- Em (comic strip), a comic strip by Maria Smedstad
- London Interbank Offered Rate, futures contracts, in Reuters Instrument Code for the 1-month at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
- EM gauge, a scale used in model railways
- Emerging markets, a nation's social or business activity in the process of rapid industrialization
- Erasmus Mundus, an international student-exchange program
- Electrician's mate, an occupational rating in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard
- Etymologicum Magnum, standard abbreviation in the bibliography of the largest Byzantine lexicon, the lexical encyclopaedia compiled at Constantinople around 1150 AD
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