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com
1[ kom, see-oh-em ]
- (on the internet) a top-level domain appearing as a suffix on domain names used for commercial establishments.
COM
2[ kom ]
noun
- Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- computer output on microfilm.
com-
3- a prefix meaning “with,” “together,” “in association,” and (with intensive force) “completely,” occurring in loanwords from Latin ( commit ): used in the formation of compound words before b, p, m: combine; compare; commingle.
com.
4abbreviation for
- comedy.
- comma.
- command.
- commander.
- commerce.
- commercial.
- commission.
- commissioner.
- committee.
- common.
- commonly.
- communications.
Com.
5abbreviation for
- Commander.
- Commission.
- Commissioner.
- Committee.
- Commodore.
- Commonwealth.
com-
1prefix
- together; with; jointly
commingle
COM
2/ kɒm /
noun
- a process in which a computer output is converted direct to microfiche or film, esp 35 or 16 millimetre film
- ( as modifier )
a COM machine
Com.
3abbreviation for
- Commander
- committee
- Commodore
com
4the internet domain name for
- a commercial company
.com
- Part of the Internet address of many companies and organizations. It indicates that the site is commercial, as opposed to educational or governmental.
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Notes
The explosive growth of wealth connected to the Internet in the 1990s is often said to have created many “dot-com millionaires.”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of com1
First recorded in 1980–85; shortening of commercial ( def ) or company ( def )
Origin of com2
< Latin, variant of preposition cum with
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Word History and Origins
Origin of com1
from Latin com-; related to cum with. In compound words of Latin origin, com- becomes col- and cor- before l and r, co- before gn, h, and most vowels, and con- before consonants other than b, p, and m. Although its sense in compounds of Latin derivation is often obscured, it means: together, with, etc ( combine, compile ) ; similar ( conform ); extremely, completely ( consecrate )
Origin of com2
( C ) omputer ( O ) utput on ( M ) icrofilm
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