M

1. Grammar masculine

2. Physics mass

3. meter (measurement)

4. minute

5. also M Physics modulus

1. Printing em

2. Bible Maccabees

3. Mach number

4. male

5. medium

6. metal

7. middle term

8. million

9. Chemistry molar

10. Physics moment

11. Monday

12. month

13. mutual inductance

1. A unified body of matter with no specific shape: a mass of clay.

2. A grouping of individual parts or elements that compose a unified body of unspecified size or quantity: "Take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates" (Herman Melville).

3. A large but nonspecific amount or number: a mass of bruises.

4. A lump or aggregate of coherent material: a cancerous mass.

5. The principal part; the majority: the mass of the continent.

6. The physical volume or bulk of a solid body.

7. Abbr. m Physics A property of matter equal to the measure of an object's resistance to changes in either the speed or direction of its motion. The mass of an object is not dependent on gravity and therefore is different from but proportional to its weight.

8. An area of unified light, shade, or color in a painting.

9. Pharmacology A thick, pasty mixture containing drugs from which pills are formed.

10. masses The body of common people or people of low socioeconomic status: "Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" (Emma Lazarus).

1. Of, relating to, characteristic of, directed at, or attended by a large number of people: mass education; mass communication.

2. Done or carried out on a large scale: mass production.

3. Total; complete: The mass result is impressive.

1. Abbr. M Any of a category of electropositive elements that usually have a shiny surface, are generally good conductors of heat and electricity, and can be melted or fused, hammered into thin sheets, or drawn into wires. Typical metals form salts with nonmetals, basic oxides with oxygen, and alloys with one another.

2. An alloy of two or more metallic elements.

3. An object made of metal.

4. Basic character; mettle.

5. Broken stones used for road surfaces or railroad beds.

6. Molten glass, especially when used in glassmaking.

7. Molten cast iron.

8. Printing Type made of metal.

9. Music Heavy metal.

Word History: In modern English, metal and mettle are pronounced the same, and they are in fact all related. Middle English borrowed metal from Old French in the 14th century; Old French metal, metail, came from Latin metallum, from Greek metallon, "mine, quarry, ore, metal." By the 16th century, metal had also come to mean "the stuff one is made of, one's character," but there was no difference in spelling between the literal and figurative senses until about 1700, when the spelling mettle, originally just a variant of metal, was fixed for the sense "fortitude." The history of English has numerous examples of pairs of words, like metal and mettle, that are (historically speaking) spelling variants of the same word; two other such pairs are trump/triumph and through/thorough.

1. Abbr. m or M Physics A quantity that expresses the degree to which a substance possesses a property, such as elasticity.

2. 1. Mathematics The absolute value of a complex number.

   2. Abbr. mod A number by which two given numbers can be divided and produce the same remainder.

   3. The number by which a logarithm in one system must be multiplied to obtain the corresponding logarithm in another system.

1. Abbr. M Chemistry

   1. Relating to or designating a solution that contains one mole of solute per liter of solution.

   2. Containing one mole of a substance.

2. Physics Of or relating to a body of matter as a whole, perceived apart from molecular or atomic properties.

1. A brief, indefinite interval of time.

2. A specific point in time, especially the present time: He is not here at the moment.

3. A particular period of importance, influence, or significance in a series of events or developments: a great moment in history; waiting for her big moment.

4. Outstanding significance or value; importance: a discovery of great moment.

5. A brief period of time that is characterized by a quality, such as excellence, suitability, or distinction: a lackluster performance that nevertheless had its moments.

6. Philosophy

   1. An essential or constituent element, as of a complex idea.

   2. A phase or an aspect of a logically developing process.

   3. The product of a quantity and its perpendicular distance from a reference point.

   4. The tendency to cause rotation about a point or an axis.

7. Abbr. M Physics

   1. The product of a quantity and its perpendicular distance from a reference point.

   2. The tendency to cause rotation about a point or an axis.

8. Statistics The expected value of a positive integral power of a random variable. The first moment is the mean of the distribution.

Synonyms: These nouns denote a brief interval of time. A moment is an indeterminately short but significant period: I'll be with you in a moment.
Instant is a period of time almost too brief to detect; it implies haste: He hesitated for just an instant.
Minute is often interchangable with moment and second with instant: The alarm will ring any minute. I'll be back in a second.
Jiffy and flash usually combine with in a; in a jiffy means in a short space of time, while in a flash suggests the almost imperceptible duration of a flash of light: "He was on his stool in a jiffy, driving away with his pen" (Charles Dickens). She finished the job in a flash. See Also Synonyms at importance.

1. em

2. Maccabees

3. Mach number

4. male

5. Malta (international vehicle ID)

6. married (as in personal ads)

7. medium

8. megabyte

9. mellow

10. metal

11. middle term

12. million

13. mint

14. molar

15. molarity

16. moment

17. Monday

18. month

19. more (shortwave transmission)

20. [heart] murmur

21. mutual inductance

22. 1000