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am
1[ am; unstressed uhm, m ]
Am
2- americium.
AM
3abbreviation for
- Electronics. amplitude modulation: a method of impressing a signal on a radio carrier wave by varying its amplitude.
- Radio. a system of broadcasting by means of amplitude modulation.
- of, relating to, or utilizing such a system. Compare FM
- Asian male.
Am.
4abbreviation for
- America.
- American.
A/m
5- ampere per meter.
a.m.
6abbreviation for
- before noon.
- the period from midnight to noon, especially the period of daylight prior to noon:
Shall we meet Saturday a.m.?
- a morning newspaper, sometimes issued shortly before midnight.
A.M.
7abbreviation for
- Master of Arts.
Am
1the chemical symbol for
- americium
Am.
2abbreviation for
- America(n)
A/M
6abbreviation for
- Air Marshal
am
8the internet domain name for
- Armenia
AM
- Abbreviation of amplitude modulation
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At 1:42 a.m., a commenter bluntly asked: “Jeff, Is it true you are a convicted sex offender?”
It was supposed to land in Singapore at 8:57 a.m. local time.
But Brooklyn was still Brooklyn, and at 1:45 a.m. a dispatcher could be heard saying on the police radio, “Shots fired by an MOS.”
MOSCOW — The capital of Chechnya, Grozny, seemed to blow up around 1:00 a.m. on Thursday morning.
By the time he arrived there at 3:22 a.m., with a blood alcohol content more than twice the legal limit, he was comatose.
There was a nice breeze from the eastward at 10 A.M., and like a flight of swans the yachts were away together.
The start took place at 10 A.M., on the Monday morning, when the weather was fine, wind tolerably fresh from south and west.
At 10 A.M. a fleet of eleven men-of-war appeared in the north-west, steering towards us.
For this same authority further on says, "It was 11 A.M. before we came in sight of the Alma."
If both meet together at the same hour, say eleven o'clock, the one will reckon 11 A.M., the other 11 P.M.
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