CM
See also: cm, Cm, cM, .cm, and c.m.
Translingual
Symbol
CM
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Cameroon.
- Synonym: CMR (alpha-3)
Anagrams
- MC
English
Etymology
Sense "commercial" is a borrowing from Japanese CM (“promotional video”), from English commercial + message.
Noun
CM (countable and uncountable, plural CMs)
- (India) Initialism of chief minister.
- Coordinate term: PM (“prime minister”)
- (Canada) A member of the Order of Canada.
- (Japan) Initialism of commercial message.
- (chess) Initialism of Candidate Master.
- (astronautics) Initialism of command module.
- Coordinate terms: (related) LEM/LM, SM, OM
- (cryptography) Initialism of cryptographic module.
- (engineering, uncountable) Initialism of configuration management.
- (military) Initialism of cruise missile.
- Coordinate terms: (derived) CMCA, ALCM, GLCM, SLCM
- Coordinate terms: FFG, DDG, DLG, DHG, DEG, DCG, CCG, CLG, CAG, CHG, CBG, BCG, SSG, SSGN, CMCA
Proper noun
CM (uncountable)
- (medicine) Initialism of College of Medicine.
- (US, astronautics) Initialism of Command Module (“Apollo Command Module”).
See also
- (Command Module): Command Module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Apollo)
Anagrams
- M/C, MC, Mc, Mc-, mc
Japanese
Etymology
From コマーシャルメッセージ (komāsharu messēji, literally “commercial message”).
Pronunciation
- (Tokyo) シーエム [shìíémú] (Heiban – [0])
- IPA(key): [ɕiːe̞mɯ̟ᵝ]
Noun
CM • (shīemu)
- commercial message: a commercial or ad on television
- 2007 April 23, Hirokane, Kenshi, “Step 5: Five O'Clock World 1”, in ヤング島耕作 主任編 [Young Shima Kōsaku: Manager Arc], volume 1 (fiction), Tōkyō: Kōdansha, →ISBN, page 72–73:
- 僕はこのポスターは好きですね 好きだけど……何のCMかわからないんじゃないですか?
- Boku wa kono posutā wa suki desu ne Suki da kedo…… Nan no shīemu ka wakaranai n ja nai desu ka?
- I like this poster… But we still don’t know what the commercial’s gonna be like, no?
- 実は そこがポイントなんです 商品訴求をあえて隠して初芝AV機器のイメージだけを出したいんです
- Jitsu wa soko ga pointo na n desu Shōhin sokyū o aete kakushite Hatsushiba ēbui kiki no imēji dake o dashitai n desu
- That’s the point, actually. We want to keep the product’s appeal secret and just put out an image of Hatsushiba AV equipment.
- なるほど
- Naruhodo
- I see
- 僕はこのポスターは好きですね 好きだけど……何のCMかわからないんじゃないですか?
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Hypernyms
- 広告 (kōkoku): advertisement
Spanish
Proper noun
CM ?
- Abbreviation of Campeche.