MI
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mi"
Translingual
Symbol
MI
- (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Midway Atoll from 1974 to 1986.
- Synonym: MID (alpha-3)
Usage notes
The code was deprecated in favour of UM, the code for the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
English
Proper noun
MI
- Abbreviation of Michigan, a state of the United States of America.
Noun
MI (countable and uncountable, plural MIs)
- Initialism of middle initial.
- (military) Initialism of military intelligence.
- 2009, Karen Connelly, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story, Toronto: Random House Canada, →ISBN, page 108:
- Three months ago, after a minor argument between a small group of students and a tea shop owner, police arrived on the scene, arrested the students, and beat them up in a nearby police station. Apparently, the tea shop was owned by an MI agent.
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- (cardiology) Initialism of myocardial infarction.
- (cardiology) Initialism of mitral insufficiency.
- (dentistry) Initialism of mesioincisal.
- (medicine) Initialism of mechanical index.
- (medicine) Initialism of medical inspection.
- (information theory) Initialism of mutual information.
- 2018, Clarence Green; James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, DOI: , page 112:
- MI excludes words that frequently combine with many words (e.g. the), but can overemphasize low frequency collocation.
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- (baseball) Initialism of middle infielder.
Anagrams
- 'im, I'm, I. M., I.M., IM, Im, im-
Italian
Proper noun
MI ?
- Abbreviation of Milano.
Anagrams
- im-