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EM, Em or em may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Music
[edit]- EM, the E major musical scale
- Em, the E minor musical scale
- Electronic music, music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production
- Encyclopedia Metallum, an online metal music database
- Eminem, American rapper
Other uses in arts and entertainment
[edit]- Em (comic strip), a comic strip by Maria Smedstad
Companies and organizations
[edit]- Em (restaurant), a restaurant in Mexico City
- Aero Benin (IATA code), a defunct airline
- Empire Airlines (IATA code), a charter and cargo airline based in Idaho, US
- Erasmus Mundus, an international student-exchange program
- Estado de Minas, a Brazilian newspaper
- European Movement, an international lobbying association
- ExxonMobil, a large oil company formed from the merger of Exxon and Mobil in 1999
- La République En Marche! (sometimes shortened to "En Marche!"), a major French political party
Economics
[edit]- Emerging markets, nations undergoing rapid industrialization
Language and typography
[edit]Language
[edit]- M, a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, in English and other languages
- Em (Cyrillic) (М / м), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
- Em (digraph), a digraph in Portuguese
- Em, the third-person singular oblique Spivak pronoun
Typography
[edit]- em (typography), a unit of measurement
- em dash, a dash that is one em wide
- em space or mutton, a space that is one em wide
Management
[edit]- Emergency management, a discipline that studies dealing with and avoiding risks
- Energy management, planning and operation of energy production and energy consumption units
- Environmental management, the management of the interaction of human societies with the environment
Places
[edit]- El Monte, California, a city in the United States
- El Monte, Chile, a city in Chile
Science
[edit]Biology
[edit]- Effective microorganisms, a series of products intended to improve soil quality and plant growth
- Extracellular matrix, the connective tissue supporting cells in multicellular organisms
- Membrane potential (Em), of a cell
Computing
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- Empirical modelling
- em (typography), a unit of measurement in Web design
- eM Client E-Mail client
Medicine
[edit]- Emergency medicine, a medical specialty dealing with acute illnesses and injuries that require immediate attention
- Erythema multiforme, a skin condition that usually follows an antecedent infection or drug exposure
- Erythromelalgia, a disorder that typically affects the skin of the feet and/or hands, causing redness, heat and pain
- Extensive metabolizer, a term used in pharmacogenomics to refer to individuals with normal metabolic activity
Physics
[edit]- Exametre or exameter (Em), an SI unit of length equal to 1018 metres
- Electromagnetic spectrum, the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation
- Electromigration, the transport of conducting solid material caused by electric current through it
- Electromagnetism, one of the fundamental physical forces
- Electromechanics, combines electrical engineering and mechanical engineering
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Nikon EM, an SLR camera made by the Nikon Corporation in the late 1970s
- Electron microscope, a type of microscope that uses electrons to "illuminate" a specimen and create an enlarged image
- Electron multiplier, a vacuum-tube structure that multiplies incident charges by means of secondary emission
- Electronic monitoring, a form of surveillance used in criminal justice
- Atlantic Equatorial mode, a climate pattern of the Atlantic Ocean
- Expectation–maximization algorithm, an algorithm for finding maximum likelihood estimates of parameters in probabilistic models
Other uses
[edit]- Electrician's mate, an occupational rating in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard
- David Em (born 1952), an American computer art pioneer
- EM gauge, a scale used in model railways
- Etymologicum Magnum, in the bibliography of the largest Byzantine lexicon