EM, Em or em may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
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E major
E major (or the key of E) is a major scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has four sharps. Its relative minor is C-sharp minor and its parallel minor is E minor. Its enharmonic equiv ...
musical scale
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E minor
E minor is a minor scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has one sharp. Its relative major is G major and its parallel major is E major.
The E natural minor scale is:
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Changes nee ...
musical scale
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Electronic music
Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...
, music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production
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Encyclopedia Metallum, an online metal music database
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (; often stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper and record producer. He is credited with popularizing hip hop in middle America and is critically acclai ...
, American rapper
Other uses in arts and entertainment
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''Em'' (comic strip), a comic strip by Maria Smedstad
Companies and organizations
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European Movement, an international lobbying association
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Aero Benin (IATA code), a defunct airline
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Empire Airlines (IATA code), a charter and cargo airline based in Idaho, US
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Erasmus Mundus, an international student-exchange program
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ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, and was formed on November ...
, a large oil company formed from the merger of Exxon and Mobil in 1999
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La République En Marche!
Renaissance (RE), previously known as La République En Marche ! (frequently abbreviated LREM, LaREM or REM; translated as "The Republic on the Move" or "Republic Forward"), or sometimes called simply En Marche ! () as its original name, is a ...
(sometimes shortened to "En Marche!"), a major French political party
Economics
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Emerging markets, nations undergoing rapid industrialization
Language and typography
Language
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M, a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, in English and other languages
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Em (Cyrillic) (М / м), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
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Em (digraph), a digraph in Portuguese
* Em, the third-person singular oblique
Spivak pronoun
Typography
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em (typography)
An em (from English '' em quadrat'') is a unit in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size. For example, one em in a 16-point typeface is 16 points. Therefore, this unit is the same for all typefaces at a given point ...
, a unit of measurement
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em dash
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...
, a dash that is one em wide
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em space or mutton, a space that is one em wide
Management
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Emergency management
Emergency management or disaster management is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. Emergency management, despite its name, does not actuall ...
, a discipline that studies dealing with and avoiding risks
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Energy management, planning and operation of energy production and energy consumption units
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Environmental management
Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself. Environmental resources management aims ...
, the management of the interaction of human societies with the environment
Places
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El Monte, California
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El Monte ( Spanish for "The Mountain") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city lies in the San Gabriel Valley, east of the city of Los Angeles.
El Monte's slogan is "Welcome to Friendly El Monte" and is historical ...
, a city in the United States
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El Monte, Chile
El Monte is a Chilean city and commune in Talagante Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. As of 2007, it had a population of 29,568.
Geography
El Monte can be found on the north bank of the Mapocho River in the Chilean Central Valley appro ...
, a city in Chile
Science
Biology
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Effective microorganism
Effective microorganisms (EM) are various blends of common predominantly anaerobic microorganisms in a carbohydrate-rich liquid carrier substrate ( molasses nutrient solution) of ''EM Research Organization, Inc.'',''Effective Microorganisms'' ''EM' ...
s, a series of products intended to improve soil quality and plant growth
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Extracellular matrix
In biology, the extracellular matrix (ECM), also called intercellular matrix, is a three-dimensional network consisting of extracellular macromolecules and minerals, such as collagen, enzymes, glycoproteins and hydroxyapatite that provide struc ...
, the connective tissue supporting cells in multicellular organisms
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Membrane potential
Membrane potential (also transmembrane potential or membrane voltage) is the difference in electric potential between the interior and the exterior of a biological cell. That is, there is a difference in the energy required for electric charge ...
(''E''
m), of a cell
Computing
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HTML element
An HTML element is a type of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) document component, one of several types of HTML nodes (there are also text nodes, comment nodes and others). The first used version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993 ...
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End of medium
The C0 and C1 control code or control character sets define control codes for use in text by computer systems that use ASCII and derivatives of ASCII. The codes represent additional information about the text, such as the position of a cursor ...
, ISO C0 control code ^Y
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Empirical modelling
Empirical modelling refers to any kind of ( computer) modelling based on empirical observations rather than on mathematically describable relationships of the system modelled.
Empirical Modelling Empirical Modelling as a variety of empirical m ...
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em (typography)
An em (from English '' em quadrat'') is a unit in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size. For example, one em in a 16-point typeface is 16 points. Therefore, this unit is the same for all typefaces at a given point ...
, a unit of measurement in Web design
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eM Client
eM Client is a Windows and macOS based email client for sending and receiving emails, managing calendars, tasks, contacts, and notes. Live chat is integrated as well. It was developed as a user-friendly alternative to existing email clients and ...
E-Mail client
Medicine
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Emergency medicine
Emergency medicine is the medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians (often called “ER doctors” in the United States) continuously learn to care for un ...
, a medical specialty dealing with acute illnesses and injuries that require immediate attention
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Erythema multiforme, a skin condition that usually follows an antecedent infection or drug exposure
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Erythromelalgia, a disorder that typically affects the skin of the feet and/or hands, causing redness, heat and pain
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Extensive metabolizer, a term used in pharmacogenomics to refer to individuals with normal metabolic activity
Physics
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Exametre or exameter (Em), an SI unit of length equal to 10
18 metres
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Electromagnetic spectrum
The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of frequencies (the spectrum) of electromagnetic radiation and their respective wavelengths and photon energies.
The electromagnetic spectrum covers electromagnetic waves with frequencies ranging from ...
, the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation
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Electromigration, the transport of conducting solid material caused by electric current through it
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Electromagnetism
In physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge. It is the second-strongest of the four fundamental interactions, after the strong force, and it is the dominant force in the interactions o ...
, one of the fundamental physical forces
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Electromechanics
In engineering, electromechanics combines processes and procedures drawn from electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Electromechanics focuses on the interaction of electrical and mechanical systems as a whole and how the two system ...
, combines electrical engineering and mechanical engineering
Other uses in science and technology
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Nikon EM, an SLR camera made by the Nikon Corporation in the late 1970s
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Electron microscope
An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. As the wavelength of an electron can be up to 100,000 times shorter than that of visible light photons, electron microscopes have a ...
, a type of microscope that uses electrons to "illuminate" a specimen and create an enlarged image
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Electron multiplier, a vacuum-tube structure that multiplies incident charges by means of secondary emission
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Atlantic Equatorial mode
The Atlantic Equatorial Mode or Atlantic Niño is a quasiperiodic interannual climate pattern of the equatorial Atlantic Ocean. It is the dominant mode of year-to-year variability that results in alternating warming and cooling episodes of sea su ...
, a climate pattern of the Atlantic Ocean
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Expectation–maximization algorithm, an algorithm for finding maximum likelihood estimates of parameters in probabilistic models
Other uses
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Electrician's mate, an occupational rating in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard
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David Em (born 1952), an American computer art pioneer
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EM gauge, a scale used in model railways
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Etymologicum Magnum
''Etymologicum Magnum'' ( grc, Ἐτυμολογικὸν Μέγα, ) (standard abbreviation ''EM'', or ''Etym. M.'' in older literature) is the traditional title of a Greek lexical encyclopedia compiled at Constantinople by an unknown lexicograp ...
'', in the bibliography of the largest Byzantine lexicon
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