EM

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Contents 1 Computing 2 Scientific 3 Medicine 4 Typography & orthography 5 Social 6 Music 7 Other

EM, Em or em has several meanings:

[edit] Computing

• End of Medium, an ISO C0 control code
• emphasis (typography), or <em>, the HTML element for emphasis
• Expectation-maximization algorithm, used for statistical computing

[edit] Scientific

• Effective microorganisms or EM-Technology by Dr. Teruo Higa
• Electromagnetic
• Electromagnetism (diamagnetism) as compared to ferromagnetism (paramagnetism)
• Electromigration - A common issue encountered in integrated circuit design
• Electron microscope
• Electron multiplier
• Exametre (symbol Em), an SI unit of length (equal to 10¹⁸ metres)

[edit] Medicine

• Erythema multiforme
• Emergency medicine
• Electron microscope

[edit] Typography & orthography

• em (typography), a unit of measure used in orthography, typography, and also Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The em space is one em wide.
• The em dash (—), which is one em wide.
• Em (Cyrillic), A phoneme of the Cyrillic alphabet. It corresponds directly to the Latin alphabet letter 'M' and is pronounced similarly.
• An em is the square of the typeface or font that is being used. For example, a 14 point EM has a 14 point square, 24 point EM a 24 point square
• The pronunciation, in English, of the letter M.

[edit] Social

• An enlisted Man of the United States Army.
• One of the Spivak pronouns.
• A common slang for "them", e.g. "go get 'em, tiger!"
• EM, Reuters Instrument Code for the 1-month LIBOR futures contracts at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
• The common short form of some given names, e.g. 'Emma', 'Emily', 'Emmett', 'Emmanuel', and 'Emerson'.
• Common abbreviation for electronic music.
• Common abbreviation for emerging markets.

[edit] Music

• EM and Em are abbreviations for the E Major and E Minor chords, respectively.
• Electronic Music
• E minor scale
• Eminem, a rapper
• Extraordinary Machine, a Fiona Apple album

[edit] Other

• The European Movement
• The IATA code for Aero Benin
• The IATA code for Empire Airlines
• Emergency management
• Extreme Makeover
• The model railway EM gauge (Eighteen Millimetres)
• NZR EM class series of Electric Multiple Units purchased by the New Zealand Railways Department.