M2

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M2 or M-2 may refer to:

In computers and electronics:

• M2 (e-mail client), an e-mail and news client in the Opera web browser
• Memory Stick Micro (M2), a removable flash memory card format
• Modula-2 (M2), a computer programming language
• Panasonic M2, a video game console design
• Socket M2, a CPU socket
• Mother 2, a role-playing game for the SNES. Known as EarthBound in the US.

In economics:

• M2 (economics), a measure of the money supply

In firearms and military equipment:

• HMS M2, a submarine
• M2 Ball, ammunition
• M2 Bradley, an armored fighting vehicle
• M2 Browning machine gun, a machine gun in use since the 1920s
• M2 carbine, a select-fire carbine
• M2 Half Track Car
• M2 Light tank
• M2 mine, a World War II land mine
• M2/M4 Selectable Light-weight Attack Munition (SLAM), a land mine

In rail transport:

• M2 (Copenhagen), part of a Metro system, Denmark
• M2 (railcar)
• M2 Line, part of the Bucharest Metro, Romania

In roads:

• M2 Hills Motorway, a motorway in Sydney, Australia
• M-2 (Michigan highway), a former designation for a Michigan state highway
• M2 motorway, a motorway in southeast England
• M2 motorway (Northern Ireland), a motorway in Northern Ireland
• M2 motorway (Hungary), a motorway in Hungary
• M2 motorway (Pakistan), a motorway in Pakistan
• M2 motorway (Russia), another name for the Crimea Highway in Russia

In science:

• British NVC community M2, a mire biological community in the United Kingdom
• M2 protein, an ion channel in the cell membrane of the influenza A virus
• Messier 2 (M2), a globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius

In television:

• Magyar Televízió, a Hungarian TV channel
• MTV2, an American TV channel, formerly "M2" and sister channel of MTV

In music:

• Semitone, a musical interval sometimes abbreviated as "m2"

[edit] See also

• M², with a superscript number 2 to denote that the number is squared
• MII, with roman numerals representing the number 1002