M vs Allude - What's the difference?
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The thirteenth letter of the .
meter (metre), the unit of length in the International System of Units
milli-
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mass
month or months
cardinal number one thousand (1000)
Image:Latin M.png, Capital and lowercase versions of M , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter M.png, Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur
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To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
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As a letter m
is the thirteenth letter of the.As a symbol m
is meter (metre), the unit of length in the international system of units.As a numeral m
is cardinal number one thousand (1000).As a verb allude is
to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.m
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=l, next=n, image= (wikipedia m)Etymology 1
Modification of capital letter M, from (etyl) letter .Letter
See also
(Latn-script) * (other scripts) * Turned:Etymology 2
Various abbreviations.Symbol
(Bilabial nasal) (head)Etymology 3
From upper case roman numeral M (1000), an alteration of ?, from ?, an alteration of ?, an alteration of ?, from encircling X (the roman numeral for ten) to indicate the hundredth ten.Alternative forms
* M,Numeral
Synonyms
*See also
{{Letter , page=M , NATO=Mike , Morse=–– , Character=M , Braille=? }}allude
English
Verb
(allud)Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:
- These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
page 474
- It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude .
citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
