M vs Prognostic - What's the difference?
m | prognostic |
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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(rare, medicine) prognosis
A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
A prediction of the future.
* Macaulay
One who predicts the future.
As an abbreviation m
is metre.As an adjective prognostic is
of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.As a noun prognostic is
prognosis.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=? }}prognostic
English
Alternative forms
* prognostick (obsolete)Synonyms
* foretelling * predictiveNoun
(en noun)- (Parr)
- Careful observers may foretell the hour
- (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.
- While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er
- Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Jonathan Swift
- The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.