M vs Retention - 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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The act of retaining or something retained
* 1599 , , II. iv. 95:
The act or power of remembering things
A memory; what is retained in the mind
(medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces
(obsolete) That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.
(obsolete) The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.
* 1599 , , V. i. 79:
(obsolete) A place of custody or confinement.
(legal) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
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 noun retention is
the act of retaining or something retained.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=? }}retention
English
(wikipedia retention)Noun
(en noun)- No woman's heart / So big, to hold so much; they lack retention .
- (Shakespeare)
- His life I gave him, and did thereto add / My love without retention or restraint,
- (Erskine)
- (Craig)