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Cities

  • El Monte, California
    El Monte, California
    El Monte is a residential, industrial, and commercial city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city's slogan is "Welcome to Friendly El Monte," and historically is known as "The End of the Santa Fe Trail." As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 113,475,...

    , Los Angeles County, California, United States
  • El Monte, Chile, Talagante Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Codes

EM is:
  • Aero Benin
    Aero Benin
    Aero Benin is an airline based in Benin....

    , in IATA reservation code
  • Empire Airlines
    Empire Airlines
    Empire Airlines is a charter and cargo airline based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA. It operates over 120 scheduled and charter cargo flights a day in 18 US states and Canada. Its main base is Coeur d'Alene Airport with a hub at Spokane International Airport....

    , in IATA reservation code, a charter and cargo airline based in Idaho, US
  • London Interbank Offered Rate
    London Interbank Offered Rate
    The LIBOR rate is the average interest rate that leading banks in London charge when lending to other banks. It is an acronym for London Interbank Offered Rate Banks borrow money for one day, one month, two months, six months, one year etc. and they pay interest to their lenders based on...

     futures contract
    Futures contract
    In finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract between two parties to exchange a specified asset of standardized quantity and quality for a price agreed today with delivery occurring at a specified future date, the delivery date. The contracts are traded on a futures exchange...

    s, in Reuters Instrument Code for the 1-month at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Computing

  • , the HTML tag for emphasis
    Emphasis (typography)
    In typography, emphasis is the exaggeration of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text—to emphasize them.- Methods and use :...

  • The typographical em unit as used in CSS
  • End of Medium (^Y), an ISO C0 control code
  • Empirical modelling
    Empirical modelling
    Empirical modelling refers to any kind of modelling based on empirical observations rather than on mathematically describable relationships of the system modelled.-EM:...

  • Expectation maximization

Media

  • Em (cartoon)
    Em (cartoon)
    Em is a cartoon strip written by Maria Smedstad, which depicts the life of a young woman and her friends living in London. It was first published in thelondonpaper on 30 October 2006, and appeared daily until the paper's demise on 18 September 2009. It was then published in The Sun until January...

    , a comic strip by Maria Smedstad featured daily in thelondonpaper till September 2009, and on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in The Sun since then
  • Epic Movie
    Epic Movie
    Epic Movie is a 2007 American parody film directed and written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer and produced by Paul Schiff. It was made in a similar style to Date Movie, Friedberg and Seltzer's previous film. The film mostly references The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the...

    , 2007 American comedy film
  • Extreme Makeover
    Extreme Makeover
    Extreme Makeover is a television program from ABC in which individuals volunteered to receive an extensive makeover in Hollywood. The show was created by television producer Howard Schultz. It first aired as a television special. It began airing in 2002 on Thursday nights at 8pm. A total of 55...

    , a former television program from ABC in which individuals volunteer to receive an extensive makeover in Hollywood

Music

  • E major
    E major
    E major is a major scale based on E, with the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has four sharps .Its relative minor is C-sharp minor, and its parallel minor is E minor....

     (EM) and E minor
    E minor
    E minor is a minor scale based on the note E. The E natural minor scale consists of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. The E harmonic minor scale contains the natural 7, D, rather than the flatted 7, D – to align with the major dominant chord, B7 .Its key signature has one sharp, F .Its...

     (Em), musical scales
  • Electronic music
    Electronic music
    Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

    , music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production
  • Eminem
    Eminem
    Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...

     (a.k.a Slim Shady), an American rapper
  • Encyclopaedia Metallum
    Encyclopaedia Metallum
    Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music...

    , an online metal music database

Organizations

  • EM Microelectronics, a Swiss semiconductor manufacturer specialized in the design and production of ultra-low-power integrated circuit
    Integrated circuit
    An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...

    s
  • European Movement
    European Movement
    The European Movement International is a lobbying association that coordinates the efforts of associations and national councils with the goal of promoting European integration, and disseminating information about it.-History:...

    , an international lobbying association that coordinates the efforts of associations and private individuals desiring to work towards the construction of a united Europe
  • Escuela Movil, a Mexican Research and Development Center specialized in storage of information inside fluids, and computing and telecommunications via fluids.

People

  • David Em
    David Em
    -Life and work:David Em is one of the first artists to make art with pixels. He was born in Los Angeles and grew up in South America. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and film directing at the American Film Institute....

     (born 1952), American computer art pioneer
  • Ea Mikael (EM), Finnish musician

Atmospheric sciences

  • Atlantic Equatorial mode
    Atlantic Equatorial mode
    The Atlantic Equatorial mode or Atlantic Niño is a quasiperiodic internnual climate pattern of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. It is a similar but weaker phenomenon than the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and is characterized by two modes of either warmer or cooler than average sea surface temperature ...

    , a climate pattern of the tropical Atlantic Ocean analogous to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Biology

  • Effective microorganism
    Effective microorganism
    An effective microorganism refers to any of the predominantly anaerobic organisms blended in commercial agricultural amendments, medicines, and nutritional supplements based on the trademarked product originally marketed as EM-1 Microbial Inoculant, aka Effective Microorganisms and EM Technology...

    s, a brand name for a series of products intended to improve soil quality and plant growth by a (yet scientifically unconfirmed) method of using a mixture of microorganisms

Linguistics

  • Em
    M
    M is the thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu . Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water...

    , the name of M / m, the thirteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet, in English and other languages
    • Em (Cyrillic)
      Em (Cyrillic)
      Em is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.Em commonly represents the bilabial nasal consonant , like the pronunciation of ⟨m⟩ in "him".It is derived from the Greek letter Mu ....

       (М / м), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet that directly corresponds to the Latin alphabet letter "M" and is pronounced similarly
  • Em (digraph), a digraph in Portuguese
  • Em, the third-person plural objective Spivak pronoun
    Spivak pronoun
    The Spivak pronouns are a proposed set of gender-neutral pronouns in English popularized by LambdaMOO based on pronouns used by Michael Spivak. Though not in widespread use, they have been employed in gender-neutral language by some people who dislike the more common alternatives "he/she" or...


Mathematics

  • Expectation-maximization algorithm
    Expectation-maximization algorithm
    In statistics, an expectation–maximization algorithm is an iterative method for finding maximum likelihood or maximum a posteriori estimates of parameters in statistical models, where the model depends on unobserved latent variables...

    , in statistics, an algorithm used for finding maximum likelihood estimates of parameters in probabilistic models

Medicine

  • Emergency medicine
    Emergency medicine
    Emergency medicine is a medical specialty in which physicians care for patients with acute illnesses or injuries which require immediate medical attention. While not usually providing long-term or continuing care, emergency medicine physicians diagnose a variety of illnesses and undertake acute...

    , a specialty of medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses and injuries that require immediate medical attention
  • Erythema multiforme
    Erythema multiforme
    Erythema multiforme is a skin condition of unknown cause, possibly mediated by deposition of immune complex in the superficial microvasculature of the skin and oral mucous membrane that usually follows an infection or drug exposure...

    , a skin condition that usually follows an antecedent infection or drug exposure

Physics

  • Electromagnetism
    Electromagnetism
    Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental interactions in nature. The other three are the strong interaction, the weak interaction and gravitation...

    :
    • A fundamental physical force that is responsible for interactions between charged particles
    • Magnetism developed by an electrical current (such as in an electromagnet
      Electromagnet
      An electromagnet is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by the flow of electric current. The magnetic field disappears when the current is turned off...

      )

  • Electromagnetic force:
    • The force that the electromagnetic field exerts on electrically charged particles

Technology

  • Electromigration
    Electromigration
    Electromigration is the transport of material caused by the gradual movement of the ions in a conductor due to the momentum transfer between conducting electrons and diffusing metal atoms. The effect is important in applications where high direct current densities are used, such as in...

    , the transport of conducting solid material caused by electric current through it
  • Electron microscope
    Electron microscope
    An electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses a beam of electrons to illuminate the specimen and produce a magnified image. Electron microscopes have a greater resolving power than a light-powered optical microscope, because electrons have wavelengths about 100,000 times shorter than...

    , a type of microscope that uses electrons to "illuminate" a specimen and create an enlarged image
  • Electron multiplier
    Electron multiplier
    An electron multiplier is a vacuum-tube structure that multiplies incident charges. In a process called secondary emission, a single electron can, when bombarded on secondary emissive material, induce emission of roughly 1 to 3 electrons...

    , a vacuum-tube structure that multiplies incident charges by means of secondary emission
  • Exametre or exameter (Em), an SI unit of length equal to 1018 metres
  • Nikon EM
    Nikon EM
    The Nikon EM is a beginner’s level, interchangeable lens, 35 mm film, single lens reflex camera. It was manufactured by Nippon Kogaku K. K. in Japan from 1979 to 1982 . The camera was originally designed and marketed to the growing market of new women photographers then entering the SLR buyer's...

    , an SLR camera made by the Nikon Corporation in the late 1970s

Typography

  • Em (typography)
    Em (typography)
    An em is a unit of measurement in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size.The name of em is related to M. Originally the unit was derived from the width of the capital "M" in the given typeface....

    , a unit of measurement used in typography (and, consequently, web design), usually the height of the typeface (font) in question, but originally based on the width of its capital letter M, thus its name
    • Em dash (), a dash which is one em wide
    • Em space ( ) or mutton, a space which is one em wide

Miscellaneous

  • Em, a common short form of some given names, e.g. Emma, Emily, Emmett, Emmanuel, Emerson
  • EM gauge
    EM gauge
    EM gauge is a variant of 4 mm to a foot scale used in model railways....

    , a variant of 1:76 scale used in model railways
  • Emergency management
    Emergency management
    Emergency management is the generic name of an interdisciplinary field dealing with the strategic organizational management processes used to protect critical assets of an organization from hazard risks that can cause events like disasters or catastrophes and to ensure the continuance of the...

    , a discipline that studies dealing with and avoiding risks
  • Emerging markets
    Emerging markets
    Emerging markets are nations with social or business activity in the process of rapid growth and industrialization. Based on data from 2006, there are around 28 emerging markets in the world . The economies of China and India are considered to be the largest...

    , a term used to describe a nation's social, or business activity in the process of rapid industrialization
  • Environmental management
    Environmental management
    Environmental resource management is “a purposeful activity with the goal to maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by human activities” . It is not, as the phrase suggests, the management of the environment as such, but rather the management of the interaction and...

    , the management of interaction by the modern human societies with, and impact upon the environment
  • ERASMUS Mundus
    Erasmus Mundus
    The European Union's Erasmus Mundus programme aims to enhance quality in higher educationthrough scholarships and academic co-operation between Europe and the rest of the world.Erasmus Mundus comprises three Actions:-Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes:...

    , a students exchange program, the international counterpart of the ERASMUS programme
  • Electrician's Mate
    Electrician's Mate
    Electrician's Mate is a United States Navy and United States Coast Guard occupational rating.Electrician's Mates stand watch on generators, switchboards, control equipment and electrical equipment; operate and perform organizational and intermediate maintenance on power and lighting circuits,...

    , a rating in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard
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