pm : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pm	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for pm
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
PM n an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease Synonym(s): autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium Synonym(s): promethium, Pm, atomic number 61 the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom Synonym(s): Prime Minister, PM, premier modulation of the phase of the carrier wave Synonym(s): phase modulation, PM
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
PM /P-M/ 1. v. (from `preventive maintenance') To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes. See {provocative maintenance}; see also {scratch monkey}. 2. n. Abbrev. for `Presentation Manager', an {elephantine} OS/2 graphical user interface.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PM 1. {preventive maintenance}. 2. {Presentation Manager} 3. ["PM, A System for Polynomial Manipulations", G.E. Collins, CACM 9(8):578-589 (Aug 1966)]. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
pm The {country code} for St. Pierre and Miquelon. (1999-01-27)