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Definition: ECM |
ECMNoun1. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | ECM |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ECM."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ECM | English | Extended Core Module | N/A |
ECM | French | Etude en commun de la Méditerranée | N/A |
ECM | Italian | Matrice extra cellulare | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ECMSynonym: electronic countermeasures (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: ECM |
| Specialty definitions using "ECM": error detection and correction. (references) |
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Music |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In addition, the RTN has a long-term plan to equip all of its battleships with ECM systems. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ECM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "ECM" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 63.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ecm | 278 |
automobile ecm | 42 |
ecm hs1 | 27 |
ecm record | 27 |
delta.com ecm | 18 |
ecm ms907 | 17 |
biofilms ecm | 17 |
ecm msd1 | 16 |
dish network ecm | 15 |
ecm ford | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ECM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Korean | 자 역 대책. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecmay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-m" | |
-1 letter: em, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-m" | |
+1 letter: acme, came, come, cyme, emic, mace, mice. | |
+2 letters: acmes, amice, camel, cameo, cames, cecum, celom, chemo, chime, chyme, cimex, clime, comae, combe, comer, comes, comet, comte, cream, creme, crime, cymae, cymes, emcee, hemic, maced, macer, maces, mache, macle, mecca, medic, melic, mercy, mesic, miche, mince. | |
+3 letters: acetum, acumen, aecium, almuce, amebic, amerce, amices, anemic, becalm, became, become, bemock, cabmen, caecum, caeoma, calmed, calmer, camber, camels, cameos, camera, camise, camlet, camped, camper, carmen, celoms, cement, centum, cerium, cermet, cesium, chemic, chemos, chimed, chimer, chimes, chrome, chymes, cinema, cleome, climes, coelom, coempt, comade, comake, comate, combed, comber, combes, comedo, comedy, comely, comers, cometh, comets, commie, comose, comped, compel, comtes, coombe, cormel, cowmen, crambe, creams, creamy, cremes, crimes, culmed, cumber, cummer, cymene, cymose, decamp, dermic, eczema, emceed, emcees, emetic, encamp, haemic, iceman, icemen, income, lyceum, macers, maches, mackle, macled, macles, macule, malice, manche, marcel, meccas, medick, medico, medics, menace, mensch, mercer, mescal, metric, mezcal, micell, miched, miches, mickey, mickle, minced, mincer, minces, miscue, mocked, mocker, muches, mucked, mucker, muckle, mucose, muscae, muscle, mycele, neumic, pomace, pumice, pyemic, raceme, recomb, rectum, sachem, samech, schema, scheme, schmoe, scream, socmen, tectum, uremic. | |
+4 letters: academe, academy, acumens, alchemy, alembic, almuces, ambsace, amerced, amercer, amerces, amesace, amnesic, amoebic, anaemic, becalms, becharm, becomes, becrime, bemocks, brecham, caeomas, caesium, calmest, calomel, calumet, camases, cambers, camelia, cameoed, camerae, cameral, cameras, camises, camlets, campers, campier, caramel, carmine, caromed, caveman, cavemen, cembali, cembalo, cementa, cements, centime, centimo, centrum, centums, ceramal, ceramic, ceriums, cermets, cerumen, cesiums, chamade, chamber, chamfer, chamise, champed, champer, chapmen, charmed, charmer, chasmed, chefdom, chemics, chemise, chemism, chemist, chetrum, chimera, chimere, chimers, chimley, chimney, chirmed, chomped, chomper, chromed, chromes, chummed, chumped, cimices, cinemas, claimed, claimer, clamber, clammed, clammer, clamped, clamper, clement, cleomes, climate, climbed, climber, clomped, clubmen, clumber, clumped, coelome, coeloms, coempts, columel, comaker, comakes, comates, combers, combine, comedic, comedos, cometic, comfier, comfrey, commend, comment, commies, commode, commove, commune, commute, compare, compeer, compels, compend, compere, compete, compile, complex, compone, compose, compote, compted, compute, comrade, condemn, consume, contemn, coombes, coremia, cormels, costume, crambes, crammed, crammer, cramped, creamed, creamer, cremate, crewman, crewmen, crimmer, crimped, crimper, crimple, crumbed, crumber, crumble, crummie, crumped, crumpet, crumple, cumbers, cummers, cymenes, decamps, decimal, declaim, decorum, decuman, demonic, demotic, dimeric, dormice, echoism, economy, ecthyma, eczemas, embolic, embrace, emetics, empiric, emplace, encamps, encomia, endemic, enzymic, excimer, exclaim, exosmic, gametic, genomic, grimace, hackmen, hematic, hemlock, impeach, incomer, incomes, keramic, kimchee, leucoma, lexemic, limbeck, lyceums, macaber, macabre, macaque, macchie, machete, machine, machree, mackled, mackles, macrame, maculae, maculed, macules, malefic, malices, manacle, manches, manchet, marcels, marched, marchen, marcher, marches, matched, matcher, matches, medevac, mediacy, medical, medicks, medicos, meiotic, melanic, melodic, menaced, menacer, menaces, menisci, mercers, mercery, mercies, mercury, meropic, mesarch, mescals, mesclun, mesonic, metical, metopic, metrics, mezcals, micella, micelle, micells, mickeys, mickler, mickles, microbe, mimetic, mincers, mincier, miracle, miscite, miscode, miscued, miscues, mockers, mockery, monocle, monoecy, mooched, moocher, mooches, morceau, mortice, mouched, mouches, muckers, muckier, muckles, mucosae, mucuses, mulched, mulches, mulcted, munched, muncher, munches, murices, muscled, muscles, mutches, myceles, mycelia, mycoses, nematic, numeric, outcome, packmen, pemican, polemic, pomaces, pumiced, pumicer, pumices, pyaemic, racemed, racemes, racemic, reclaim, reclame, recombs, rectums, rematch, rheumic, romance, sachems, samechs, scammed, scamped, scamper, schemas, schemed, schemer, schemes, schmear, schmeer, schmoes, screams, scumble, scummed, scummer, seismic, sematic, sememic, smacked, smacker, smectic, smocked, sockmen, spermic, taxemic, tectums, telomic, thermic, titmice, tonemic, totemic, toxemic, uraemic, vicomte, viremic, vomicae, welcome, zoecium. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 43 4D |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -.-. -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01000011 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E C M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0043 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)393747 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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