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PEM

Date "PEM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references)

"PEM" is a common misspelling or typo for: pea, peg, pen, pep, per, perm, pet, pew, poem.


Specialty Definition: PEM

DomainDefinition

Computing

PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: PEM

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

PEM

EnglishPiezoelastic ModulationN/A

PEM

FrenchDivision Personnel et état-majorN/A

PEM

GermanMarasmusMedicine

PEM

ItalianPolioencefalomalaciaN/A

PEM

SpanishPerspectivas de la economía mundialEconomics

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: PEM

Specialty definitions using "PEM": cybercrudTLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PEM

DomainTitle

Books

  • Amatita pem kal gahaniya : ketikata ekatuvaki (reference)

  • Pem kala nohaki gahaniya (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: PEM

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Illustration of prototype machine to perform mammography by Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scan). Since this machine is used solely for mammography, it is called Positron Emission Mammography (PEM). Credit: Joseph Frank, NIH Diagnostic Imaging.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: PEM

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Brazil

Two of those lines received bids, and the winners (Copel and Pem Engenharia) will invest $57 million. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PEM

"PEM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PEM" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PEM

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pem

141

america,inc pem

4

pem fastener

63

nady pem 500

4

america pem

53

fuel pem

4

pem nut

37

cell exchange fuel membrane pem proton

4

america inc pem

36

exchange membrane pem proton

3

pem fuel cell

34

fastners pem

3

america pem quilt

13

hydrogen pem production

2

pem stud

9

air pem

2

pem insert

9

file pem

2

engineering pem

8

america comforter pem

2

pem fastening system

6

america.com pem

2

hardware pem

5

hartoy pem

2

america bedding pem

4

cell fuel hydrogen pem

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PEM

Language Translations for "PEM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

光"磁效". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

empay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PEM

Derivations

Words beginning with "PEM": pembina, pembinas, pemican, pemicans, pemmican, pemmicans, pemoline, pemolines, pemphigus, pemphiguses, pemphix, pemphixes. (additional references)

Words containing "PEM": copemate, copemates, elopement, elopements, escapement, escapements, hyperlipemia, hyperlipemias, hyperlipemic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PEM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-m-p"

-1 letter: em, me, pe.

 Words containing the letters "e-m-p"
 

+1 letter: hemp, kemp, mope, perm, poem, pome, temp.

 

+2 letters: ample, empty, hemps, hempy, imped, impel, kemps, kempt, maple, moped, moper, mopes, mopey, myope, perms, plume, poems, pomes, prime, proem, remap, sperm, spume, tempi, tempo, temps, tempt, umped.

 

+3 letters: ampere, ampler, ampule, bumped, bumper, camped, camper, coempt, comped, compel, damped, dampen, damper, decamp, deperm, dimple, dumped, dumper, empale, empery, empire, employ, encamp, epimer, eponym, exempt, gimped, guimpe, hamper, hempen, hempie, humped, impale, impede, impels, impend, imphee, impone, impose, impure, impute, jimper, jumped, jumper, lamped, limped, limper, limpet, lumped, lumpen, lumper, magpie, makeup, maples, mapped, mapper, megilp, metepa, metope, metump, mispen, mopeds, mopers, mopery, mopier, mopoke, mopped, mopper, moppet, mumped, mumper, myopes, optime, palmed, palmer, pamper, pelmet, penman, penmen, peplum, permed, permit, phenom, phlegm, phloem, pileum, pimped, pimple, pitmen, plenum, plumed, plumes, pneuma, pomace, pomade, pomelo, pommee, pommel, pommie, potmen, preamp, prearm, prelim, preman, premed, premen, premie, premix, primed, primer, primes, proems, pumelo, pumice, pummel, pumped, pumper, pyemia, pyemic, ramped, remaps, repump, revamp, rimple, romped, romper, rumple, sample, semple, sempre, septum, simper, simple, sperms, spirem, spumed, spumes, tamped, tamper, temped, tempeh, temper, temple, tempos, tempts, trompe, tumped, umpire, uptime, vamped, vamper, wimple.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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