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Definition: Lcm |
LcmNoun1. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers; "the least common multiple of 12 and 18 is 36". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
LCM | Dutch | Lymfocytaire chorio-meningitis | N/A |
LCM | English | Lasker's Chess Magazine | N/A |
LCM | German | Lymphozitäre choriomeningitis | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LcmSynonyms: least common multiple (n), lowest common multiple (n). (additional references) |
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![]() | Francis X. Popper on LCM on deck of LSD on way to Mindanao Regimental navigator for Army amphibious engineers.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | "D-Day" scene on "Red" Beach at Gela, Sicily, 10 July 1943. USS LCI(L)-220 is broached at left, with a LCM from USS Bellatrix (AKA-3) unloading just off her bow. Two LCVPs are also broached along the surf line. Note jeep in center and 5-gallon fuel cans. Photographed by Osborne.Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Broached landing craft, following landings on Pokai Beach, Waianae, Oahu, 25-26 October 1949. Children are playing by a USS Noble (APA-218) LCM in the foreground. LCVP in the middle distance is from USS Bexar (APA-237). Photographed by Ted Huggins.Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Troops march up the beach at Adak, during pre-invasion loading for the Kiska Operation, 13 August 1943. Photographed by Lt. Horace Bristol, USNR, of the Steichen photographic unit. LCM behind the soldiers is from USS Zeilin (APA-3). USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) is in the far right distance. Note the troops' packs and M1 rifles.Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Tied to a mooring bouy at Holy Loch, Scotland, circa April 1966. She has two submarines, an LCM and other vessels alongside.Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Photographed at the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, circa February 1954, with USS Yorktown (CVA-10) at right and eleven LCM landing craft in the foreground. Grumman AF "Guardian" anti-submarine aircraft are parked on Sicily's flight deck. Douglas AD "Skyraider" attack planes are parked aft on Yorktown's flight deck. The original caption, released by Commander Naval Forces Far East on 18 February 1954, reads: "Twins, Almost -- The Essex-class carrier USS Yorktown (CVA-10) and her smaller counterpart, the escort carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118), rest side by side during a recent in-port maintenance period at the Yokosuka, Japan, Naval Base".Credit: NAVY. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | LCM is usually not fatal. (references) | |
There is no specific drug therapy for LCM. Anti-inflammatory drugs, such as corticosteroids, may be considered under specific circumstances. (references) | ||
Understanding the epidemiology of LCM and LCMV infections will help to further delineate risk factors for infection and develop effective preventive strategies. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lcm": LCM-Lassa Complex Viruses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
lcm | 68 |
lcm px | 13 |
cmecourses.com lcm | 9 |
lcm truck | 9 |
lcm trva | 6 |
8 lcm | 5 |
6 lcm | 5 |
lcm pcy3 | 4 |
lcm pcy2 | 4 |
lcm part truck | 4 |
lcm trvy | 2 |
ipa lcm | 2 |
3 lcm | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-m" | |
+1 letter: calm, clam, culm. | |
+2 letters: calms, camel, celom, claim, clamp, clams, climb, clime, clomb, clomp, clump, comal, culms, cymol, locum, macle, malic, melic, milch, mulch, mulct. | |
+3 letters: almuce, amylic, becalm, calami, calmed, calmer, calmly, camail, camels, camlet, celoms, chimla, cilium, claims, clammy, clamor, clamps, cleome, climax, climbs, climes, clomps, clumps, clumpy, clumsy, coelom, column, comely, compel, comply, copalm, cormel, culmed, cumuli, cymbal, cymlin, cymols, filmic, holmic, lactam, limbic, limnic, locums, lyceum, mackle, macled, macles, macula, macule, malice, marcel, mescal, mezcal, micell, mickle, moloch, muchly, muckle, mucluc, mulcts, muscle, muscly, mycele, talcum. | |
+4 letters: acclaim, alchemy, alchymy, alembic, almanac, almuces, armlock, baculum, becalms, bulimic, calamar, calamus, calcium, calmest, calming, calomel, calumet, calumny, camails, cambial, camelia, cameral, camlets, camphol, campily, caramel, cembali, cembalo, ceramal, chasmal, chillum, chimbly, chimlas, chimley, chlamys, chromyl, claimed, claimer, clamant, clamber, clammed, clammer, clamors, clamour, clamped, clamper, clement, cleomes, climate, climbed, climber, clomped, clonism, clubman, clubmen, clumber, clumped, coelome, coeloms, columel, columns, comical, compels, compile, complex, complin, complot, copalms, cormels, coulomb, crimple, crumble, crumbly, crumple, crumply, culming, cultism, cumulus, cymbals, cymling, cymlins, decimal, declaim, domical, domicil, embolic, emplace, exclaim, fulcrum, hemlock, lactams, laicism, leucoma, lexemic, limacon, limbeck, lockram, locoism, lyceums, mackled, mackles, maculae, macular, maculas, maculed, macules, magical, malacca, malefic, malices, manacle, marcels, medical, melanic, melodic, mescals, mesclun, metical, mezcals, micella, micelle, micells, mickler, mickles, midcult, milchig, mimical, miracle, miscall, mochila, mollusc, molochs, monocle, muckily, muckles, muclucs, mucosal, mulched, mulches, mulcted, mullock, muscled, muscles, musical, myalgic, myceles, mycelia, oilcamp, osculum, plasmic, plumbic, polemic, psalmic, reclaim, reclame, schlump, schmalz, scumble, talcums, telomic, unclamp, upclimb, welcome. | |
+5 letters: acclaims, aceldama, aciculum, acromial, alchemic, alembics, almanacs, aluminic, amelcorn, amicable, amicably, analcime, animalic, armlocks, atomical, baculums, balsamic, becalmed, bechamel, beclamor, blackgum, bulimiac, bulimics, cabalism, cacomixl, caladium, calamari, calamars, calamary, calamine, calamint, calamite, calamity, calciums, calmness, calomels, calumets, camailed, cameleer, camelias, camellia, camisole, camomile, camphols, caramels, carbamyl, cellmate, celomata, cembalos, ceramals, chemical, chiasmal, chiliasm, chillums, chimbley, chimleys, chloasma, chrismal, chromyls, chummily, cimbalom, cingulum, cinnamyl, claimant, claimers, claiming, clambake, clambers, clammers, clammier, clammily, clamming, clamored, clamorer, clamours, clampers, clamping, clamworm, clansman, clansmen, classism, claymore, clematis, clemency, clerkdom, climatal, climates, climatic, climaxed, climaxes, climbers, climbing, clomping, clonisms, clubroom, clumbers, clumpier, clumping, clumpish, clumsier, clumsily, coagulum, coelomes, coelomic, coemploy, coliform, coliseum, coloboma, colorism, colorman, colormen, colotomy, columbic, columels, columnal, columnar, columned, comatula, comblike, comelier, comelily, comingle, comitial, commonly, communal, compiled, compiler, compiles, complain, compleat, complect, complete, complice, complied, complier, complies, compline, complins, complots, cormlike, cornmeal, cosmical, coulombs, creamily, criminal, crimpled, crimples, cromlech, crumbled, crumbles, crumpled, crumples, cultisms, cumulate, cumulous, custumal, cyclamen, cymbaler, cymbalom, cymbling, cymlings, cymosely, dalmatic, decimals, declaims, dilemmic, disclaim, domicile, domicils, dulcimer, electrum, emplaced, emplaces, exclaims, filmcard, flamenco, fulcrums, fulminic, furculum, glaucoma, glucinum, gnomical, hemlocks, hemocoel, imbecile, implicit, impolicy, inchmeal, inimical, inoculum, laconism, lacrimal, laicisms, lambency, lechayim, lemnisci, leucemia, leucemic, leucomas, leukemic, limacine, limacons, limbecks, limerick, limnetic, lithemic, localism, lockrams, locoisms, locomote, logomach, lutecium, lyricism, mackerel, mackling, macrural, maculate, maculing, maiolica, majolica, malaccas, maledict, manacled, manacles, manciple, mandalic, maniacal, marlitic, masscult, medallic, medicals, melanics, mellific, melodica, meniscal, merciful, mescluns, metallic, methylic, meticals, metrical, micellae, micellar, micelles, micklest, microlux, midcults, millcake, millrace, miracles, miscalls, miscible, misclaim, misclass, miscolor, misplace, mochilas, mockable, molecule, molluscs, molybdic, monachal, monocled, monocles, mooncalf, mucilage, muckluck, mucoidal, mulching, mulcting, mullocks, mullocky, multicar, muscadel, muscatel, muscling, muscular, musicale, musicals, mycelial, mycelian, mycelium, myceloid, mycology, myelinic, myologic, mystical, mysticly, mythical, normalcy, oilcamps, outclimb, outclomb, peculium, picloram, picomole, placeman, placemen, plectrum, polemics, proclaim, pulmonic, reclaims, reclames, schlumps, schmaltz, schmalzy, schmelze, scholium, sciolism, scleroma, scolioma, scramble, scumbled, scumbles, scumlike, semplice, silicium, solecism, speculum, spiculum, symbolic, talmudic, thalamic, ultimacy, umbilici, unclamps, uncomely, upclimbs, vasculum, vinculum, vocalism, welcomed, welcomer, welcomes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 63 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)01001100 01100011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L c m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0063 006D |
| 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)466979 |
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