Noun
CM (countable and uncountable, plural CMs)
- (India, Pakistan) Initialism of chief minister.
- Coordinate term: PM (“prime minister”)
- (Canada) A member of the Order of Canada.
- (Japan) Initialism of commercial message.
- (chess) Initialism of Candidate Master.
- (astronautics) Initialism of command module.
- Coordinate terms: (related) LEM/LM, SM, OM
- (cryptography) Initialism of cryptographic module.
- (engineering, uncountable) Initialism of configuration management.
- (military) Initialism of cruise missile.
- Coordinate terms: (derived) CMCA, ALCM, GLCM, SLCM
- Coordinate terms: FFG, DDG, DLG, DHG, DEG, DCG, CCG, CLG, CAG, CHG, CBG, BCG, SSG, SSGN, CMCA
- (ring theory) Initialism of Cohen-Macaulay.
- (music, archaic) Initialism of common meter.
Etymology
From コマーシャルメッセージ (komāsharu messēji, literally “commercial message”).