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Where did the word m come from?

In the Semitic languages, the sign was called mem, meaning “water.” The Greeks gave the sign a symmetrical, balanced form without the tail (4). They named it mu. The Romans took the sign without change into Latin. From Latin the capital letter M came unchanged into English.

What does m stand for?

M is used as a logo by many rapid transit systems, standing for "Metro" (or equivalents in other languages.) ^ Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

What does m mean in Roman numerals?

The Roman numeral M represents the number 1000, though it was not used in Roman times. There is, however, scant evidence that the letter was later introduced in the early centuries A.D. by the Romans. m is the standard abbreviation for metre (or meter) in the International System of Units (SI).

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