3-letter words that end in m
- pim — personal information manager.
- pom — pommy.
- ppm — Portable Pixmap
- pvm — Parallel Virtual Machine
- pym — John, 1584–1643, English statesman.
- qam — 1. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation. 2. Quality Assurance Management.
- qom — a city in NW Iran, SW of Teheran, on the Qom river.
- qsm — Queen's Service Medal
- qum — a city in NW Iran, SW of Teheran, on the Qom river.
- ram — random-access memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data, in which time of access to each item is independent of the storage sequence. As a storage medium, RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when the power fails or is turned off.
- rcm — Royal College of Music
- rem — rapid eye movement.
- rim — the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- rkm — Rom Kernel Manual
- rmm — Mali (international car registration)
- rom — Read-Only Memory
- rpm — revolution per minute
- rsm — regimental sergeant major
- rtm — 1. [Usenet] Read The Manual. Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert T. Morris Jr. The perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm); villain to many, naive hacker gone wrong to a few. Morris claimed that the worm that brought the Internet to its knees was a benign experiment that got out of control as the result of a coding error. After the storm of negative publicity that followed this blunder, Morris's user name on ITS was hacked from RTM to RTFM.
- rum — Arabic name of Rome, once used to designate the Byzantine Empire.
- s/m — (sexual) sadism and masochism; sadomasochism
- sam — System Account Manager
- sbm — Solution Based Modelling
- scm — 1. (business) Supply Chain Management. 2. (language) A Scheme interpreter in C by Aubrey Jaffer and others. SCM conforms to R4RS and IEEE P1178 and includes a conformance test. It is distributed under GPL. Version 5d0 runs under Amiga, Atari-ST, MacOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, NOS/VE, Unicos, VMS, Unix, and similar systems.
- sem — Shem.
- sgm — Sergeant Major
- shm — simple harmonic motion
- sim — Subscriber Identity Module
- smm — System Management Mode
- som — System Object Model. An implementation of CORBA by IBM.
- spm — Sequential Parlog Machine
- ssm — surface-to-surface missile
- stm — Master of Sacred Theology
- sum — the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition: The sum of 6 and 8 is 14.
- sym — symbol
- tam — tam-o'-shanter.
- tcm — Trellis Code Modulation
- tdm — 1. Technical Data Management 2. Time Division Multiplexing
- thm — Master of Theology
- tim — a male given name, form of Timothy.
- tom — Alvan, 1804–87, and his son Alvan Graham, 1832–97, U.S. astronomers and telescope-lens manufacturers.
- tqm — TQM is a set of management principles aimed at improving performance throughout a company, especially by involving employees in decision-making. TQM is an abbreviation for 'total quality management'.
- tum — to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- tvm — television movie: a film made specifically for television, and not intended for release in cinemas
- uam — underwater-to-air missile
- udm — Union of Democratic Mineworkers
- ulm — a city in E Baden-Württemberg, in S Germany, on the Danube.
- usm — Unlisted Securities Market
- vbm — Virtual Beit Midrash
- vbm — Virtual Beit Midrash