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CM or its variants may refer to:

Arts and media

Gaming

Music

Other media

  • Correio da Manhã, a Portuguese daily newspaper
  • Common metre, in poetry, an iambic metre consisting of four lines of length 8, 6, 8 and 6 syllables

Science and technology

Computing

Medicine

  • Centimorgan, a unit of recombinant frequency for measuring genetic linkage
  • Cervical mucus, a substance which plugs the opening of the cervix, changes in whose composition may affect conception
  • Cetyl myristoleate, a health supplement also abbreviated CMO
  • Chiari malformation, a narrowing of the skull which puts pressure on the cerebellum
  • Contingency management, a type of treatment where patients are rewarded (or, less often, punished) for their behavior
  • Contrast medium, substances used to enhance contrast in X-Ray imaging

Physics and chemistry

Units of measure

  • Centimetre a unit of length equal to one hundredth of a metre
  • Circular mil, a unit of area equal to the area of a circle with a diameter of one mil
  • Coulomb-metre (Cm), SI unit of electrical dipole moment
  • Centimorgan (cM), a unit for measuring genetic linkage

Other uses in science and technology

Organizations

People

In arts and entertainment

  • C. M. Hallard (1865–1942), a British actor
  • C. M. Leumane (died 1928), English born actor, singer, songwriter and librettist
  • C. M. Pennington-Richards (1911–2005), British film director and cinematographer
  • CM Murphy (born 1954), an Australian music and multimedia entrepreneur
  • CM Punk (born 1978), stage name of professional wrestler Phil Brooks

In government and politics

  • C. M. Chang (born 1942), an Indian politician, belonging to Nagaland People's Front
  • CM Ibrahim, a prominent Muslim politician in India during the 1990s
  • C. M. Sundaram (1919–2008), minister for local administration in Kerala from 1982 to 1987

In other fields

Places

  • Cameroon, which has the ISO and FIPS country code "CM"
    • .cm, the country code top-level domain for Cameroon
  • CM postcode area, central Essex, England

Titles and awards

Transportation

Other uses