ME

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ME

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Montenegro since 2006.
    Synonym: MNE (alpha-3)

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  1. Abbreviation of Maine, a state of the United States of America.
  2. Abbreviation of Middle East.
  3. (linguistics) Initialism of Middle English.
  4. (computing) Windows ME (Millennium Edition).
    Alternative form: Me
  5. Initialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange)
  6. (fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect.
    • 2023, Sarah Stang, “Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Trilogy”, in Julia A. Empey, Russell J. A. Kilbourn, editors, Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond[1], Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:
      In ME technophobia (or perhaps more accurately, "cyborg-phobia") reaches its zenith with the design of the Reapers' techno-zombies, as they are mutated, abject monstrosities that exist to be fought and killed by the player. Humans who are infected by the Reapers mutate into "Husks," which look like zombies covered with visible blue cybernetic parts.

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  1. (astronomy) Earth mass: a unit of measurement, equal to the mass of planet Earth, which is 6×1024 kg or 3×10−6 M.
  2. (sum of parts) The mass of the Earth specifically.

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ME (countable and uncountable, plural MEs)

  1. Initialism of master of engineering.
  2. Initialism of managing editor.
  3. Initialism of medical examiner.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 52:
      The little M.E.’s man nodded, picked his bag off the deck and went back up the steps to the pier.
  4. Initialism of myalgic encephalomyelitis.
  5. Initialism of marriage encounter.
  6. (aerospace) Initialism of main engine.

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  • (myalgic encephalomyelitis): ME/CFS
  • (main engine): MECO (main engine cut-off)
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  • (main engine): SE (sustainer engine)
  • (master of engineering): BE (bachelor of engineering)

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ME

  1. (real estate listing) Abbreviation of Mieteinnahmen.