"IBM" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈˌʌɪbiːˈɛm/ Audio: en-ca-IBM.ogg [Canada]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} IBM
  1. Initialism of International Business Machines. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: International Business Machines Categories (topical): IBM Translations (International Business Machines): آي بي إم (ʔay bī ʔem) [masculine] (Arabic), أيبيإم (ʔay bī ʔem) [masculine] (Arabic), アイ・ビー・エム (Ai-bī-emu) (Japanese), IBM [masculine, neuter] (Polish), Ай-Би-Э́м (Aj-Bi-Ém) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-IBM-en-name-P7jfscUG Disambiguation of IBM: 38 6 15 21 9 11 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 12 31 35 6 3 Disambiguation of 'International Business Machines': 84 11 5
  2. Initialism of International Brotherhood of Magicians. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: International Brotherhood of Magicians
    Sense id: en-IBM-en-name-PlTiw2Z9 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 12 31 35 6 3
  3. (geology) Initialism of Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc Categories (topical): Geology
    Sense id: en-IBM-en-name-lbpUZFzv Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 13 40 20 7 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 12 31 35 6 3 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: IBMer, IBMese, IBM-compatible, IBM PC, IBM Pollyanna Principle

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈˌʌɪbiːˈɛm/ Audio: en-ca-IBM.ogg [Canada] Forms: IBMs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} IBM (countable and uncountable, plural IBMs)
  1. (weaponry) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: intercontinental ballistic missile Categories (topical): Nuclear warfare, Weapons
    Sense id: en-IBM-en-noun-q54NZ9nB Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 12 31 35 6 3 Topics: engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
  2. (pathology) Initialism of inclusion body myositis. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: inclusion body myositis Categories (topical): Diseases
    Sense id: en-IBM-en-noun-Ryv9PNIT Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
  3. (figuratively) A company that dominates its field. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
    Sense id: en-IBM-en-noun-mH2keISD

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          "ref": "1990, William Elliott Butler, Perestroika and International Law, page 155",
          "text": "Thus, they limit to a strictly defined number the quantity of armed IBMs in the USSR and the United States, as well as ballistic missiles of submarines.",
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        }
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        "Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile."
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        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
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        "weaponry"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "word": "inclusion body myositis"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "en:Diseases"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of inclusion body myositis."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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          "pathology"
        ],
        [
          "inclusion body myositis",
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        ]
      ],
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
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      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1968, George Washington University, Computers-in-Law Institute, National Law Center, The Law of Software: 1968 Proceedings",
          "text": "Univac was the IBM of the computer industry's incipiency; in 1952 Univac had virtually 100% of the market."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, Tracy Kidder, The Soul Of A New Machine, page 238",
          "text": "First, to Sperry Univac, the descendent of the first real computer company, which might have become the IBM of the industry had it not blown its early lead;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Alfred Balk, The Myth of American Eclipse: The New Global Age, page 81",
          "text": "The US lead was mainly due to one firm, the IBM of its small, specialized field: Cray Research Inc.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A company that dominates its field."
      ],
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          "dominate",
          "dominate"
        ]
      ],
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        "(figuratively) A company that dominates its field."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "figuratively",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
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    },
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      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "IBM (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "IBM"
}

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