"ECM" meaning in English

See ECM in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} ECM
  1. (economics, European Union) Initialism of European Common Market. Tags: European-Union, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: European Common Market
    Sense id: en-ECM-en-name-SXsHwDHu Categories (other): Economics, European Union, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 0 1 6 21 20 4 1 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 0 1 3 21 20 3 1 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 39 0 1 3 21 20 3 1 13 Topics: economics, sciences

Noun

Forms: ECMs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} ECM (countable and uncountable, plural ECMs)
  1. Initialism of engine control module. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: engine control module
    Sense id: en-ECM-en-noun-A-LxlbAf
  2. (materials science) Abbreviation of engineered cellular magmatic. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: engineered cellular magmatic
    Sense id: en-ECM-en-noun-EYjRaRHD Categories (other): Materials science
  3. (computing) Initialism of enterprise content management. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: enterprise content management
    Sense id: en-ECM-en-noun-PV~PjLcF Categories (other): Computing Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  4. (grammar) Initialism of exceptional case-marking. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: exceptional case-marking
    Sense id: en-ECM-en-noun-XmP1HJ5J Categories (other): Grammar Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  5. (medicine) Initialism of extracellular matrix. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: extracellular matrix
    Sense id: en-ECM-en-noun-9hDNZ99W Categories (other): Medicine Topics: medicine, sciences
  6. (astronomy) Abbreviation of extra-cluster medium. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: extra-cluster medium
    Sense id: en-ECM-en-noun-fubUhL8b Categories (other): Astronomy Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
  7. (military) Initialism of Electronic countermeasure. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: Electronic countermeasure
    Sense id: en-ECM-en-noun-fzW1AYpl Categories (other): Military Topics: government, military, politics, war
  8. (mathematics) Initialism of elliptic curve method. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: elliptic curve method
    Sense id: en-ECM-en-noun-fv7JolIP Categories (other): Mathematics Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ECU (english: engine control unit) Related terms: BCM (english: body control module), EGM [extragalactic-medium, cosmology, astronomy, natural-sciences], ICM (english: intracluster medium), IGM (english: intergalactic medium), IPM (english: interplanetary medium), ISM (english: interstellar medium)

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (a681f8a and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.