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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border
Synonyms:
Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "NM"):
Pecos; Pecos River (a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas)
Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)
Guadalupe Mountains (a mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas; the southern extension of the Sacramento Mountains)
Gila; Gila River (a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River)
Colorado Plateau (a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner)
Cimarron; Cimarron River (a river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River)
Carlsbad Caverns (a group of caverns in southeastern New Mexico noted for their stalactites and stalagmites)
Canadian; Canadian River (a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma)
Brazos; Brazos River (a river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico)
Chihuahuan Desert (a desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico)
Taos (an artist colony in northern New Mexico)
Silver City (a town in southwestern New Mexico)
capital of New Mexico; Santa Fe (capital of the state of New Mexico; located in north central New Mexico)
Roswell (a town in southeast New Mexico)
Los Alamos (a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced)
Las Cruces (a town in southern New Mexico on the Rio Grande)
Gallup (a town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border)
Farmington (a town in northwestern New Mexico)
Carlsbad (a town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border; potash deposits)
Albuquerque (the largest city in New Mexico; located in central New Mexico on the Rio Grande river)
Sacramento Mountains (mountain range in New Mexico to the east of the Rio Grande)
Carlsbad Caverns National Park (a national park in New Mexico featuring what is probably the world's largest cavern with spectacular underground formations)
Wheeler Peak (a mountain peak in northeastern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains)
Holonyms ("NM" is a part of...):
Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado)
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter
Synonyms:
micromillimeter; micromillimetre; millimicron; nanometer; nanometre; nm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("nm" is a kind of...):
metric linear unit (a linear unit of distance in metric terms)
Meronyms (parts of "nm"):
A; angstrom; angstrom unit (a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation)
Holonyms ("nm" is a part of...):
micrometer; micron (a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter)
Context examples:
Virions are enveloped, ether-sensitive, and vary up to 200 nm in diameter; the nucleocapsids are 100 nm in diameter and of icosahedral symmetry, with 162 capsomeres.
(Herpesvirus, NCI Thesaurus)
A sterile solution of a nontoxic tricarbocyanine dye with a peak spectral absorption at 790 nm, with application in determining cardiac output, hepatic function, liver blood flow, as well as ophthalmic angiography.
(Indocyanine Green Solution, NCI Thesaurus)
Any one of the hepatitis B antigens found on the surface of the Dane particle and on the 20 nm spherical and tubular particles.
(Hepatitis B Virus HBsAg Surface Protein Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)
The chromatin fiber has a thickness of about 30 nanometers and results from the folding of a linear array of nucleosomes (thickness about 10 nm) into a more compact fiber.
(Chromatin Fiber, NCI Thesaurus)
The finest filamentous element of the cytoskeleton, having a diameter of about 5 nm and consisting primarily of actin.
(Actin Filament, NCI Thesaurus)
According to the researchers, this threshold is higher than the standard cutoff for diagnosing folate deficiency (less than 10 nm/L).
(Proper maternal folate level may reduce child obesity risk, NIH)
They were also able to view fluorescently labeled human cytomegaloviruses, which range from 150 to 300 nm in diameter.
(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)
This strain of viridae is a non-pathogenic human parvovirus that is icosahedral, 20-25 nm in diameter, minus sense, and comprised of a 5 kb. single-stranded DNA genome.
(Adeno-Associated Virus Type 2, NCI Thesaurus)
When the catalytic heme is reduced the absorbance peak for this protein occurs at 450 nm.
(Cytochrome P450, NCI Thesaurus)
The carrier peptides may condense plasmids into nano-particles with a hydrodynamic diameter ranging from 40 to 200 nm, which are sterically stable for long periods of time.
(DNA Compaction Peptide, NCI Thesaurus)
