DM
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DM
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DM (countable and uncountable, plural DMs)
- (computing, DWH) Initialism of dimensional modeling.
- (logic) Initialism of De Morgan’s law.
- 2004 August, J. L. Schellenberg, “The Atheist’s Free Will Offence”, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, volume 56, № 1, pages 11-12:
- Let ‘F’ stand for the state of affairs that consists in finite persons possessing and exercising free will. Let ‘p’ stand for ‘God exists’; ‘q’ for ‘F obtains’; ‘r’ for ‘F poses a serious risk of evil’; and ‘s’ for ‘There is no option available to God that counters F.’ With this in place, the argument may be formalized as follows:
(1) [(p & q) & r] → s Premiss
(2) ~s Premiss
(3) ~[(p & q) & r] 1, 2 MT
(4) ~(p & q) v ~r 3 DM
(5) r Premiss
(6) ~(p & q) 4, 5 DS
(7) ~p v ~q 6 DM
(3) follows from the conjunction of (1) and (2) by modus tollens; De Morgan’s law applied to (3) yields (4); (4) and (5) together lead to (6) by disjunctive syllogism; and another application of De Morgan’s law takes us from (6) to the final conclusion, according to which either God exists or there is free will (but not both).
- (money) Initialism of Deutsche Mark.
- Synonym: (official banking code) DEM
- (nutrition) Initialism of dry matter.
- (pathology) Initialism of diabetes mellitus.
- (pathology) Initialism of dermatomyositis.
- (organic chemistry) adamsite, diphenylaminechlorarsine
- (physics, astronomy) Abbreviation of dark matter.
- (pharmacology) Abbreviation of dextromethorphan; also DXM.
- (rail transport, in multiple unit formations) driving motor car
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of dungeon master.
- (Internet) Initialism of direct message (type of message on social media platforms).
- 2012, Scott Stratten, Alison Kramer, UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging:
- He later sent me a DM mentioning that he would send me what he wears because he does a lot of walking. This is where the relationships online can get a wee bit weird.
- Initialism of duty manager.
- (philosophy) Initialism of dialectical materialism.
- (BDSM) Initialism of dungeon monitor.
- (colloquial) A Dr. Martens boot or shoe.
- 2012, W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh, Outsider, page 19:
- She kicked a hardback book with her left DM boot (14 eyelets were the minimum she would settle for), but the bestseller persisted in her path.
- (soccer) Initialism of defensive midfielder.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of divemaster.
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- (direct message): slide into the DMs
Verb edit
DM (third-person singular simple present DMs, present participle DMing, simple past and past participle DMed or DM'd)
- To Dungeon Master; to perform as a dungeon master; to run a tabletop role-playing game.
- Synonym: GM
- To communicate by direct message, usually on a social website.
- 2021 August 2, Tyrone Mings, quotee, “Tyrone Mings Opens Up over Mental Health Struggles ahead of Euro 2020”, in Yahoo! Sports[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2021:
- Rio [Ferdinand] DM’d me after the tournament. He’d said I was the weak link, and that Croatia should be targeting me.
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DM
- (UK) Initialism of Daily Mail. (a national newspaper)
- (linguistics) Initialism of Distributed Morphology.
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DM f (genitive DM, no plural)
- (money, historical) Initialism of Deutsche Mark.
- Coordinate term: M
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DM
- Initialism of Dīs Mānibus, to/for the Spirits of the Dead, to/for the Spirit of the Deceased.
Usage notes edit
Extremely common as an initial formula on classical and late Roman tombstones, both pagan and Christian. Compare SD in Roman letter-writing.
Further reading edit
- "How to Parse Dis Manibus Syntactically" at the Latin StackExchange