MI

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mi"

Translingual

Symbol

MI

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Midway Atoll from 1974 to 1986.

   Synonym: MID (alpha-3)

Usage notes

The code was deprecated in favour of UM, the code for the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

English

Proper noun

MI

1. Abbreviation of Michigan, a state of the United States.

Noun

MI (countable and uncountable, plural MIs)

1. Initialism of middle initial.
2. (military) Initialism of military intelligence.
   • 2009, Karen Connelly, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story, Toronto: Random House Canada, →ISBN, page 108:

     Three months ago, after a minor argument between a small group of students and a tea shop owner, police arrived on the scene, arrested the students, and beat them up in a nearby police station. Apparently, the tea shop was owned by an MI agent.

3. (cardiology) Initialism of myocardial infarction.
4. (cardiology) Initialism of mitral insufficiency.
5. (dentistry) Initialism of mesioincisal.
6. (mathematics) Initialism of mathematical induction.
7. (medicine) Initialism of mechanical index.
8. (medicine) Initialism of medical inspection.
9. (information theory) Initialism of mutual information.
   • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 112:

     MI excludes words that frequently combine with many words (e.g. the), but can overemphasize low frequency collocation.

10. (baseball) Initialism of middle infielder.

Anagrams

• 'im, I'm, I. M., I.M., IM, Im, im-

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛmi]

Noun

MI (plural MI-k)

1. Initialism of mesterséges intelligencia (“artificial intelligence”): AI

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	MI	MI-k
accusative	MI-t	MI-ket
dative	MI-nek	MI-knek
instrumental	MI-vel	MI-kkel
causal-final	MI-ért	MI-kért
translative	MI-vé	MI-kké
terminative	MI-ig	MI-kig
essive-formal	MI-ként	MI-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	MI-ben	MI-kben
superessive	MI-n	MI-ken
adessive	MI-nél	MI-knél
illative	MI-be	MI-kbe
sublative	MI-re	MI-kre
allative	MI-hez	MI-khez
elative	MI-ből	MI-kből
delative	MI-ről	MI-kről
ablative	MI-től	MI-ktől
non-attributive possessive – singular	MI-é	MI-ké
non-attributive possessive – plural	MI-éi	MI-kéi

Possessive forms of MI

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	MI-m	MI-jeim (or MI-im)
2nd person sing.	MI-d	MI-jeid (or MI-id)
3rd person sing.	MI-je	MI-jei (or MI-i)
1st person plural	MI-nk	MI-jeink (or MI-ink)
2nd person plural	MI-tek	MI-jeitek (or MI-itek)
3rd person plural	MI-jük	MI-jeik (or MI-ik)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛm.i/

Noun

MI (plural MI-MI)

1. (education, Islam) Initialism of madrasah ibtidaiah.

Italian

Proper noun

MI ?

1. abbreviation of Milano (= Milan), a city and metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy

Anagrams

• im-