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SM (plural SMs)
- (US, space science) Initialism of service module.
- (music) Initialism of short meter.
- (science fiction) Initialism of space marine.
- (theater) Initialism of stage manager.
- 2022 December 24, Richard Jennings, “Music for Plays, a Step-by-Step Guide”, in American Theatre[1]:
- Obtain contact information for the people you will be working with directly: director, production manager, stage manager (SM), soundboard operator (SO), and dance and fight choreographers. […] Early in the process is the time to ask the stage manager their preference for labeling music cues (numerically or alphabetically). The SM will have a system for calling cues: […].
- Initialism of sexual minority (“non-heterosexual”). (Also used attributively.)
- 2016, Kristen Eckstrand, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Healthcare: A Clinical Guide to Preventive, Primary, and Specialist Care, Springer, →ISBN, page 99:
- Transmission of HPV between female partners is possible and has been documented. There exists a higher proportion of current or former smokers among sexual minority (SM) women, a known risk factor for cervical cancer.
- Alternative form of S&M (“sadomasochism”)
- 1980 April 12, Audre Lorde, “On The Erotic”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
- SM is not the sharing of power, it is merely a depressing replay of the old and destructive dominant/subordinate mode of human relating and one-sided power.
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- (physics) Initialism of Standard Model.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Sun and Moon.
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- (Pokémon): SuMo
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- (Service module): Service Module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- Initialism of Suomen mestaruus, Finnish championship series
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- Jääkiekon SM-liiga on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia fi
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- Abbreviation of Satu Mare, a county in Romania.
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SM f (plural SSMM)
- Initialism of su majestad (“his/her majesty”).
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- Initialism of svenskt mästerskap (“Swedish championship”); a Swedish championship (where a Swedish champion is established)
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Loosely defined in general (like "American championship"), but typically involves (mostly) Swedish contestants.