STM

English

Noun

STM (countable and uncountable, plural STMs)

1. (microscopy) Initialism of scanning tunneling microscope.
2. (train control) Initialism of specific transmission module.
3. (publishing industry) Initialism of scientific, technical, and medicine.
4. (physical therapy) Initialism of soft tissue mobilization.
5. (cognitive science) Initialism of short-term memory.

   Coordinate term: LTM

   • 2021, Stephen Grossberg, Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 62:

     The distinction between STM and LTM should not be taken for granted. Due to the strong interactions between these distinct processes, they can be confused or lumped together.

Hyponyms

• (train control): SE, SN

Anagrams

• MST, MTS, MTs, Mst., Mts, Mts., SMT, TMS, TMs, mts, mts.

French

Proper noun

STM f

1. (transport) Initialism of Société de transport de Montréal.; the MTC; the transit corporation for the island and megacity of Montreal; in 2002 it replaced the STCUM

See also

• CTM
• SPVM
• Montréal

Anagrams

• MST