# EM

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**EM**, **Em** or **em** may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

### Music

- Em, the [E minor](/source/E_minor) musical scale
- Em, the E [minor chord](/source/Minor_chord)
- [Electronic music](/source/Electronic_music), music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production
- [Encyclopedia Metallum](/source/Encyclopedia_Metallum), an online metal music database
- [Eminem](/source/Eminem), American rapper

### Other uses in arts and entertainment

- [*Em* (comic strip)](/source/Em_(comic_strip)), a comic strip by Maria Smedstad

## Companies and organizations

- [Em (restaurant)](/source/Em_(restaurant)), a restaurant in Mexico City
- [Aero Benin](/source/Aero_Benin) (IATA code), a defunct airline
- [Empire Airlines](/source/Empire_Airlines) (IATA code), a charter and cargo airline based in Idaho, US
- [Erasmus Mundus](/source/Erasmus_Mundus), an international student-exchange program
- *[Estado de Minas](/source/Estado_de_Minas)*, a Brazilian newspaper
- [European Movement](/source/European_Movement), an international lobbying association
- [ExxonMobil](/source/ExxonMobil), a large oil company formed from the merger of Exxon and Mobil in 1999
- [La République En Marche!](/source/La_R%C3%A9publique_En_Marche!) (sometimes shortened to "En Marche!"), a major French political party

## Economics

- [Emerging markets](/source/Emerging_markets), nations undergoing rapid industrialization

## Language and typography

### Language

- [M](/source/M), a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, in English and other languages
- [Em (Cyrillic)](/source/Em_(Cyrillic)) (М / м), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
- [Em (digraph)](/source/Em_(digraph)), a digraph in Portuguese
- Em, the third-person singular oblique [Spivak pronoun](/source/Spivak_pronoun)

### Typography

- [em (typography)](/source/Em_(typography)), a unit of measurement
- [em dash](/source/Em_dash), a dash that is one em wide
- [em space](/source/Em_space) or mutton, a space that is one em wide

## Management

- [Emergency management](/source/Emergency_management), a discipline that studies dealing with and avoiding risks
- [Energy management](/source/Energy_management), planning and operation of energy production and energy consumption units
- [Environmental management](/source/Environmental_management), the management of the interaction of human societies with the environment

## Places

- [El Monte, California](/source/El_Monte,_California), a city in the United States
- [El Monte, Chile](/source/El_Monte,_Chile), a city in Chile

## Science

### Biology

- [Extracellular matrix](/source/Extracellular_matrix), the connective tissue supporting cells in multicellular organisms
- [Membrane potential](/source/Membrane_potential) (*E*m), of a cell

### Computing

- , emphasis [HTML element](/source/HTML_element#em)
- [End of medium](/source/End_of_medium), ISO C0 control code ^Y
- [Empirical modelling](/source/Empirical_modelling)
- [em (typography)](/source/Em_(typography)), a unit of measurement in Web design
- [eM Client](/source/EM_Client) E-Mail client
- A [whole brain emulation](/source/Whole_brain_emulation), see also [brain emulation](/source/Brain_emulation), a hypothetical future life extension technology. *Ems* were coined by [Robin Hanson](/source/Robin_Hanson).

### Gardening and Agriculture

- [Effective microorganisms](/source/Effective_microorganism), a series of commercial products advertised to improve soil and plant growth

### Medicine

- [Emergency medicine](/source/Emergency_medicine), a medical specialty dealing with acute illnesses and injuries that require immediate attention
- [Erythema multiforme](/source/Erythema_multiforme), a skin condition that usually follows an antecedent infection or drug exposure
- [Erythromelalgia](/source/Erythromelalgia), a disorder that typically affects the skin of the feet and/or hands, causing redness, heat and pain
- [Extensive metabolizer](/source/Extensive_metabolizer), a term used in pharmacogenomics to refer to individuals with normal metabolic activity

### Physics

- [Exametre](/source/Exametre) or exameter (Em), an SI unit of length equal to 1018 metres
- [Electromagnetic spectrum](/source/Electromagnetic_spectrum), the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation
- [Electromigration](/source/Electromigration), the transport of conducting solid material caused by electric current through it
- [Electromagnetism](/source/Electromagnetism), one of the fundamental physical forces
- [Electromechanics](/source/Electromechanics), combines electrical engineering and mechanical engineering

### Other uses in science and technology

- [Nikon EM](/source/Nikon_EM), an SLR camera made by the Nikon Corporation in the late 1970s
- [Early Minoan](/source/Early_Minoan), an archaeological period
- [Electron microscope](/source/Electron_microscope), a type of microscope that uses electrons to "illuminate" a specimen and create an enlarged image
- [Electron multiplier](/source/Electron_multiplier), a vacuum-tube structure that multiplies incident charges by means of secondary emission
- [Electronic monitoring](/source/Electronic_monitoring), a form of surveillance used in criminal justice
- [Atlantic Equatorial mode](/source/Atlantic_Equatorial_mode), a climate pattern of the Atlantic Ocean
- [Expectation–maximization algorithm](/source/Expectation%E2%80%93maximization_algorithm), an algorithm for finding maximum likelihood estimates of parameters in probabilistic models

## People

- [Em Beihold](/source/Em_Beihold) (born 1999), American singer-songwriter
- [Em Bryant](/source/Em_Bryant) (born 1938), American professional basketball player
- [Em Cooper](/source/Em_Cooper), British filmmaker and animator
- [Em Lindbeck](/source/Em_Lindbeck) (1934–2008), American professional baseball player
- [Em Rossi](/source/Em_Rossi) (born 1998), American singer-songwriter
- [Em Rusciano](/source/Em_Rusciano), Australian entertainer
- [Em Prasad Sharma](/source/Em_Prasad_Sharma) (born 1975), Indian politician
- [Em Stone](/source/Em_Stone) (born 1978), American comic book illustrator

## Other uses

- [Electrician's mate](/source/Electrician's_mate), an occupational rating in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard
- [David Em](/source/David_Em) (born 1952), an American computer art pioneer
- [EM gauge](/source/EM_gauge), a scale used in model railways
- [EM TV](/source/EM_TV), a television channel in Papua New Guinea
- *[Etymologicum Magnum](/source/Etymologicum_Magnum)*, in the bibliography of the largest Byzantine lexicon

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