LM

See also: lm

Translingual

Alternative forms

• (roman numeral): lm, cml, CML

Number

LM

1. (informal) A Roman numeral representing nine hundred and fifty (950).

Coordinate terms

• Previous: LLM (eight hundred, 600)
• Previous: LLMIL (nine 7hundred and forty-nine, 949)
• Next: LMI (nine hundred and fifty-one, 951)
• Next: M (thousand, 1000)

Proper noun

LM

1. (motor racing) Initialism of Le Mans.

Derived terms

• LMP, LMP1, LMP2
• GTLM, GTLM1, GTLM2, GTLM3
• LM1, LM2, LM3

English

Noun

LM (plural LMs)

1. (US, space flight) Initialism of lunar module.

   Synonym: LEM

2. (graphical user interface) Abbreviation of layout manager.
3. (microscopy) Abbreviation of light microscope/light microscopy.

   Coordinate terms: SEM, TEM

4. (astronautics) Abbreviation of liquid methane.
5. (machine learning) Initialism of language model.

   Hyponym: LLM

   • 2021 March 3, Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜”, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Virtual Event Canada: ACM, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 610–623:

     However, from the perspective of work on language technology, it is far from clear that all of the effort being put into using large LMs to ‘beat’ tasks designed to test natural language understanding, and all of the effort to create new such tasks, once the existing ones have been bulldozed by the LMs, brings us any closer to long-term goals of general language understanding systems.

Coordinate terms

(rocketry):

• RP-1 (rocket propellant 1)
• LOx / LOX (liquid oxygen)
• LH / LH2 (liquid hydrogen)
• LNG (liquified natural gas)

Derived terms

• (lunar module): LM lifeboat

Anagrams

• ML

Chinese

Verb

LM

1. Alternative form of lm