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MI en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of middle initial.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of military intelligence.
    • 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. 2009, Karen Connelly, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story, Toronto: Random House Canada, →ISBN, page 108:
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of myocardial infarction.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of mitral insufficiency.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of mesioincisal.
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of mathematical induction.
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of mechanical index.
  8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of medical inspection.
  9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of mutual information.
    • MI excludes words that frequently combine with many words (e.g. the), but can overemphasize low frequency collocation. 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:
  10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of middle infielder.
  11. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of major incident.

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Source: en.wiktionary, “MI” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

MI en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of Michigan: a state of the United States.
    alt of Michigan