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STEM en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
    alt of science
    alt of technology
    • Despite wide efforts to encourage more girls and young women to pursue careers in STEM, a new survey from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation found Gen Z girls significantly lag behind boys in the level of interest expressed in STEM subjects, suggesting more must be done to close the gender gap. 2023 December 5, Athena Jones, “Efforts to close gender interest gap in STEM must be stepped up, Gen Z survey shows”, in CNN:
    • Table 7 shows that in general, the STEM subjects share more phrases with each other, while the opposite is true for the humanities subjects. 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 10:
    • Although these six classifications of the scope and responsibility and specific engineering expertise are interesting and useful, they come from within engineering itself and they don’t help us to disentangle STEM. 2012 March 22nd, David Blockley, Engineering: A Very Short Introduction (309), Oxford University Press, chapter 1: “From idea to reality”, page 14

Forms

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STEMs Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

STEMlord · STEMinism · STEMinist

Relateds

STEMM · STEAM

Translations (8)

hy ԳՏՃՄ (acronym of science, technology, engineering, mathematics) · no MNT (acronym of science, technology, engineering, mathematics) · es CTIM (acronym of science, technology, engineering, mathematics) · fr STIM (acronym of science, technology, engineering, mathematics) · id STEM (acronym of science, technology, engineering, mathematics) · de MINT (acronym of science, technology, engineering, mathematics) · fi luma (acronym of science, technology, engineering, mathematics) · cmn 理工科 (acronym of science, technology, engineering, mathematics)