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TMI en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of trimethylindium.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, informal, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of too much information.
    • Hoover’s books go down like a T.M.I. Facebook confessional, rubbernecking you in from the first sentence. Certain patterns quickly emerge. 2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2023:
    • TMI, as the youthful txters say? Too Much Information? 2008 November 12, Alex Beam, “Thank you for oversharing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2021:
    • Perhaps. But more likely, Daniels’s propensity for offering TMI — bolstered by easygoing quips that made the jury laugh — kept her basic story and her credibility intact. 2024 May 7, Nicholas Kristof, “Conversations and insights about the moment.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • He began to talk about his last trip to the underwear store. I told him, TMI!
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of transmarginal inhibition.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, qualifier:video; color correction; video; color correction, uncountable) Initialism of Temperature, Magenta/Green levels, and Intensity.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of trans-Mars injection.

Forms

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TMIs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

TLI · LTO · GTO · GEO · MTO · GSO

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

TMI en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Three Mile Island.