dm

Other forms of dm

plural

dms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dm

What does dm mean?

dm means "diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dm?

dm has 1 syllable: dm.

What is another word for dm?

Close synonyms include diabetes mellitus, decimeter, decimetre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dm a common word?

dm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.