Editing PM

{{Wiktionary|PM|Pm|pm|p.m.}}
'''PM''' or '''pm''' (also written P.M. or p.m.) is an abbreviation for Latin ''post meridiem'', meaning "after midday" in the [[12-hour clock]].

'''PM''' or '''Pm''' or '''pm''' may also refer to:
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==Arts and entertainment==
*[[Palm mute#Notation|Palm mute]], a guitar playing technique
*[[PM (radio program)|''PM'' (radio program)]], Australia
*[[PM (BBC Radio 4)|''PM'' (BBC Radio 4)]], UK
*''[[PM Magazine]]'', an American TV news program (1976–1991). 
*[[PM (newspaper)|''PM'' (newspaper)]], US (1940–1948)
*[[PM Press]], an American publishing company
*''[[Pocket Mortys]]'', a role-playing video game
*[[Project Mayhem]], a fictional conspiracy in the book and film ''Fight Club''
* PM, a band with drummer [[Carl Palmer]].

==Business and economics==
===Businesses===
*[[P.M. Place Stores]], a former US chain of discount stores
*[[Pere Marquette Railway]], North America 1900–1947, reporting mark
*[[Philip Morris International]], a tobacco company

===Terminology===
*[[Performance management]] of an organisation
*[[Portfolio manager]]
*[[Preventive maintenance]]
*[[Project manager]]
*[[Product manager]]
*[[Program manager]]
*[[Product marketing|Product marketer]]

==Government==
*[[Prime minister]]
*[[Military Police (Brazil)|Polícia Militar]], Brazilian military police

*U.S. Department of State [[Bureau of Political-Military Affairs]]

==People==
*[[Hans Widmer|P.M. (author)]] or p.m., pseudonym of Hans Widmer (born 1947), Swiss author
*[[Pat Maloney Sr.]] (1924–2005), American trial lawyer

==Science, technology, and mathematics==
===Biology and medicine===
*[[Plasma membrane]], also known as cell membrane
*[[Polymyositis]], a disease
*[[Poor metabolizer]], a term used in pharmacogenomics to refer to individuals with little to no functional metabolic activity
*[[Post-mortem]]
*[[Precision medicine]]
*[[Pyridoxamine]], the amine form of vitamin B<sub>6</sub>

===Chemistry and materials science===
*Parametric Method 3 ([[PM3 (chemistry)]]), in computational chemistry
*[[Particulate matter]], microscopic particles suspended in the air
**[[PM10]], particulates smaller than 10&nbsp;μm
*[[Powder metallurgy]], a method of fabricating metals
*[[Promethium]], symbol Pm, a chemical element

===Computing===
*[[Particle mesh]], an algorithm for determining forces
*[[Perl module]], file extension .pm
*[[Private message]], a private communication channel on some platforms

===Units of measurement===
*[[Petametre]] (Pm), a length unit (10<sup>15</sup>&nbsp;m)
*[[Picometre]] (pm), a length unit (10<sup>−12</sup>&nbsp;m)
*Picomolar (pM), a unit of [[Molar concentration#Units|molar concentration]]

===Vehicles===
*Martin PM, a version of the [[Naval Aircraft Factory PN]] flying boat
*[[Toyota PM]], a concept car
*[[PKP class Pm36|Pm36]], a Polish steam locomotive

===Weapons===
====Guns and mortars====
*[[Makarov PM]] (Pistolet Makarova), a Soviet and Russian pistol
*[[Minebea PM-9]], a Japanese submachine gun
*[[PM-38]], a Soviet light mortar
*[[PM-63 RAK]], Polish submachine gun
*[[PM-84 Glauberyt]], Polish submachine gun

*[[PM md 96]], a Romanian submachine gun

*Precision Marksman (PM), a sniper rifle and precursor to the [[accuracy international arctic warfare]] rifle

====Mines====
*[[PM-43 and PM-68 mine]], Finland
*[[PM-60 mine]], East Germany
*[[PM-79 mine]], Bulgaria

===Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics===
*[[Army Nuclear Power Program|PM-1, PM-2A, PM-3A]], US Army portable nuclear reactors
*[[Phase modulation]], in signal processing
*[[Polarization-maintaining optical fiber]] or PM fiber
*''[[Principia Mathematica]]'', by Whitehead and Russell
*The [[plus–minus sign|plus or minus]] sign, a symbol used in mathematics

==Other uses==
*[[Passage Meditation]], a form of meditation developed by Eknath Easwaran
*[[Pickleball in Canada#Governing body|Pickleball Manitoba]], Canadian provincial pickleball association
*[[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]] (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
**[[.pm]], top-level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Pierre and Miquelon

==See also==
*{{lookfrom|Pm}}
*{{lookfrom|PM}}
*{{intitle|pm}}

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