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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation electronic countermeasures (to jam or confuse transmissions)
  • abbreviation European Common Market
  • abbreviation extracellular matrix

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  • initialism linguistics Initialism of Exceptional case-marking.
  • initialism economics Initialism of European Common Market.
  • initialism Engine control module

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  • noun electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum

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  • I think the term ECM still has a place in the acronym pantheon, but that place is an increasingly limited one.

    Intelligent Enterprise 2010

  • I think the term ECM still has a place in the acronym pantheon, but that place is an increasingly limited one.

    Intelligent Enterprise 2010

  • ECM is electronic countermeasures, while EVA is Extra-vehicular activity (basically space suit).

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » JM’s Review Forum 2009

  • Another three-letter word, ECM, as is the estimable label ECM Records, run by producer Manfred Eicher, might lend itself to a more precise subset of electronic-oriented recordings — music that is compositionally open-ended, and whose deeply sedative aspirations are not technologically dependent.

    Disquiet » Sonic Postcard from Switzerland 2002

  • He told me that the record label ECM was doing a live recording - which was eventually released on the album

    News 2011

  • He told me that the record label ECM was doing a live recording - which was eventually released on the album

    News 2011

  • Each volume of this unique jazz improvisation method includes: State of the art recordings (multi-track digital), recorded in the excellent Bauer Studios, where many of the productions for the record label ECM have been done, and in the Skyline Studios in New York City.

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  • Since at least the early 1970s, when he began recording for the German label ECM, he has practiced a pristine, self-sufficient style, endlessly awake to his instrument's acoustical properties.

    NYT > Home Page By NATE CHINEN 2010

  • Manfred Eicher launched and faithfully maintains his hyper-romantic label ECM - to have the sound of certain instruments and the relationship between them and space so meticulously reproduced you can actually sense yourself suspended inside time.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk Paul Morley 2010

  • Each volume of this unique jazz improvisation method includes: State of the art recordings (multi-track digital), recorded in the excellent Bauer Studios, where many of the productions for the record label ECM have been done, and in the Skyline Studios in New York City.

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