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Definition: Atm |
AtmNoun1. A unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade. 2. A means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds; suitable for transmission of images or voice or video as well as data; "ATM is used for both LAN and WAN". 3. An unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ATM 1. |
Finance | See automated teller machine. (references) |
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ATM is an abbreviation with the following meanings:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ATM."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
atm | Danish | Normal atmosfære | Physics |
ATM | Dutch | Asynchronous Transfer Mode | Computing |
ATM | English | Antitank mine | N/A |
ATM | Finnish | Asynkroninen pakettivälitys | Computing |
ATM | German | Asynchroner Transfermodus | Computing |
ATM | Greek | αυτόματη ταμειακή μηχανή | Computing, Finance |
atm | Italian | Atmosfera | Physics |
ATM | Spanish | Agente de transferencia de mensajes | Computing |
ATM | Swedish | Asynkront överföringsmod | Computing |
| ATC | English | ATM transfer capability | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: AtmSynonyms: asynchronous transfer mode (n), atmosphere (n), automated teller (n), automated teller machine (n), automatic teller (n), automatic teller machine (n), cash dispenser (n), cash machine (n), standard atmosphere (n), standard pressure (n). (additional references) |
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Clever | How to act insane: When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won! I Won! 3rd time this week! (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The most modern network use the ATM technology. (references) | |
The six biggest end-users of ATM are ICBC, CCB, ABC, BOC, China Postal Deposit Office, and the Bank of Communication. (references) | ||
China imported its first ATM in 1988. At the end of 1999, there were a total of 26,424 ATMs in the major cities of China. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bangladesh | Several local and foreign banks have installed ATM machines in various parts of Dhaka city. (references) |
Brazil | Kidnappers usually carry guns and drive the victim around to make withdrawals from ATM cash machines. (references) | |
Ireland | Public ATM switches are being installed and, together with the extensive trunk fiber network, a national broadband network rolled out. (references) | |
Political Economy | SINGAPORE | However, QFBs remain limited to 15 locations (branches or ATMs) and are unable to access the local ATM network. (references) |
Trade | Azerbaijan | The IBA operates about 25 ATM machines in the Baku area. (references) |
Armenia | Only HSBC, Agrobank, and ArExim Bank offer ATM machines, and no widespread infrastructure exists in the country capable of accepting payments by credit card. (references) | |
Travel | Argentina | So, be sure to bring an ATM card. (references) |
Lebanon | Bank ATM machines are widespread. (references) | |
Slovak Rep | The Slovak PTT provides ATM and ISDN services. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | For me, the ATM is the model of modern convenience. |
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| "Atm" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 51.85% of the time. "Atm" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 51.85% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (common) | 25.93% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.81% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "atm": atm Forum ♦ atm machine ♦ ATM statistical transfer mode ♦ signaling ATM adaptation layer ♦ signalling ATM adaptation layer ♦ universal test and operations interface for ATM ♦ wideband ATM. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaans | otm-masjien (ATM machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Breton | pilhedaouer (ATM machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 非同步傳輸模式 (asynchronous transfer mode), 自动付"机, 異步傳輸模式 (asynchronous transfer mode). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bankomat (cash dispenser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | atm-maskine (ATM machine), Utopia (universal test and operations interface for ATM, Utopia), universal test and operations interface for ATM (universal test and operations interface for ATM, Utopia), statistisk overførselsmodus (ATM statistical transfer mode, statistical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Utopia (Utopia), universal test and operations interface for ATM (universal test and operations interface for ATM, Utopia), statistische transfermodus (ATM statistical transfer mode, statistical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | mon-a"tomato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Utopia-liitäntä (universal test and operations interface for ATM, Utopia), tilastollinen asynkroninen siirtomuoto (ATM statistical transfer mode, statistical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Flemish | geldautomaat (ATM machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | statistique (ATM statistical transfer mode), mode de transfert statistique (ATM statistical transfer mode), mode de transfert asynchrone statistique (ATM statistical transfer mode), interface UTOPIA (universal test and operations interface for ATM), Groupe haut niveau sur l'ATM (High Level Group on ATM). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French Canadian | atm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geldautomat (automatic teller, cash dispenser, change machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Utopia (universal test and operations interface for ATM, Utopia), καθολική διεπαφή δοκιμής και λειτουργιών για ATM (universal test and operations interface for ATM, Utopia), στατιστικός τρόπος μεταφοράς (ATM statistical transfer mode, statistical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | modo di trasferimento statistico (ATM statistical transfer mode, statistical), bancomat (ATM machine, cash dispenser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 自動金銭出入機 (automatic teller machine), 現金自動 け払い機 (automatic teller machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | '"き"じどうあずけばらいき (automatic teller machine), じどうき"せ"しゅつにゅうき (automatic teller machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luxembourgish | distributeur (ATM machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | minibankene (the ATM machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atmay atm (asynchronous transfer mode). (various references) атмосфера (ambience, atm atmosphere, atmosphere, atmospheres, atomosphere, aura, climate). (various references) atm (message transfer agent). (various references) atm (ATM machine). (various references) bankomat (automatic cash dispensing machine, cash dispenser). (various references) atm. (various references) bankamatik (ATM machine, cash dispenser, cashomat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "atm": atma, atman, atmans, atmas, atmometer, atmometers, atmosphere, atmosphered, atmospheres, atmospheric, atmospherically, atmospherics. (additional references) | |
Words containing "atm": batman, batmen, boatman, boatmen, catmint, catmints, entreatment, entreatments, flatmate, flatmates, hatmaker, hatmakers, mahatma, mahatmas, maltreatment, maltreatments, meatman, meatmen, mistreatment, mistreatments, nontreatment, nontreatments, oatmeal, oatmeals, overtreatment, overtreatments, posttreatment, pretreatment, pretreatments, seatmate, seatmates, subatmospheric, treatment, treatments. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mat, tam. | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-t" | |
-1 letter: am, at, ma, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-t" | |
+1 letter: atma, atom, malt, mart, mast, mate, math, mats, matt, maut, meat, meta, moat, tame, tamp, tams, team, tram. | |
+2 letters: admit, ambit, ament, amity, amort, armet, atman, atmas, atoms, atomy, datum, etyma, gamut, magot, maist, malts, malty, manat, manta, marts, masts, match, mated, mater, mates, matey, maths, matin, matte, matts, matza, matzo, mauts, mayst, meant, meats, meaty, menta, metal, moats, ramet, satem, smalt, smart, stamp, steam, stoma, tamal, tamed, tamer, tames, tamis, tammy, tamps, teams, tharm, toman, tramp, trams, tryma. | |
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