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cem

cem noun: cemetery.

Noun (1)

cem (plural cems)

  1. (Australia, UK, colloquial) cemetery
    • I'm planning a trip to the cem next week to gather some genealogical information.

Noun (2) capitalized: CEM

CEM (plural CEMs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cation exchange membrane.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Cascade-exciton model.
    • The proposed cascade-exciton model (CEM) combines features of cascade and exciton models for nuclear reactions.1983, K.K. Gudima, S.G. Mashnik, V.D. Toneev, “Cascade-exciton model of nuclear reactions”, in Nuclear Physics A, volume 401, number 2, pages 329-361
    • CEM shows good agreement with both theoretical and experimental results.2015, A ABDEL-HAFIEZ, SHAKER EL-SHATER, M F ZAKI, “Simulated nucleon–nucleon and nucleon–nucleus reactions in the frame of the cascade exciton model at high and intermediate energies”, in Pramana...

Forms of cem

pluralcems
pluralCEMs

Origin of cem

Shortening.

Words that rhyme with cem

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Questions about cem

What does cem mean?
Cem means cemetery.
What part of speech is cem?
Cem is a noun.
What is the plural of cem?
The plural of cem is cems.

Words near cem in the dictionary

  1. celure
  2. celures
  3. Cely
  4. celyphid
  5. celyphids
  6. cem
  7. cem.
  8. cemadotin
  9. Cemaes
  10. CEMB
  11. cembali

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