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STM

STM is the initialism of scanning tunneling microscope.

STM is the initialism of specific transmission module.

STM is the initialism of scientific.

STM is the initialism of soft tissue mobilization.

STM is the initialism of short-term memory.

STM is the initialism of software transactional memory.

Meaning of scanning tunneling microscope

Noun

scanning tunneling microscope (plural scanning tunneling microscopes)

  1. A device used to form an image of the surface of a conductor or semiconductor with atomic resolution.

Meaning of scientific

Adjective

scientific (comparative more scientific, superlative most scientific)

  1. Related or connected to science
    • There is also in these matters of Science (though many scientific men would doubtless deny this) a great deal of "Fashion".1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 9
  2. Derived from or consistent with the scientific method.
  3. In accord with the procedures, methods, conduct and accepted conventions of modern science.
    • “The circumstances in Iran were so mysterious and so bizarre that the Iranian government realized that this cannot happen with mechanical means or cyberattacks. They cannot happen with anything known to the human mind from a scientific point of view,” he explained.2025 July 17, Aaron Reich, quoting Uri Geller, “Uri Geller: Israel used secret group of military psychics, AI to attack Iran”, in The Jerusalem Post, Jpost Inc., archived from the original on 17 Jul...
    Synonyms:
    methodical

Forms of STM

pluralSTMs

Questions about STM

What is STM the initialism of?
STM is the initialism of scanning tunneling microscope.

Words near STM in the dictionary

  1. STLC
  2. STLD
  3. sTLDs
  4. STLV
  5. STLVs
  6. STM
  7. StMBH
  8. StMBHs
  9. stmfr
  10. stmfrs
  11. STML

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Adapted from Wiktionary: STM (page history and authors); scanning tunneling microscope (page history and authors); scientific (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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