em

1. (rare, nonstandard) A gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, the objective case of ey or e, equivalent to the singular them and coordinate with him and her.Examples: "If the author uses such notation, it should be up to Em to indicate Eir intentions clearly, but there’s no harm checking first."; "I may become quite intimate with someone, spend hours with em every night, and yet not have the slightest idea what eir voice sounds like, or what eir RL body looks, feels, and smells like."; "E invites em to consider how ey represent emselves^([sic]), and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible."gender-neutralnonstandardobjectiveraresingularthird-person

1. (Scotland, Ireland) a form of hesitant speech, or an expression of uncertaintyExamples: "She was abused by, em... David, I think. That was his name, he's a real em... what's the word, narcissist. You should really stay away from him."Synonyms: um, umm, erm, ;, eh, uhIrelandScotland

1. (medicine) Initialism of emergency medicine.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable

2. (sciences, countable) Abbreviation of electron microscope.abbreviationalt-ofcountable

3. (sciences, uncountable) Abbreviation of electron microscopy.abbreviationalt-ofuncountable

4. (uncountable) Initialism of electromagnetism.abbreviationalt-ofinitialismuncountable

5. (criminal justice) Initialism of electronic monitoring.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable

6. (business) Initialism of emerging market.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable