IBM
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- IPA(key): /ˈˌʌɪbiːˈɛm/
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IBM
- Initialism of International Business Machines.
- 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 7 February 2019:
- The study found that U.S. technology company IBM had by far the largest number of AI-related patents, with 8,920.
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- Initialism of International Brotherhood of Magicians.
- (geology) Initialism of Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc.
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IBM (countable and uncountable, plural IBMs)
- (weaponry) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile.
- Alternative form: ICBM
- 1956 June, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 12, number 6, page 186:
- They see this last possibility in an international agreement to stop further atomic and thermonuclear bomb tests and halt the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles (IBMs).
- 1987, Kenneth David Nichols, The Road to Trinity, page 294:
- Today we need a defense against IBM attack. When as chief of R&D I urged Army Ordnance to develop an antimissile missile, I heard repeatedly that you can't hit a bullet with a bullet, so it is impossible to develop such a missile.
- 1990, William Elliott Butler, Perestroika and International Law, page 155:
- Thus, they limit to a strictly defined number the quantity of armed IBMs in the USSR and the United States, as well as ballistic missiles of submarines.
- (pathology) Initialism of inclusion body myositis.
- (figuratively) A company that dominates its field.
- 1968, George Washington University, Computers-in-Law Institute, National Law Center, The Law of Software: 1968 Proceedings:
- Univac was the IBM of the computer industry's incipiency; in 1952 Univac had virtually 100% of the market.
- 1982, Tracy Kidder, The Soul Of A New Machine, →ISBN, page 238:
- First, to Sperry Univac, the descendent[sic] of the first real computer company, which might have become the IBM of the industry had it not blown its early lead;
- 1990, Alfred Balk, The Myth of American Eclipse: The New Global Age, →ISBN, page 81:
- The US lead was mainly due to one firm, the IBM of its small, specialized field: Cray Research Inc.
- 1968, George Washington University, Computers-in-Law Institute, National Law Center, The Law of Software: 1968 Proceedings:
Further reading
- “IBM”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “IBM”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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