Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contraction of fathom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun acron. A method of transmitting radio signals by modulating the frequency of the carrier wave; -- opposed to AM (amplitude modulation), in which the signal modulates the amplitude, rather than the frequency of the carrier wave.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun metrology The symbol for
femtometer orfemtometre , aunit oflength . The namefermi for this unit is obsolete. - noun abbreviation for Fathom
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave
- noun a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
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Examples
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QuickTime trailers are lined up on a virtual shelf, while Last. fm is presented as a simple widget to type your favourite artists into.
Kantaris Remixes VLC Media Player With New Looks And Features | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Ping. fm is a site that aims to make the dissemination of information easier.
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The latter seems like a move to appease the record labels, but taken together, it looks like Last. fm is trying to develop a post-advertising business model.
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Last. fm is paying royalties to unsigned bands that put music on its site ...
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Last. fm is a great tool for people listening to music on their computers, but what about portable players?
Last.FM Has a First With Streaming Music - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Ping. fm is a utility that lets you update all your social networks at the same time via mobile phone, email or plugin applications.
Social networking and Web 2.0 sites for authors and writers - The Creative Penn | The Creative Penn 2008
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Overall, I think for most people Last. fm is a great site for music – but for me and the way I like to listen to music, I prefer FineTune.
Early 90’s Hip Hop and a review of online radio : #comments 2007
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Last. fm is a social recommender, looking for what other people who like that artist listen to, and Pandora recommends based on musical attributes, the ‘genes’ of an artist catalogued in their Musical Genome Project.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Music recommendation services: Last.fm vs. Pandora 2006
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Last. fm is a social recommender, looking for what other people [...]
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Music recommendation services: Last.fm vs. Pandora 2006
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The best feature about last. fm is that when a user is logged in it keeps track of the songs listened to, formulates recomendations, users with similar tastes, gives you list of upcoming shows in your area, allows you to edit information on artist profiles to add information, and has downloadable sprogglers for either itunes or windows media player or real player that will submit the tracks you listen to off of your computer or ipod and from that and the tracks you listen to on its site will keep a running log of weekly top artists, and overall top artists, tracks, and such.
Last.FM Has a First With Streaming Music - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
oroboros commented on the word fm
Fm. Chemical element symbol for Fermium.
December 16, 2007