STEM

See also: stem, Stem, stém, and stêm

English

Noun

STEM (countable and uncountable, plural STEMs)

1. (countable) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope.
2. (uncountable) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
   • 2012 March 22nd, David Blockley, Engineering: A Very Short Introduction (309), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, chapter 1: “From idea to reality”, page 14:

     Although these six classifications of the scope and responsibility and specific engineering expertise are interesting and useful, they come from within engineering itself and they don’t help us to disentangle STEM.

   • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 10:

     Table 7 shows that in general, the STEM subjects share more phrases with each other, while the opposite is true for the humanities subjects.

Derived terms

• STEMinism
• STEMinist
• STEMlord

Related terms

• STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics)
• STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine)

Translations

acronym of science, technology, engineering, mathematics

• Armenian: ԳՏՃՄ (GTČM)
• Finnish: luma (fi)
• French: STIM (fr) f pl
• German: MINT
• Indonesian: STEM
• Spanish: CTIM

References

• Scanning transmission electron microscopy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EMTs, Mets, Smet, TEMs, mets

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɛm/

Noun

STEM (first-person possessive STEMku, second-person possessive STEMmu, third-person possessive STEMnya)

1. Acronym of sains, teknologi, enjiniring, dan matematika.