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ibm English <dab!> Pronunciation en /ˌʌɪbiːˈɛm/ en en-ca-IBM.ogg CA Proper noun en w:International Business Machines. en Penny Singer Bob Detmer, a Visionary Video Maker w:The New York Times 1994-10-30 https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/30/nyregion/bob-detmer-a-visionary-video-maker.html 0362-4331 "I was one of them," recalled Mr. Detmer, who is now 47. "When I graduated from high school in 1966, I got my first job working on the assembly line at the I.B.M. plant, where I earned $2 an hour putting together mainframe computers. https://web.archive.org/web/20220427150904/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/30/nyregion/bob-detmer-a-visionary-video-maker.html en UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/un-study-china-us-japan-lead-world-ai-development/4769094.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190207184548/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/un-study-china-us-japan-lead-world-ai-development/4769094.html 7 February 2019 w:Voice of America 3 February 2019 The study found that U.S. technology company IBM had by far the largest number of AI-related patents, with 8,920. en w:International Brotherhood of Magicians. en geology en Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc. Derived terms en IBMer en IBMese en IBM-compatible en IBM PC en IBM Pollyanna Principle Translations International Business Machines Arabic: ar آي بي إم m ʔay bī ʔem, ar أي‌بي‌إم m ʔay bī ʔem French: fr IBM, fr SIMC rare Italian: it IBM, it SIMC rare Japanese: ja アイ・ビー・エム Ai-bī-emu Polish: pl IBM m-in n Russian: ru Ай-Би-Э́м f Turkish: tr IBM, tr UİM rare Noun ~ en Q177471 en weapons en intercontinental ballistic missile<id:Q177471>. en ICBM<id:Q177471> en 1956 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 12 6 June 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). en Nuclear warfare en 1987 Kenneth David Nichols The Road to Trinity 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. en 1990 William Elliott Butler Perestroika and International Law 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. en disease en w:inclusion body myositis. en 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. en 1982 Tracy Kidder The Soul Of A New Machine 238 0380599317 First, to Sperry Univac, the descendent of the first real computer company, which might have become the IBM of the industry had it not blown its early lead; en 1990 Alfred Balk The Myth of American Eclipse: The New Global Age 81 0887383696 The US lead was mainly due to one firm, the IBM of its small, specialized field: Cray Research Inc. Further reading Anagrams en bim BMI Bim MIB MiB Mib bim mib en IBM