P . M . is the abbreviation for post meridiem, " after noon ."
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The discussion above about ante and post meridiem got me thinking about which syllable of " meridiem " takes the stress.
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The phrase " signalese developed by the British Army signallers in the First World War to mean " post meridiem ", or p . m.
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In common spoken language, times are given in 12-hour clock, and those between 1 and 11 are assumed to be " post meridiem ", past noon, if not otherwise noted.
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The same Latin stem gives rise to the terms a . m . ( ante meridiem ) and p . m . ( post meridiem ) used to disambiguate hours of the day when utilizing the 12-hour clock.
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The term should not be confused with " after noon " ( two separate words ), which is a translation of the Latin " post meridiem " ( p . m . ), meaning a time between 12 : 00 midday and 12 : 00 midnight.
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A possible explanation for the shift from having the first hour being the one after dawn, to having the hour after noon being designated as 1 pm ( post meridiem ), is that these clocks would likely regularly be reset at local high noon each day.
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between noon and midnight; "let''s meet at 8 P.M." पर्याय: P.M., P.M.,
between noon and midnight; "let''s meet at 8 P.M." पर्याय: P.M., P.M.,
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