STEM

See also: stem, Stem, stém, and stêm

English

STEM (countable and uncountable, plural STEMs)

(countable) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope.
(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.

acronym of science, technology, engineering, mathematics

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