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 Dictionary entry overview: What does MI mean? 

• MI (noun)
  The noun MI has 8 senses:

1. destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle

2. a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile

3. a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

4. a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

5. a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

6. the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory

7. the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas

8. the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization

  Familiarity information: MI used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

MI; myocardial infarct; myocardial infarction

Hypernyms ("MI" is a kind of...):

infarct; infarction (localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply)

Holonyms ("MI" is a part of...):

heart attack (a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

Admiralty mile; geographical mile; mi; mile; naut mi; nautical mile

Hypernyms ("mi" is a kind of...):

nautical linear unit (a linear unit of distance used in navigation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

air mile; international nautical mile; mi; mile; naut mi; nautical mile

Hypernyms ("mi" is a kind of...):

nautical linear unit (a linear unit of distance used in navigation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

international mile; land mile; mi; mile; stat mi; statute mile

Hypernyms ("mi" is a kind of...):

linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)

Meronyms (parts of "mi"):

furlong (a unit of length equal to 220 yards)

880 yards; half mile (a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile)

440 yards; quarter mile (a unit of length equal to a quarter of 1 mile)

Holonyms ("mi" is a part of...):

league (an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles))

Sense 5

Meaning:

A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Great Lakes State; MI; Mich.; Michigan; Wolverine State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "MI"):

capital of Michigan; Lansing (capital of the state of Michigan; located in southern Michigan on the Grand River)

Upper Peninsula (the peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan)

Lower Peninsula (the part of Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron)

Lake Saint Clair; Lake St. Clair (a lake between Ontario and Michigan; connected with Lake Huron and Lake Erie)

Grand River (a river in southern Michigan that flows northwest to empty into Lake Michigan)

Detroit River (a short river flowing from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie along the border between the United States and Canada; one the busiest inland waterways in the world)

Traverse City (a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Michigan)

Monroe (a town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie)

Marquette (a town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan)

Jackson (a town in south central Michigan)

Grand Rapids (a city in west central Michigan; noted for manufacturing furniture)

Mackinac Bridge (a suspension bridge across the channel between the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan)

Isle Royal National Park (a national park on an island in Michigan; includes prehistoric iron mines)

Alpena (a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron)

Ann Arbor (a city in southern Michigan near Detroit; site of the University of Michigan)

Detroit; Motor City; Motown (the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor)

Flint (a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing)

Houghton (a town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula)

Holonyms ("MI" is a part of...):

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

MI; Military Intelligence Section 5; Security Service

Hypernyms ("MI" is a kind of...):

international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

MI; Military Intelligence Section 6; Secret Intelligence Service

Hypernyms ("MI" is a kind of...):

international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mi" is a kind of...):

solfa syllable (one of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization)

 Context examples 

AMD is a complex disease influenced by yet-to-be-understood mi of genetic and behavioral factors.

(New study about genes linked to age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

Also called: Myocardial Infarction, MI, Myocardial infarction

(Heart Attack, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

MPF activation mediates the transition from the PI arrest to MI.

(Oocyte Meiosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Includes patients with unstable angina or Non-STEMI who have high risk features for short-term risk of death or nonfatal MI.

(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for High Risk Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction or Unstable Angina, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Upon oral administration, the p53-HDM2 protein-protein interaction inhibitor MI-773 binds to HDM2, preventing the binding of the HDM2 protein to the transcriptional activation domain of the tumor suppressor protein p53.

(p53-HDM2 Interaction Inhibitor MI-773, NCI Thesaurus)

Documented history of previous myocardial infarction (MI), typically with objective evidence via positive biomarkers of myocardial necrosis.

(Old Myocardial Infarction, NCI Thesaurus)

The concept of MI and being able to recognize it is important for helping define molecular alterations important for progression from HGPIN to invasive carcinoma.

(Microinvasive Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Nearly 1.5 million people in US sustain an MI each year, and this event proves fatal in approximately one third of patients.

(Acute Myocardial Infarction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Upon intracoronary infusion after a myocardial infarction (MI), autologous bone marrow-derived CD34/CXCR4-positive stem cells may preserve cardiac muscle cells and prevent apoptosis; thus improving myocardial perfusion.

(Autologous Bone Marrow-derived CD34/CXCR4-positive Stem Cells AMR-001, NCI Thesaurus)

He held up two fingers as he passed, with a _Benedic, fili mi!_ whereat Alleyne doffed hat and bent knee, looking with much reverence at one who had devoted his life to the overthrow of the infidel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)