M2, M-2, M.2 or M02 may refer to:

Entertainment

* ''M²'' (album), a 2001 album by jazz musician Marcus Miller * ''m²'' (artist), an ambient project of Mathis Mootz *

M2 (game developer) is a Japanese video game developer and publisher, best known for handling emulation of re-released games, such as some Sega Ages titles, Virtual Console titles for Nintendo systems, the 3D Classics series for the Nintendo 3DS and their Sho ...

, Japanese game developer *

M2 (TV channel) M2 (em kettő) is a Hungary, Hungarian television channel owned and operated by Duna Média since 2015. It is also transmitted in High-definition television, high definition. On 22 December 2012, M2's daytime hours became dedicated to children ...

, a Hungarian TV channel * M2 (Ukraine), a Ukrainian music television channel * M2, branding used by some programming on South Korean music television channel

Mnet (TV channel) Music Network (acronym of the Mnet) is a South Korean pay television music channel owned by CJ ENM Entertainment Division. The CJ E&M Center Studio located in Sangam-dong, Mapo District, Seoul is the headquarters, broadcast and recording c ...

* M2, the former name for

MTV2 MTV2 (formerly M2) is an American pay television Cable television, channel owned by the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global, through PMN’s MTV Entertainment Group Subdivision. The channel launched initially as an all-music ...

, an American TV channel

Computing

M.2 M.2 (pronounced "M-dot-2"), formerly known as the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF), is a specification for internally mounted computer expansion cards and connectors. It was developed to replace the older Mini SATA (mSATA) and Mini PCIe ( m ...

, a specification for internally mounted expansion cards *

Apple M2 Apple M2 is a series of ARM architecture family, ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc., launched 2022 to 2023. It is part of the Apple silicon series, as a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) for ...

, a central processing unit in the Apple M series * Socket M2, a CPU socket *

Memory Stick Micro The Memory Stick is a removable flash memory card format, originally launched by Sony in late 1998. In addition to the original Memory Stick, this family includes the Memory Stick PRO, a revision that allows greater maximum storage capacity and ...

, a removable flash memory card format * Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2, an early Russian digital computer (1957) *

Modula-2 Modula-2 is a structured, procedural programming language developed between 1977 and 1985/8 by Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zurich. It was created as the language for the operating system and application software of the Lilith personal workstation. It w ...

, a computer programming language *

Macaulay2 Macaulay2 is a free computer algebra system created by Daniel Grayson (from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) and Michael Stillman (from Cornell University) for computation in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Overview ...

, a free computer algebra system

Military

Vehicles

M2 (missile) The M2 MSBS was the second French submarine-launched ballistic missile. In French, MSBS is the abbreviation for ''Mer-Sol Balistique Stratégique'', or Sea-Ground Strategic Ballistic Missile. It has two stages. It was deployed on the ''Redoutabl ...

, a French submarine-launched ballistic missile *

M2 Bradley The M2 Bradley, or Bradley IFV, is an American infantry fighting vehicle that is a member of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle family. It is manufactured by BAE Systems Land & Armaments (formerly United Defense) and entered service in 1981, with fi ...

, an armored fighting vehicle *

M2 half-track car The M2 half-track car was an armored half-track produced by the United States during World War II. Its design drew upon half-tracks imported from France in the 1930s, employing standard components supplied by U.S. truck manufacturers to speed p ...

M2 light tank The M2 light tank, officially Light Tank, M2, was an American light tank of the interwar period which saw limited service during World War II. The most common model, the M2A4, was equipped with one M5 gun and five .30 cal M1919 Browning mac ...

* M2 medium tank * (M2), a WWI British Royal Navy monitor * , a 1919 submarine * , a Swedish Navy mine sweeper * , a Swedish Royal Navy mine layer * Miles M.2 Hawk, a 1930s British two-seat light monoplane *

M2 high-speed tractor The M2 high-speed tractor (or colloquially M2 Cletrac) was an aircraft tug used by the United States Army Air Forces from 1942. Construction The M2 is a fully tracked vehicle designed to tow aircraft on primitive airfields. It was equipped wit ...

, a military aircraft tug

Weapons

M2 Ball The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (weaponry), cartridge (pronounced "thirty-Names for the number 0 in English, aught-six" ), 7.62×63mm in metric notation, and called the .30 Gov't '06 by Winchester, was introduced to the United States Army in ...

, ammunition *

M2 Browning The M2 machine gun or Browning .50-caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun, which was chambered ...

, a heavy machine gun in use since the 1920s *

M2 carbine The M1 carbine (formally the United States carbine, caliber .30, M1) is a lightweight semi-automatic carbine chambered in the .30 carbine (7.62×33mm) cartridge that was issued to the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War, and th ...

, a select-fire carbine *

M2 flamethrower The M2 flamethrower was an American, man-portable, backpack flamethrower that was used in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The M2 was the successor to the M1 and M1A1 flamethrowers. Although its burn time was around 7 seconds ...

M2 Hyde The Hyde-Inland M2 was a United States submachine gun design submitted for trials at Aberdeen Proving Ground in February 1941. Work was undertaken by General Motors Inland Manufacturing Division to develop workable prototypes of George Hyde's des ...

, submachine gun *

M2 mine The M2 is a United States bounding anti-personnel mine used during World War II. A number of variants of the mine were produced and although the mine is no longer in US service, it can be found in Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Korea, Laos, Oman, Rwanda, T ...

, a World War II land mine *

M2 mortar The M2 mortar is a 60 millimeter smoothbore, muzzle-loading, high-angle-of-fire weapon used by U.S. forces in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War for light infantry support. History and description During the late 1920s, the ...

, a 60 mm infantry mortar *

M2 4.2-inch mortar The M2 4.2-inch mortar was a U.S. rifled 4.2-inch (107 mm) mortar (weapon), mortar used during the Second World War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. It entered service in 1943. It was nicknamed the "Goon Gun" (from its large bullet-s ...

, a 107mm infantry mortar *

M2 tripod The M2 Tripod is a U.S. machine gun tripod originally used with the Browning M1919 infantry machine gun. Since then, it has seen several redesigns, but remained largely the same. In this fashion, the M2 tripod has seen combat service in every co ...

, a weapon mount * Mauser M2, semi-automatic handgun made by

Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH is a German manufacturer of hunting rifles in the Lüke & Ortmeier group. History In 1999, the civilian gun segment of the Mauser firearms company was separated from the military segment and was purchased by the German in ...

* M2 Aiming Circle, an optical survey device to measure deflection angles and elevation off a predefined

azimuth An azimuth (; from ) is the horizontal angle from a cardinal direction, most commonly north, in a local or observer-centric spherical coordinate system. Mathematically, the relative position vector from an observer ( origin) to a point ...

* M2 compass (

Brunton compass A Brunton compass, properly known as the Brunton Pocket Transit, is a precision compass made by Brunton, Inc. of Riverton, Wyoming. The instrument was patented in 1894 by Canadian-born geologist David W. Brunton. Unlike most modern compasses, ...

), used for mortars and field artillery; uses 6400 mils as opposed to 360 degrees * M2 howitzer, the WW2 designation for the

M101 howitzer The M101A1 (previously designated Howitzer M2A2 on Carriage M2A2) howitzer is an artillery piece developed and used by the United States. It was the standard U.S. light field howitzer in World War II and saw action in both the European and Pa ...

* M2/M4

Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition or (M2/M3/M4 SLAM) is a small United States multi-purpose landmine produced by ATK Precision Fuze Company in Janesville, Wisconsin from 1992 to 2002. It has a passive infrared sensor, and a magnetic influen ...

(SLAM), a land mine * Anti-Aircraft Target Rocket M2, a World War II training rocket

Transport

Bus routes

M2 (New York City bus) The M1, M2, M3, and M4 are four local bus routes that operate along the one-way pair of Madison and Fifth Avenues in the borough of Manhattan in New York City between Greenwich Village and Harlem. The routes are the successors to the New York ...

, a New York City Bus route in Manhattan * Route M-2 (MTA Maryland), a bus route in Baltimore, Maryland and its suburbs

Metro lines

M2 (Copenhagen) M2 is a line of the Copenhagen Metro, colored yellow on the map. It runs from Vanløse to Lufthavnen through the center of Copenhagen, sharing track with the M1 from Vanløse to Christianshavn. The line was built along with M1 as part of the r ...

, a line of the Copenhagen Metro, colored yellow on the map *

M2 (Istanbul Metro) The M2, officially referred to as the M2 Yenikapı–Hacıosman metro line (), is a rapid transit line of the Istanbul Metro. It is colored light green on the maps and route signs. The M2 operates between Sarıyer, Hacıosman in southern Sarıyer ...

, a metro line in Turkey * M2 (Lausanne), part of the Lausanne Metro in Switzerland *

Paris Métro Line 2 Paris Métro Line 2 ( French: ''Ligne 2 du métro de Paris'') is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. Situated almost entirely above the former customs barrier around the capital (''Boulevards extérieurs''), it runs in a semicircle i ...

, part of the Paris Metro in France *

Bucharest Metro Line M2 M2 () is one of the five lines of metro of the Bucharest Metro. The M2 Line runs from Pipera to Tudor Arghezi, thus linking the north to the south of the city. The line is the busiest on the system, passing through a multitude of neighbourhoods, ...

, part of the Bucharest Metro, Romania *

Line 2 (Budapest Metro) Line 2 (officially: East-West Line, Metro 2 or M2, and unofficially: Red Line) is the second line of the Budapest Metro. The line runs east from Déli pályaudvar (Budapest Metro), Déli pályaudvar in north-central Buda under the Danube to the ...

, the second line of Budapest Metro, Hungary *

M2 (Warsaw) The M2 line is the second line of the Warsaw Metro. It is currently long, has 18 stations and runs from Bródno metro station, Bródno neighborhood in Targówek district to the Bemowo metro station, Górce district in Bemowo. The planned line c ...

, the second line of Warsaw Metro, Poland * Line M2 - Milan Subway (Metropolitana di Milano)

Roads

* List of M2 roads * M2 (Brisbane), Australia *

M2 (Johannesburg) The M2 is a major highway and Metropolitan Routes in Johannesburg, metropolitan route in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa. It is named the ''Francois Oberholzer Freeway''. It runs just to the south of the Central Business District (Johannesbu ...

, a Metropolitan Route in Johannesburg, South Africa * M2 (Pretoria), a Metropolitan Route in Pretoria, South Africa *

M2 (Sydney) The M2 is a route in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, that links Sydney suburbs from Artarmon in the south-east to Bella Vista in the north-west. The route consists of two separately named motorways, the M2 Hills Motorway and the Lane Cove ...

, Australia *

M2 motorway (Great Britain) The M2 is a long motorway in Kent, England, and was built to bypass a section of the A2 road in Kent, which goes through the Medway Towns, Sittingbourne, and Faversham. It provides an alternative route to the Port of Dover, which supplemen ...

* M-2 (Kosovo)

Vehicles

M2 (railcar) The M2, M4 and M6 were three similar series of Multiple unit, electric multiple unit rail cars produced by the Budd Company (M2), Tokyu Car Corporation (M4), and Morrison-Knudsen (M6) for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the Co ...

, a Metro-North Railroad railcar *

BMW M2 The BMW M2 is a high-performance version of the BMW 2 Series automobile developed by BMW's motorsport division, BMW M GmbH. As the 2 Series replaced the 1 Series coupé and convertible models, the first-generation M2 was marketed as the most ba ...

, a variant of the BMW 2 Series * Freightliner M2, a cubetruck and chassis variants * Kubicek M-2 Scout, a Czech ultralight aircraft * LNER Class M2, a class of British steam locomotives

Science

M2 protein The Matrix-2 (M2) protein is a proton-selective viroporin, integral in the viral envelope of the influenza A virus. The channel itself is a homotetramer (consists of four identical M2 units), where the units are helices stabilized by two disulfide ...

, an ion channel in the cell membrane of the influenza A virus * ATC code M02, ''Topical products for joint and muscular pain'', a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System * British NVC community M2, a mire biological community in the United Kingdom *

Messier 2 Messier 2 or M2 (also designated NGC 7089) is a globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius (constellation), Aquarius, five degrees north of the star Beta Aquarii. It was discovered by Jean-Dominique Maraldi in 1746, and is one of the largest k ...

, a globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius * Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M₂, a muscarinic receptor for acetylcholine found mainly in the heart * M2 or M₂, the principal lunar semi-diurnal constituent of tides on Earth * M2, a form of

high speed steel High-speed steel (HSS or HS) is a subset of tool steels, commonly used as cutting tool material. Compared to high-carbon steel tools, high-speed steels can withstand higher temperatures without losing their temper (hardness), allowing use of f ...

in the tungsten-molybdenum series * M2 macrophage, a phenotype of macrophage *

M2 (economics) In macroeconomics, money supply (or money stock) refers to the total volume of money held by the public at a particular point in time. There are several ways to define "money", but standard measures usually include currency in circulation (i ...

, a measure of the money supply

Other

* M2 (Mazda), a marketing approach by Mazda *

M2 Group M2 Group Ltd was an Australian retailer and wholesaler of telecommunications services as well as power, gas and insurance products. On 5 February 2016, M2 Group Ltd merged into Vocus Communications. History Established in 1999, M2 Group Ltd ...

, an Australian seller of telecommunications services, power, gas, and insurance products * M-2 visa, a type of United States visa for the dependents of an individual with an M-1 visa *

Leica M2 The Leica M2 is a 35 mm rangefinder camera by Ernst Leitz GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, introduced in 1957. Around 82,000 M2s were produced between 1957 and 1968. Around 1500 M2s were produced by Ernst Leitz Canada, but most of these are not marked ...

, a 35 mm rangefinder camera introduced in 1957 *

Panasonic M2 Panasonic M2, earlier known as 3DO M2, is a multimedia terminal and cancelled video game console. It was initially developed by The 3DO Company as a peripheral chip for the 3DO hardware before turning into a standalone successor system. In Janu ...

, a video game console design * m² or

square metre The square metre ( international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square meter ( American spelling) is the unit of area in the International System of Units (SI) with symbol m2. It is the area of a square ...

, a unit of area * M2, one of the

ISO metric screw thread The ISO metric screw thread is the most commonly used type of general-purpose screw thread worldwide. They were one of the first international standards agreed when the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was set up in 1947. T ...

sizes * M2 World Championship, the second esports ''Mobile Legends: Bang Bang'' World Championship held in 2021 * M2, a difficulty grade in

mixed climbing Mixed climbing is an ice climbing discipline used on climbing routes that do not have enough ice to be regular ice climbs, but are also not dry enough to be regular rock climbing, rock climbs. To ascend the route, the mixed-climber uses ice-cli ...

M2 Competition (team) M2 Competition are a motorsport team based in New Zealand and Belgium. History Founded in 2010, M2 Competition began partaking in the New Zealand-based single-seater championship the Castrol Toyota Racing Series in 2011, with Ivan Lukashevich ...

, a New Zealand auto racing team * M2, a

monetary aggregate In macroeconomics, money supply (or money stock) refers to the total volume of money held by the public at a particular point in time. There are several ways to define "money", but standard measures usually include currency in circulation (i ...

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