M2 Explained

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 (TV channel), 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)
• M2, the former name for MTV2, an American TV channel
• M2 (game developer), Japanese game developer

Computing

• M.2, a specification for internally mounted expansion cards
• Apple M2, a central processing unit in the Apple M series
• Socket M2, a CPU socket
• Memory Stick Micro, a removable flash memory card format
• Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2, an early Russian digital computer (1957)
• Opera Mail, formerly known as M2
• Modula-2, a computer programming language
• Macaulay2, a free computer algebra system

Military

Vehicles

• M2 (missile), a French submarine-launched ballistic missile
• M2 Bradley, an armored fighting vehicle
• M2 half-track car
• M2 light tank
• 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, a military aircraft tug

Weapons

• M2 Ball, ammunition
• M2 Browning, a heavy machine gun in use since the 1920s
• M2 carbine, a select-fire carbine
• M2 flamethrower
• M2 Hyde, submachine gun
• M2 mine, a World War II land mine
• M2 mortar, a 60 mm infantry mortar
• M2 4.2-inch mortar, a 107mm infantry mortar
• M2 tripod, a weapon mount
• Mauser M2, semi-automatic handgun made by Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH
• M2 Aiming Circle, an optical survey device to measure deflection angles and elevation off a predefined azimuth
• M2 compass (Brunton compass), used for mortars and field artillery; uses 6400 mils as opposed to 360 degrees
• M2 howitzer, the WW2 designation for the M101 howitzer
• M2/M4 Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition (SLAM), a land mine
• Anti-Aircraft Target Rocket M2, a World War II training rocket

Transport

Bus routes

• M2 (New York City bus), 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), a line of the Copenhagen Metro, colored yellow on the map
• M2 (Istanbul Metro), a metro line in Turkey
• M2 (Lausanne), part of the Lausanne Metro in Switzerland
• Paris Métro Line 2, part of the Paris Metro in France
• Bucharest Metro Line M2, part of the Bucharest Metro, Romania
• Line 2 (Budapest Metro), the second line of Budapest Metro, Hungary
• M2 (Warsaw), the second line of Warsaw Metro, Poland
• Line M2 - Milan Subway (Metropolitana di Milano)

Roads

• List of M2 roads
• M2 (Brisbane), Australia
• M2 (Johannesburg), a Metropolitan Route in Johannesburg, South Africa
• M2 (Pretoria), a Metropolitan Route in Pretoria, South Africa
• M2 (Sydney), Australia
• M2 motorway (Great Britain)

Vehicles

• M2 (railcar), a Metro-North Railroad railcar
• BMW M2, 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, 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, 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 in the tungsten-molybdenum series
• M2 macrophage, a phenotype of macrophage
• M2 (economics), a measure of the money supply

Other

• M2 (Mazda), a marketing approach by Mazda
• M2 Group, 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, a 35 mm rangefinder camera introduced in 1957
• Panasonic M2, a video game console design
• m² or square metre, a unit of area
• M2, one of the ISO metric screw thread sizes
• M2 World Championship, the second esports Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship held in 2021
• M2, a difficulty grade in mixed climbing
• M2 Competition (team), a New Zealand auto racing team

See also

• • • • M² (disambiguation)
• MII (disambiguation)
• Model 2 (disambiguation)
• MM (disambiguation)
• 2M (disambiguation)