TME

T1M3E1

noun

hyl

“Coordinate term: TMA”

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TME1

nounTME (countable and uncountable, plural TMEs)

plural TMEs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of total mesorectal excision.
adjectiveTME (not comparable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparableInitialism of transmisogyny-exempt: not transfeminine.

    Coordinate term: TMA

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    This chapter is based on sixteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews with US-based transgender sex workers on the trans masculine spectrum; specifically, the sample includes seven nonbinary individuals and nine trans men who are TME (trans misogyny exempt).

    2023, Elliot Chudyk, The Gendered Relations of Queer(ed) Femininities: Failures, Tensions, Subversions, and Queer Potentialities, PhD dissertation, order no. 30318654 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

    Additionally, trans women and other trans feminine individuals face far elevated levels of mental and physical trauma and violence compared to their transmisogyny-exempt (TME) peers, directly related to their gender and gender expression through pervasive transmisogyny

    2024, Teresa Van Winkle, Navigating the World: Understanding Gender Expression Through the Experiences of Transgender and Nonbinary People, Master's thesis, order no. 31336206 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

    Perhaps most famous among contemporary accounts of such condemnation is Porpentine Charity Heartscape’s (2015) pivotal text on transfeminine disposability, “Hot Allostatic Load,” which describes conditions of abjection faced by victims of unsubstantiated callouts, abuse, and ultimate abandonment. In it Heartscape traces a pattern of incorporation, exploitation, and abandonment that characterizes transfeminine involvement in self-identified “queer spaces” dominated by transmisogyny-exempt (TME) people.

    2025 May 28, [sarah] Cavar, “Access Fictions: Clarity, Violence, and the Promise of transMad Opacity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 12, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN

TME2

noun
  1. hyl

    The hyl is also called "metric slug" or designated by the German acronym TME (Technische Mass Einheit).

    2000 October 9, Gérard P. Michon, “What is a slug, in the [engineering] weight measurement system?”, in Numericana.com

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TME · noun, adjective

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TME · noun

  1. GermanTME“technische Masseneinheit”
  2. EnglishTME

Borrowed from German TME (“technische Masseneinheit”, literally “technical mass unit”).

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APA

TME. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/TME

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“TME.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/TME. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “TME,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/TME.

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