At 07:17 PM 2/19/2006 +0200, you wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Dwayne Reid wrote:
>
> > At 07:41 PM 2/17/2006, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> >
> >> If one can't sensibly distinguish (abbreviated) millifarad from 
> microfarad,
> >> how can one distinguish milliampere from microampere? Or, the other way
> >> 'round, if one can distinguish milliampere from microampere, why can't one
> >> distinguish millifarad from microfarad? It is correct that capacitors 
> in mF
> >> ranges (or F ranges) were rare twenty (or fifty) years ago, but so were
> >> SOIC cases. I just use them, and call them what they are.
> >
> > Some of the (really) old schematics I used to deal with were pretty
> > consistent:  they contained both "mf" and "mmf" designations.  But I don't
> > remember that usage continuing past the mid 1960's.
>
>But what is a 'cm' ? There used to be schematics with 'cm' units on
>caps. What is a 'cm' ?

It *Italian*?

I'll take a WAG (helped a bit by a web search since I know about 15 words of
Italian, not including food-related terms) and say it's not units but
"motor run capacitor", "condensatore di marcia" or something like dat.

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