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  • magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
  • magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
  • magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • mailing machine — a machine that prepares mail for sending, as by addressing, stamping, weighing, etc.
  • make a big deal — If someone makes a big deal out of something, they make a fuss about it or treat it as if it were very important.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • marriageability — The condition of being marriageable.
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • meaninglessness — without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
  • measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
  • megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
  • meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
  • messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
  • metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • metallo-organic — organometallic.
  • metallurgically — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
  • milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
  • milling machine — a machine tool for rotating a cutter (milling cutter) to produce plane or formed surfaces on a workpiece, usually by moving the work past the cutter.
  • mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
  • mineralogically — With regard to mineralogy.
  • minimum tillage — no-tillage.
  • miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation
  • mollier diagram — a graph showing the enthalpy of a substance as a function of its entropy when some physical property of the substance, as temperature or pressure, is kept at a specified constant value.
  • monumentalizing — Present participle of monumentalize.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
  • neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
  • noli me tangere — a person or thing that must not be touched or interfered with.
  • noli-me-tangere — a person or thing that must not be touched or interfered with.
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
  • oligomerization — (chemistry) The formation of an oligomer from a monomer.
  • omega-algebraic — In domain theory, a complete partial order is algebraic if every element is the lub of some chain of compact elements. If the set of compact elements is countable it is omega-algebraic. Usually written with a Greek letter omega (LaTeX \omega).
  • ophthalmoplegia — Paralysis of the muscles within or surrounding the eye.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
  • palaeolimnology — the study of ancient lake ecologies
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
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