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  • motorola 68030 — (processor)   A 32-bit microprocessor in Motorola's Motorola 68000 family, with on-chip split instruction and data cache of 256 bytes each. The 68030 has an on-chip MMU (except in the 680EC30 version). The 68881 and the faster 68882 FPU chips could be used with the 68030. The 68030 was the successor to the Motorola 68020, and was followed by the Motorola 68040. The 68030 is used in many models of the Apple Macintosh II series of personal computers.
  • motorola 68040 — (processor)   (MC68040) A microprocessor from Motorola. It was the successor to the Motorola 68030 and was followed by the Motorola 68060. The 68040 was the first 680x0 family member with an on-chip FPU. It also had split instruction and data caches of 4 kilobytes(?) each. It was fully pipelined, with six stages. The 68040 was used in the Apple Macintosh Quadra series of personal computers. The MC68LC040 is an MC68040 without a built-in FPU, and the MC68EC040 is an MC68040 without an MMU or FPU.
  • motorola 68050 — There was no 68050. The successor to the Motorola 68040 was the Motorola 68060. The even numbers (68000, 68020, 68060) were reserved for major revisions to the 680x0 core. The odd numbers (68010, 68030, 68050) were minor upgrades from the previous chip. For example, the Motorola 68010 was a Motorola 68000 with some minor enhancements and modifications to some user/superuser instruction assignments. The Motorola 68030 was a Motorola 68020 with an MMU and more minor enhancements. The 68050 would have been a 68040 with some bugs fixed, which didn't really warrant a new name so it was sold as a 68040.
  • motorola 68060 — (processor)   A 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, the successor to the Motorola 68040. The 68060 is the highest performance 680x0 family processor currently (April 1995) available. It has 2 to 3 times the performance of the 68040. The 68060 is probably the last development from Motorola in the high performacnce 680x0 series. They don't want to compete with their own PowerPC chips. The 680x0 series is intended more for embedded systems, where it is already very popular. New developments here seem to integrate more peripheral functions on chip rather than increasing processing power.
  • motorola 680x0 — (processor)   Shorthand for any member for the Motorola 68000 family of microprocessors from Motorola, Inc. The "x" stands for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6.
  • motorola 88000 — A family of RISC microprocessors from Motorola.
  • motorola, inc. — (company)   One of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems and services. Major equipment businesses include mobile telephone, two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics, computers, satellite communications systems, police and emergency service radio systems, taxicab dispatching (radio) systems. Communication devices, computers and millions of consumer products are powered by Motorola semiconductors. They are probably best known in the computing world for their microprocessors, including the Motorola 6800 and Motorola 68000 CISC families and Motorola 88000 RISCs, the Motorola DSP56000 digital signal processors and the PowerPC on which they collaborated. They also led the development of VMEbus. Quarterly sales $5400M, profits $367M (Aug 1994). See also Envoy, Monsoon, MPL. Address: Schaumberg, Illinois, USA.
  • mottled enamel — fluorosis (def 2).
  • mount pleasant — a city in central Michigan.
  • mount wrangell — a mountain in S Alaska, in the W Wrangell Mountains. Height: 4269 m (14 005 ft)
  • mountain nyala — a similar and related Ethiopian animal, T. buxtoni, lacking the white crest
  • movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
  • much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
  • multarticulate — having multiple joints
  • multi-location — the state or power of being in more than two places at the same time.
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
  • multiarticular — of or relating to the joints.
  • multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
  • multichromatic — Involving more than one colour.
  • multicollinear — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting multicollinearity.
  • multidialectal — encompassing or involving several dialects
  • multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
  • multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
  • multigrade oil — Multigrade oil is engine or gear oil which works well at both low and high temperatures.
  • multilaterally — In a multilateral manner.
  • multilingually — In a multilingual manner.
  • multimolecular — (chemistry, physics) Involving multiple molecules.
  • multinationals — Plural form of multinational.
  • multinucleated — Having multiple nuclei; multinucleate.
  • multiparameter — Having, or employing multiple parameters.
  • multiple value — (database)   (MU) A one-to-many relationship between entries in a database, for example a person may have an address field which spanned multiple records (with different indexes). Multiple values are a non-relational technique. MUs have recently been made available in DB2, despite the product being so heavily influenced by Codd's Laws of relational databases.
  • multiplication — the act or process of multiplying or the state of being multiplied.
  • multiplicative — tending to multiply or increase.
  • multipotential — able to differentiate along several lines
  • multiracialism — The promotion of a diverse society composed of various races with different cultural backgrounds.
  • multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
  • multispecialty — (US) Exhibiting or possessing multiple specialties (especially medical specialties).
  • multithreading — (parallel)   Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • musca volitans — floater (def 6).
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
  • mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
  • mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
  • mutual society — co-operative organization
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