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  • mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
  • manorial system — manorialism.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • manx shearwater — a European oceanic bird, Puffinus puffinus, with long slender wings and black-and-white plumage: family Procellariidae (shearwaters)
  • marc andreessen — (person)   The man who founded Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1994 with Dr. James H. Clark. Andreessen has been a director since September 1994. As an undergraduate at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Andreessen created the Mosaic web browser prototype with a team of students and staff at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). With a friendly, point-and-click method for navigating the Internet and free distribution to network users, NCSA Mosaic gained an estimated two million users worldwide in just over one year. Andreessen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois in 1993.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
  • marianske lazne — a spa in W Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic. 18,510.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • market analysis — the process of determining factors, conditions, and characteristics of a market.
  • marsh andromeda — a low-growing pink-flowered ericaceous evergreen shrub, Andromeda polifolia, that grows in peaty bogs of northern regions
  • martensitically — in a martensitic manner
  • mascarene grass — a creeping grass, Zoysia tenuifolia, naturalized in California and Florida, having fine leaves and shoots that make good turf.
  • masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
  • master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
  • master mechanic — a mechanic, especially one who is thoroughly skilled, in charge of other mechanics.
  • master sergeant — Army, Air Force, Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer ranking next to the highest noncommissioned officer.
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • materialisation — Alternative spelling of materialization.
  • maternity dress — a dress worn by a pregnant woman and which is designed to allow for the changes in body size which take place during pregnancy
  • matrix sentence — Linguistics. a sentence in which another sentence is embedded: In The man who called is waiting, The man is waiting is a matrix sentence.
  • meals on wheels — a program, usually one supported or subsidized by a charitable, social, or government agency, for delivering hot meals regularly to elderly, disabled, or convalescing persons who are housebound and cannot cook for themselves.
  • mean solar time — time measured by the hour angle of the mean sun.
  • meaninglessness — without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
  • means to an end — method of achieving sth
  • meantone system — a system for tuning keyboard instruments, used before the development of tuning by equal temperament and considered practical only for tonalities of not more than two sharps or flats.
  • measurelessness — The state or condition of being measureless.
  • measurement ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
  • measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
  • measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
  • measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
  • mechanic's lien — a lien secured on property, as an automobile, building, or the like, by the contractor who has repaired or built it, in order to ensure payment for labor and materials.
  • mechanistically — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
  • mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • medical student — trainee doctor
  • melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
  • mendeleev's law — periodic law (def 2).
  • menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
  • menomonee falls — a city in SE Wisconsin, NW of Milwaukee.
  • menstrual cycle — (in women of reproductive age) the cycle of physiological changes affecting the reproductive organs that takes place typically over a month and includes ovulation, thickening of the lining of the womb and menstruation if fertilization of the egg has not occurred
  • mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
  • mental hospital — psychiatric institution
  • mephistophelean — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mephistophelian — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • merchant seaman — a seaman who works on a merchant vessel.
  • message passing — One of the two techniques for communicating between parallel processes (the other being shared memory). A common use of message passing is for communication in a parallel computer. A process running on one processor may send a message to a process running on the same processor or another. The actual transmission of the message is usually handled by the run-time support of the language in which the processes are written, or by the operating system. Message passing scales better than shared memory, which is generally used in computers with relatively few processors. This is because the total communications bandwidth usually increases with the number of processors. A message passing system provides primitives for sending and receiving messages. These primitives may by either synchronous or asynchronous or both. A synchronous send will not complete (will not allow the sender to proceed) until the receiving process has received the message. This allows the sender to know whether the message was received successfully or not (like when you speak to someone on the telephone). An asynchronous send simply queues the message for transmission without waiting for it to be received (like posting a letter). A synchronous receive primitive will wait until there is a message to read whereas an asynchronous receive will return immediately, either with a message or to say that no message has arrived. Messages may be sent to a named process or to a named mailbox which may be readable by one or many processes. Transmission involves determining the location of the recipient and then choosing a route to reach that location. The message may be transmitted in one go or may be split into packets which are transmitted independently (e.g. using wormhole routing) and reassembled at the receiver. The message passing system must ensure that sufficient memory is available to buffer the message at its destination and at intermediate nodes. Messages may be typed or untyped at the programming language level. They may have a priority, allowing the receiver to read the highest priority messages first. Some message passing computers are the MIT J-Machine, the Illinois Concert Project and transputer-based systems.
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • metropolitanism — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • mexican spanish — Spanish as used in Mexico. Abbreviation: MexSp.
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