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  • measuring device — gauge
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
  • migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
  • minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
  • missile launcher — system that fires missiles
  • multiculturalism — the state or condition of being multicultural.
  • multiculturalist — Pertaining to or advocating multiculturalism.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • munching squares — A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T - see HAKMEM items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated as a parameter, which, when well-chosen, can produce amazing effects. Some of these, later (re)discovered on the LISP Machine, have been christened "munching triangles" (try AND for XOR and toggling points instead of plotting them), "munching w's", and "munching mazes". More generally, suppose a graphics program produces an impressive and ever-changing display of some basic form, foo, on a display terminal, and does it using a relatively simple program; then the program (or the resulting display) is likely to be referred to as "munching foos". [This is a good example of the use of the word foo as a metasyntactic variable.]
  • musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
  • mutual insurance — insurance in which those insured become members of a company who reciprocally engage, by payment of certain amounts into a common fund, to indemnify one another against loss.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
  • naturalistically — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
  • neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
  • neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • non-naturalistic — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
  • nuclear emulsion — a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.
  • nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
  • nutcracker suite — a ballet and concert suite (1892) arranged by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky from his orchestral work for a ballet, The Nutcracker.
  • over-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • overcautiousness — the quality or state of being too cautious, wary, or careful
  • overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • paediatric nurse — a nurse who specializes in the care of children
  • papillary muscle — one of the small bundles of muscles attached to the ventricle walls and to the chordae tendineae that tighten these tendons during ventricular contraction.
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • permaculturalist — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • personality cult — deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader
  • persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
  • phosphorous acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble acid of phosphorus, H 3 PO 3 , from which phosphites are derived.
  • picture postcard — postcard (def 1).
  • piscis austrinus — a small constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Aquarius and Grus and containing the first-magnitude star Fomalhaut
  • plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
  • poitou-charentes — a region of W central France, on the Bay of Biscay: mainly low-lying
  • primary consumer — (in the food chain) an animal that feeds on plants; a herbivore.
  • principal clause — the main clause.
  • prosecution case — the case brought against someone by a legal authority
  • pseudo-patriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
  • pseudo-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • pseudohistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
  • public transport — fare-paying travel
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • quasi-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
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