17-letter words containing m, a, t, o, g, r

managing director — manager who oversees a project
margaret hamilton — (person) (born 1936-08-17) A computer scientist, systems engineer and business owner, credited with coining the term software engineering. Margaret Hamilton published over 130 papers, proceedings and reports about the 60 projects and six major programs in which she has been involved. In 1965 she became Director of Software Programming at MIT's Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. At NASA, Hamilton pioneered the Apollo on-board guidance software that navigated to and landed on the Moon and formed the basis for software used in later missions. At the time, programming was a hands-on, engineering descipline; computer science and software engineering barely existed. Hamilton produced innovations in system design and software development, enterprise and process modelling, development paradigms, formal systems modelling languages, system-oriented objects for systems modelling and development, automated life-cycle environments, software reliability, software reuse, domain analysis, correctness by built-in language properties, open architecture techniques for robust systems, full life-cycle automation, quality assurance, seamless integration, error detection and recovery, man-machine interface systems, operating systems, end-to-end testing and life-cycle management. She developed concepts of asynchronous software, priority scheduling and Human-in-the-loop decision capability, which became the foundation for modern, ultra-reliable software design. The Apollo 11 moon landing would have aborted when spurious data threatened to overload the computer, but thanks to the innovative asynchronous, priority based scheduling, it eliminated the unnecessary processing and completed the landing successfully. In 1986, she founded Hamilton Technologies, Inc., developed around the Universal Systems Language and her systems and software design paradigm of Development Before the Fact (DBTF).
margaret of anjou — 1430–82, queen of Henry VI of England.
mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
megaelectron volt — million electron volts.
memetic algorithm — (algorithm) A genetic algorithm or evolutionary algorithm which includes a non-genetic local search to improve genotypes. The term comes from the Richard Dawkin's term "meme". One big difference between memes and genes is that memes are processed and possibly improved by the people that hold them - something that cannot happen to genes. It is this advantage that the memetic algorithm has over simple genetic or evolutionary algorithms. These algorithms are useful in solving complex problems, such as the "Travelling Salesman Problem," which involves finding the shortest path through a large number of nodes, or in creating artificial life to test evolutionary theories. Memetic algorithms are one kind of metaheuristic. (07 July 1997)
memory management — (memory management, storage) A collection of techniques for providing sufficient memory to one or more processes in a computer system, especially when the system does not have enough memory to satisfy all processes' requirements simultaneously. Techniques include swapping, paging and virtual memory. Memory management is usually performed mostly by a hardware memory management unit.
messier catalogue — a catalogue of 103 nonstellar objects, such as nebulae and galaxies, prepared in 1781–86. An object is referred to by its number in this catalogue, for example the Andromeda Galaxy is referred to as M31
micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
microphotographic — Relating to microphotography.
mileage indicator — a device on a vehicle such as a car, plane, etc which indicates the number of miles travelled
military governor — the military officer in command of a military government.
misorganization's — the act or process of organizing.
montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
mother of vinegar — mother2 .
motorcycle racing — sport: competing on motorcycles
motoring magazine — a magazine about cars
multigenerational — of or relating to several generations, as of a family, or society: a multigenerational novel covering 300 years.
mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
natural logarithm — a logarithm having e as a base. Symbol: ln.
network marketing — a marketing strategy in which sales representatives of a company recruit other salespeople and earn commissions on their own sales and on the sales made by their team: Use your personal relationships to be successful in network marketing.
non-argumentative — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
non-incriminating — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
non-profit-making — A non-profit-making organization or charity is not run with the intention of making a profit.
nondiscriminating — differentiating; analytical.
normal orthogonal — orthonormal.
northern michigan — the peninsula between lakes Superior and Michigan constituting the N part of Michigan. Abbreviation: U.P.
nothing more than — merely, solely
on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
orthogonal matrix — a matrix that is the inverse of its transpose so that any two rows or any two columns are orthogonal vectors
outline agreement — a contract, etc, setting out the preliminary terms or guidelines for an agreement; a preliminary agreement
permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
popular etymology — folk etymology.
portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
program generator — a computer program that can be used to help to create other computer programs
program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
rat-tailed maggot — the aquatic larva of any of several syrphid flies of the genus Eristalis, that breathes through a long, thin tube at the posterior end of its body.
request programme — a programme on the radio where listeners can request certain songs or tracks
senior management — the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion

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