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  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • modern icelandic — the Icelandic language since c1550.
  • modern languages — languages currently spoken
  • modified-release — denoting a formulation of a medicinal drug taken orally that releases the active ingredients over several hours, in order to maintain a relatively constant plasma concentration of the drug
  • modular language — (language)   (Modula) Wirth's 1977 predecessor of Modula-2. The original Modula was, more oriented toward concurrent programming, but otherwise quite similar.
  • molecular volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a substance
  • molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
  • molotov cocktail — a crude incendiary grenade consisting of a bottle filled with a flammable liquid and a wick that is ignited before throwing: used originally for setting fire to enemy tanks during the Spanish Civil War.
  • molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
  • mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
  • money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
  • mongolian idiocy — (no longer in technical use) Down syndrome.
  • monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
  • monoethanolamine — Monoethanolamine is an amino acid used as a surfactant (= a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid and allows it to foam or penetrate solids).
  • monopolistically — In a monopolistic manner.
  • monosyllabically — In single syllables.
  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • montpelier maple — a maple, Acer monspessulanum, that is native to southern Europe and Northwest Africa
  • monumental mason — a person who makes gravestones and suchlike
  • moral philosophy — philosophy dealing with the principles of morality; ethics.
  • moral rearmament — a worldwide movement initiated by Frank Buchman in 1938 as a successor to the Oxford Group, and maintaining that the practice of high morality in public and private life is the key to world betterment. Abbreviation: MRA.
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
  • most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
  • motorola 68lc040 — (processor)   A version of the Motorola 68040 with no MMU or FPU, making it more like an enhanced Motorola 68020. A Power Macintosh can emulate a Motorola 68LC040.
  • moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
  • mount carmel man — an early human of Neanderthaloid type, known from skeletal remains from the late Pleistocene Epoch, c50,000–40,000 b.c., found in Palestine.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • mousseline sauce — a light sauce, made by adding whipped cream or egg whites to hollandaise sauce
  • moving violation — any of various traffic violations committed while a vehicle is in motion, as speeding, driving through a red light, or going the wrong direction on a one-way street.
  • mulberry harbour — either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
  • multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
  • multimillionaire — a person who possesses a fortune that amounts to many millions of dollars, francs, etc.
  • multinationalism — a large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several countries.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • multiple myeloma — a malignant plasma cell tumor of the bone marrow that destroys bone tissue.
  • multiprogramming — multitasking
  • municipalization — (economics) The transfer of corporations or other assets to municipal ownership.
  • musculocutaneous — of, relating to, or supplying the muscles and skin
  • musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
  • mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
  • mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system)   (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
  • mutual induction — the production of an electromotive force in one circuit by a change in current in another circuit.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
  • national costume — traditional dress
  • natural monopoly — the situation when, due to the economies of scale of a particular industry, the maximum efficiency of production and distribution is realized through a single supplier
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