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  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • manganese oxide — a type of metallic oxide used to colour glass purple
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • meaninglessness — without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • microaggression — a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype: microaggressions such as "I don't see you as black.".
  • microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation
  • miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • misregistration — the act of registering.
  • mitigate a risk — If something or someone mitigates a risk, they make the effects of a loss or risk less unpleasant, harmful, or serious.
  • mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
  • mohandas gandhi — Indira [in-deer-uh] /ɪnˈdɪər ə/ (Show IPA), 1917–84, Indian political leader: prime minister 1966–77 and 1980–84 (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru).
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
  • mucosanguineous — containing or made up of blood and mucus
  • multilingualism — using or able to speak several or many languages with some facility.
  • musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
  • neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
  • nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
  • nothingarianism — Beliefs and practices of a nothingarian.
  • nottinghamshire — a county in central England. 854 sq. mi. (2210 sq. km).
  • numismatologist — One versed in numismatology.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
  • onomasiological — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
  • opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • ophthalmologist — a doctor of medicine specializing in ophthalmology.
  • opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
  • organomagnesium — pertaining to or noting an organic compound, especially an organic halide, containing magnesium linked to carbon.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
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