| measured intelligence | That intelligence which can be ranked relative to an age or peer group quantitative index by use of scores on intelligence tests. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| measurement | Determination of a dimension or quantity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| measures of central tendency | General term for several characteristics of the distribution of a set of measurements or values around a value or values at or near the middle of the set; the principal measures of central tendency are mean, median, and mode. (05 Mar 2000) |
| measuring | Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured. <zoology> Measuring worm, the larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| meat | 1. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . To you it shall be for meat." (Gen. I. 29) "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you." (Gen. Ix. 3) 2. The flesh of animals used as food; especially, animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat. 3. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. Meat biscuit. See Biscuit. <chemical> Meat earth, vegetable mold. Meat fly. <zoology> An offering of food, especially. Of a cake made of flour with salt and oil. To go to meat, to go to a meal. To sit at meat, to sit at the table in taking food. Origin: OE. Mete, AS. Mete; akin to OS. Mat, meti, D. Met hashed meat, G. Mettwurst sausage, OHG. Maz food, Icel. Matr, Sw. Mat, Dan. Mad, Goth. Mats. Cf. Mast fruit, Mush. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| meat products | Articles of food which are derived by a process of manufacture from any portion of carcasses of any animal used for food (e.g., head cheese, sausage, scrapple). (12 Dec 1998) |
| meat-packing industry | The aggregate enterprise of technically producing packaged meat. (12 Dec 1998) |
| meatal | Relating to a meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatal cartilage | The cartilage that forms the wall of the lateral part of the external acoustic meatus. It is incomplete above and is firmly attached to the margins of the bony part of the external meatus. Synonym: cartilago meatus acustici, meatal cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatal spine | Small bony prominence anterior to the supramastoid pit at the posterosuperior margin of the bony external acoustic meatus. Synonym: spina suprameatica, Henle's spine, meatal spine, spina meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meato- | Meatus. Origin: L. Meatus, passage (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatometer | An instrument for measuring the size of a meatus, especially the meatus of the urethra. Origin: meato-+ G. Metron, measure (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatoplasty | Plastic surgery of a meatus or canal, e.g., the external auditory meatus or the urethral meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatorrhaphy | Closing by suture of the wound made by performing a meatomy. Origin: meato-+ G. Rhaphe, suture (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatoscope | <instrument> A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra. Origin: Meatus + -scope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mean life |
(Or mean lifetime, lifetime.) The average time during which anything can be said to reside within a specified region or to exist unchanged; for example, the mean life of a chemical species in the atmosphere, the mean life of a radioactive nucleus, the mean life of photons in a cloud. For processes following the same exponential law as radioactive decay, mean life is related simply to half-life.
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| meal |
(Physical form) An ingredient which has been ground or otherwise reduced in particle size (AAFCO, 2000).
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| measles |
an illness caused by a viral infection, causing a characteristic rash and a fever; primarily affects children
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| meal |
When referring to food ingredients, meal means a ground-up preparation. Chicken meal is ground up chicken, which might include bones and feathers. Meat meal means ground up muscle meat.
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| mealworm |
[MEEL-werm] a type of slender, hardbodied beetle larva, generally found in grains and cereals, that developes into a type of darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae).
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| MEA | deficient in amount or quality or extent |
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| MEA | barely adequate |
| MEA | deficient in amount or quality or extent |
| MEA | to a meager degree or in a meager manner |
| MEA | the quality of being meager |
| MEA | deficient in amount or quality or extent |
| MEA | to a meager degree or in a meager manner |
| MEA | the quality of being meager |
| MEA | coarsely ground foodstuff |
| MEA | the food served and eaten at one time |
| MEA | a plan and a room rate for providing meals to guests at a hotel |
| MEA | coupon redeemable at a restaurant and entitling the holder to a meal |