Definitions beginning with M

A modification that in and of itself meets the criteria of acquisition category I or II or is designated as such by the milestone decision authority. Major modifications require a Milestone IV decision unless the decision to modify results from one of the alternatives considered as part of the Milestone I decision process. Upgrades are part of the Milestone 0 decision process.
DoD Missile Defense Agency - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Milestones (MS), MS, MSWG, PERT Chart, POA&M, System Concept Paper (SCP)

Major System - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Defense

A combination of elements that will function together to produce the capabilities required to fulfill a mission need, including hardware, equipment, software, or any combination thereof, but excluding construction or other improvements to real property. A system shall be considered a major system if it is estimated by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology to require: 1. An eventual total expenditure for research, development, test, and evaluation of more than $75,000,000 in fiscal year 1980 constant dollars (approximately $115,000,000 in fiscal year 1990 constant dollars), or 2. An eventual total expenditure for procurement of more than $300,000,000 in fiscal year 1980 constant dollars (approximately $540,000,000 in fiscal year 1990 constant dollars).
DoD Missile Defense Agency - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Major Defense Acquisition Program, Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP)

Major Version - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Collaboration > SharePoint

An iteration of a document, or list item that is ready for a larger group to see, or has changed significantly since the previous major version. For an item on a SharePoint site, the minor version is always zero for a major version.
Richard Harbridge - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: DAV, default version, Minor Version, Published Version, version history, version label, versioning

Make a market - permalink - collapse

All > Business > Finance > Personal Finance

A dealer who specializes in a specific security, such as a bond or stock, is said to make a market in that security. That means the dealer is ready to buy or sell at least one round lot of the security at its publicly quoted price.
Other broker-dealers turn to a market maker when they want to buy or sell that particular security either for their own account or for a client's account.
Electronic markets, such as NASDAQ, tend to have several market makers in a particular security. The overall effect of multiple market makers is greater liquidity in the marketplace and more competitive pricing.

Yahoo Finance - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Ask, BID, bid and ask, Dealer, Firm quote, Market maker, Offer, Quotation (Quote)

Make-Available Production - permalink - collapse

All > Law > E-Discovery

A process whereby what is usually a large universe of all potentially responsive documents are made available to the requestor; from this universe, the requestor then reviews and selects or tags the documents which they wish to obtain, and the producing party produces to the requestor only the selected documents. This is sometimes done under an agreement protecting against privilege and confidentiality waiver during the initial make available production; and the producing party, after the requestor has sel
AmDoc - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Data Set, Privilege Data Set, Production Data Set, Redact, Redaction

Makefile - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Programming > Perl

A file that controls the compilation of a program. Perl programs don't usually need a "Makefile" because the Perl compiler has plenty of self-control.
Perl - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: C preprocessor, compilation unit, compiler, extension, interpreter, yacc

make interval - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Telecommunications

1. In dial-pulse signaling, that portion of the dial pulse in which the network applies a low resistance between the tip and ring conductors at the network interface (NI). [T1.407-1997] 2. In dial-pulse signaling, that portion of the dial pulse in which the pulsing circuit is in its low-impedance condition. [T1.405-1989]
ATIS - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: break interval, dial pulse, dial-pulse period, dial-pulse signaling, dial pulsing, percent break, wink, wink pulsing

Make table - permalink - collapse

All > Business > Economics

A table in the input-output (I-O) accounts. The make table shows the production of commodities by industries. It shows the value, in producers' prices, of each commodity produced by each industry. In each row, one "diagonal" cell shows the value of the production of the commodity for which the industry has been designated the primary producer. The entries in the other cells in the row show the values of the production of commodities for which the industry is a secondary producer. The entries in each column of the make table represent the production by both primary and secondary producers of the commodity in the column. Related terms: Direct requirements table, Total requirements table, Use table.
Bureau of Economic Analysis - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Capital flows table, Commodity flow method, Direct requirements table, Input-output (I-O) accounts, Leontief inversion approach, Top-down model, Total requirements table, Total requirements tables, Use table, Use tables

Make tables - permalink - collapse

All > Business > Economics

See Make table
Bureau of Economic Analysis - Cite This Source - This Definition

Mala - permalink - collapse

All > Law > Common Legal Terms

Bad.
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Bona fide, Mala fide, Malo modo, Semper fidelis

malabsorption syndrome - permalink - collapse

All > Medicine > Cancer

A group of symptoms such as gas, bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea resulting from the body's inability to properly absorb nutrients.
National Cancer Institute - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: cramp, dehydration, Diarrhea, Klebsiella, radiation enteritis, retch (RECH), systemic mastocytosis

Mala fide - permalink - collapse

All > Law > Common Legal Terms

With bad faith.
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Bona fide, Mala, Malo modo, Semper fidelis

Malda, Rob - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Search > SEO / Search Marketing

Founder of Slashdot.org, a popular editorially driven technology news forum.
SEO Book - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Brand, Forums, Slashdot, Yahoo! Answers

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Makefile - permalink - collapse

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