Definitions beginning with M

Materiel Need Engineering Development (US Army term).
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Browse Related Terms: AVCATT, CFE, ENCATT, FSCATT, MCP, PMP

mnemonic filing - permalink - collapse

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A system to classify files using codes or symbols that have an easily remembered relationship to the actual meaning or function (e.g., "LA" for Los Angeles or "FIN" for Finance)
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Browse Related Terms: alphabetic filing system, filing, filing segment, filing unit, random filing, snaking, sort, tickler file

MNLY - permalink - collapse

All > Science > Weather

Mainly
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Browse Related Terms: Frazil Slush, Hanging (ice) dam, Ice Pellets, PTCHY, Sleet, SLO

MNS - permalink - collapse

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Mission Need Statement.
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Browse Related Terms: CORM, Critical Information, Full Mission Capable, MAA, Mission Area Analysis (MAA), Mission Capable (MC), Mission Element, Mission Reliability, MOPP, MUS, NMC, Partial Mission Capable

MNS (Majority Node Set) - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > E-mail > Microsoft Email > Microsoft Exchange > Microsoft Exchange 2007

A type of cluster quorum model in Windows Server 2003. Exchange Server 2007 uses a new type of MNS quorum with file share witness to support failover clusters in different physical locations. [Exchange 2007]
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Browse Related Terms: CCR (cluster continuous replication), cluster-aware, cluster-aware application, cluster continuous replication (CCR) environment, clustered mailbox server, failover, file share witness, Handoff, lossy failover, SCC (single copy cluster), Source, split brain syndrome, standby cluster, target, transport dumpster

MOA - permalink - collapse

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(1) Memorandum of Agreement. (2) Military Operating Area.
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Browse Related Terms: BOA, CEOI, CPAM, OI, OPNAV, OPNAVINST

MOAB - permalink - collapse

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Missile Optimized Anti-Ballistic.
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Browse Related Terms: ABM, Air-breathing, Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM), Anti-Ballistic Missile System, Ballistics, Galosh, National Missile Defense (NMD) System, Sentinel

MOA/U - permalink - collapse

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Memorandum of Agreement/Understanding.
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Browse Related Terms: Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM), .adm, MOA/U, MOU, PDM (I or II), SADM, SNDM

Mob - permalink - collapse

All > Recreation > Games > World of Warcraft

Monster
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MOB" is an old programming acronym of Mobile Object Block. Mobs are all computer controlled characters in the game. You should likely use some other term such as monster, creep, or bad guy.
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Mobile. A computer-controlled character (NPC). Now generally used to mean any computer controlled enemy. This term is singular (Mobs is plural), and is not to be confused with the English word "mob" which means a large disorderly crowd.
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Browse Related Terms: Creep, Creep Jacking, Grinding, Hostile, Kiting, LOS, Pull, Train

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Main Operations Base.
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Browse Related Terms: FOB, Intruder Operation, ROB

mobile-aisle system - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Records Management

Rows of shelving used for compact storage, which travel on tracks and allow one or more aisles to be opened to access the system Also referred to as movable shelving.
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Browse Related Terms: compact shelving, DBMS, movable shelving

mobile branch - permalink - collapse

All > Business > Banking

Mobile branch means any office of a Connecticut bank at which banking business is conducted which is in fact moved or transported to one or more predetermined locations in accordance with a predetermined schedule.
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Browse Related Terms: branch office, securities, branch, bank, branch, credit union, limited branch, share

Mobile Code - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Security

Software programs or parts of programs obtained from remote information systems, transmitted across a network, and executed on a local information system without explicit installation or execution by the recipient.
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Browse Related Terms: Error Detection Code, Exploit Code, Firmware, Port Scanning, remediation, Spyware, System Software, Zombie

Mobile Code Technologies - permalink - collapse

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Software technologies that provide the mechanisms for the production and use of mobile code (e.g., Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, VBScript).
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Browse Related Terms: Active Content, Application Content Filtering, Mobile Software Agent, Multi-Hop Problem, Path Histories, Single-Hop Problem

mobile Earth station - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Telecommunications

An Earth station in the mobile-satellite service intended to be used while in motion or during halts at unspecified points. [NTIA] [RR] 2. An Earth station intended to be used while in motion or during halts at unspecified points. [47CFR]
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Browse Related Terms: aeronautical Earth station, base Earth station, coast Earth station, Earth station, feeder link, land line, land mobile-satellite service, mobile-satellite service, radiotelegram

Mobile Ground Entry Point (MGEP) - permalink - collapse

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The subset of GEPs, which are transportable. GEPs provide the communications interfaces between the SDS space orbital/sub-orbital elements and the C2E.
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Browse Related Terms: Fixed Ground Entry Point (FGEP), Ground Entry Point (GEP)

Mobile home - permalink - collapse

All > Business > Real Estate

A housing unit manufactured in a factory and designed to be transported to a site. This category can include large homes that are not truly mobile but are constructed in the same manner as mobile homes, as opposed to conventional on-site construction.
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Browse Related Terms: Building Code, Manufactured home, Manufactured Housing, Variance

mobile-satellite service - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Telecommunications

A radiocommunication service:
- between mobile earth stations and one or more space stations, or between space stations used by this service; or
- between mobile earth stations by means of one or more space stations. This service may also include feeder links necessary for its operation. [NTIA] [RR] [47CFR]
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Browse Related Terms: aeronautical Earth station, base Earth station, coast Earth station, Earth station, feeder link, land line, land mobile-satellite service, mobile Earth station, radiotelegram