ExpertGlossary terms starting with M

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Management activities Planned activities initiated by land managers to meet the desired future condition for an area.
Management area Management areas are specific geographical areas defined by a forest plan. Each management area has a set of objectives and a management prescription…
management company The business entity that establishes, promotes and manages a fund or funds.
Management Console Allows clients to access and manage AWS through a user-friendly interface. With this console, users can see all AWS services in one place, manage their…
Management Controls The security controls (i.e., safeguards or countermeasures) for an information system that focus on the management of risk and the management of…
management domain A collection of one or more management systems, and zero or more managed systems and management subdomains, that is administered by a single organization.
management expense fee The sum paid to the investment company's advisor or manager for supervising its portfolio and administering its operations.
management expense ratio A measure of the total cost of operating a fund as a percentage of average total assets.
Management fee A management fee is the percentage of your account value that an investment company or manager charges to handle your account.
management folder A folder that contains the tools for managing document profiles, search resources, and workspace settings.
Management indicator species Species selected as ecological indicators. The welfare of a management indicator species is presumed to be an indicator of the welfare of other species…
Management Information Base (MIB) ASCII files that describe the information that the SNMP agent sends to network management stations.
management information system (MIS) An organized assembly of resources and procedures required to collect, process, and distribute data for use in decision making.
management inhibit A procedure used in signaling traffic management to keep a signaling link unavailable to user-part-generated signaling traffic except for test and…
management of farm animal genetic resources The sum total of technical, policy and logistical operations involved in understanding (characterization), using and developing (utilization), maintaining…
Management plan A plan guiding overall management of an area administered by a federal or state agency.
management system An application process within a management domain that affects monitoring and control functions on managed objects, management subdomains, or both.
Management/Managing Agency or Authority The federal, state, commonwealth, territorial, local, or tribal entity or entities with legal authority to designate, promulgate regulations for, and/or…
manager access The highest level that can be assigned in an IBM® Lotus® Notes® access control list.
managing system Synonym management system.
Manchester code A code in which (a) data and clock signals are combined to form a single self-synchronizing data stream, (b) each encoded bit contains a transition at the…
Mandamus Writ issued by a superior court to an inferior tribunal to enforce the performance of a public duty.
Mandated benefit A requirement in state or federal law that all health insurance policies provide coverage for a specific health care service.
Mandated Health Benefit Mandated health benefits are benefits that are required to be covered by law. There are both federal and state mandated benefits.
Mandatory Access Control A means of restricting access to objects based on the sensitivity (as represented by a label) of the information contained in the objects and the formal…
mandatory access control (MAC) 1. Access control based on access rights granted by the System Security Officer [CESG].
Mandatory Delivery Commitment An agreement that a lender will deliver loans or securities by a certain date at agreed-upon terms.
mandatory fixed part Part of a message that contains those parameters that are mandatory and of fixed length for a particular message type. [T1.110-1987]
Mandatory Integrity Control A security feature that requires a process to have an integrity level equal to or higher than the integrity level of an object in order to obtain some…
Mandatory minimum sentence A statutorily defined minimum term of imprisonment that the court is required to impose on a defendant at sentencing.
Mandatory Purchase Under the provisions of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, individuals, businesses, and others buying, building, or improving property located in…
mandatory spending Spending (budget authority and outlays) controlled by laws other than annual appropriations acts.
Mandatory Topography The format and information required to be displayed on a PIV card. Also known as the Standard Topography.
mandatory variable part Part of a message that contains mandatory parameters of variable length. [T1.110-1987]
mandrel wrapping In multimode fiber optics, a technique used to modify the modal distribution of a propagating optical signal.
Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle (MARV) A reentry vehicle capable of performing preplanned flight maneuvers during the reentry phase.
Maniac A player who does a lot of hyper-aggressive raising, betting, and bluffing. A true maniac is not a good player, but is simply doing a lot of gambling.
manifest An XML document that describes requirements for an application. The application manifest can be a separate file or embedded in the application's .exe file.
manifest file A file held in a Java Archive (JAR) file, detailing the contents of the archive.
Manifold (Header) A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected.
manipulation detection 1. A procedure that is used to detect whether data have been modified either accidentally or intentionally. Synonym modification detection. [2382-pt. 8] 2.
manipulation detection code (MDC) In cryptosystems, a bit string that is a function of data to which it is attached for the purpose of manipulation detection.
mannan The polymer of mannose with a repeating unit of C6H10O5. Can be hydrolyzed to mannose. (Source: Voet, D.; Voet, J. G. Biochemistry.
Manner of death death occurs in one of four manners: natural, if caused solely by disease; accidental, if it occurs without apparent intent; suicide, if caused by the…
Manning's roughness coefficient (n) A coefficient used to describe the relative roughness of a channel and overbank areas; used in hydraulic computations.
mannitol (MA-nih-TOL) A drug used to decrease swelling of the brain and to treat kidney failure.
mannose A hexose component of many polysaccharides, occasionally used as a carbohydrate source in plant tissue culture media.
Mano A stone with a flat side that was primarily held in one's hand or hands and used to grind edible substances, typically corn, grains, and nut meats.
Manometer An instrument for measuring pressure.
manpage A "page" from the manuals, typically accessed via the man(1) command. A manpage contains a SYNOPSIS, a DESCRIPTION, a list of BUGS, and so on, and is…
MANPER Manpower and Personnel ILS term).
Manpower Authorizations The billets in the manpower requirements structure that are planned to be filled.
Manpower Estimate Report (MER) An estimate of the number of personnel who will operate, maintain, support, and train for the acquisition upon full operational deployment.
Manpower, Personnel, Training, and Safety (MPTS) The human dimension of the complete defense weapon system. The term MPTS also encompasses the concepts and disciplines of human factors engineering and…
Manpower, Personnel, Training, and Safety (MPTS) Profiles A description of human dimensions and constraints involving a major system throughout the system life cycle.
MANPRINT Manpower and Personnel Integration (US Army).
Manque French term for Low Bet.
Mansard A roof having a double slope on all four sides, the lower slope being much steeper.
MANTECH Manufacturing Technology.
Mantle The main bulk of the Earth, between the crust and core, ranging from depths of about 40 to 3,480 kilometers.
mantle cell lymphoma (MAN-tul sel lim-FOH-muh) An aggressive (fast-growing) type of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma that usually occurs in middle-aged or older adults.
mantle field (MAN-tul) The area of the neck, chest, and lymph nodes in the armpit that are exposed to radiation.
Mantle hot spot A region of continental or oceanic crust below which a mantle plume causes melting of the overlying crust, resulting in a broad regional topographic swell…
manual failover Failover requiring human intervention to start an application or service on another node.
Manual J The standard method for calculating residential cooling loads developed by the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) and the Air Conditioning…
Manual Key Transport A non-electronic means of transporting cryptographic keys by physically moving a device, document or person containing or possessing the key or a key…
Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) A document that contains a description of the practices and procedures of the USPTO.
manual remote rekeying [A] procedure by which a distant crypto-equipment is rekeyed electrically, with specific actions required by the receiving terminal operator. [INFOSEC-99]
Manual Review All major search engines combine a manual review process with their automated relevancy algorithms to help catch search spam and train their relevancy…
Manual submitting Submitting by hand to an individual search engine, rather than using an automated submission tool or service.
Manuals. See publications.
Manufacture One of the classes of patentable subject matter under U.S. law. MPEP 2105.
Manufactured (Mobile) Home A structure, built on a permanent chassis, transported to a site in one or more sections, and affixed to a permanent foundation.
Manufactured home Manufactured homes are homes made or manufactured in a factory and designed to be transported to a site.
Manufactured Housing Homes that are built entirely in a factory in accordance with a federal building code administered by the U.S.
Manufacturing (or Production) Engineering Pre-production planning and operation analysis applied to specific product designs.
Manufacturing Operations, Development, and Integration Laboratory (MODIL) An SDS-peculiar integration mechanism to link product technology development concurrently with manufacturing process and control development for a…
Manufacturing Technology (MANTECH) Manufacturing technology refers to any action which has as its objective the timely establishment or improvement of the manufacturing processes…
Manure Dung and urine of animals that can be used as a form of organic fertilizer. See fertilizer, organic fertilizer.
many-to-one relate A relate in which many records in one table are related to a single record in another table.
MAO inhibitor (... in-HIH-bih-ter) A type of drug used to treat depression. It stops the breakdown of certain chemicals in the brain that help improve a person's mood.
MAOC Modular Air Operations Center (JFACC term).
MAOPR Minimum Acceptable Operational Performance Requirements.
MAP 1. verb: to determine the relative positions of loci (genes or DNA sequences) on a chromosome.
MAP (Mean Areal Precipitation) The average rainfall over a given area, generally expressed as an average depth over the area.
map distance The standard measure of genetic distance between loci, expressed in centiMorgans (cM) or map units .
map extent The rectangular limits (xmin,ymin and xmax,ymax) of the area of the Earth's surface displayed using ARC/INFO.
map library An organized, uniformly defined collection of spatial data partitioned by layers and tiles into component parts called map sections.
map limits The rectangular area on the graphics page in which geographic features are displayed.
map projection A mathematical model that transforms the locations of features on the Earth's surface to locations on a two-dimensional surface.
map query The process of selecting information from a GIS by asking spatial or logical questions of the geographic data.
map scale The reduction needed to display a representation of the Earth's surface on a map.
map section The unit of data storage in a map library. A map section is the data for one layer in one tile of a map library.
map unit One centiMorgan (1 cM) See: map distance; crossing-over unit.
map units The coordinate units in which a geographic data set (e.g., a coverage) is stored in ARC/INFO.
map-to-page transformation The process of positioning and scaling a map on a graphic page. It controls how coverage coordinates are transformed into graphics on the display screen…
MAPI (Mail Application Program Interface) A Windows software standard that has become a popular email interface used by MS Exchange, GroupWise, and other email packages.
MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) The API that is used by Microsoft messaging applications such as Outlook to access collaboration data.
MAPI Mail Near-Line Documents stored on optical discs or compact discs that are housed in the jukebox or CD changer and can be retrieved without human intervention.
MAPI profiles The set of MAPI configuration settings, stored in the registry, that enable MAPI clients, such as Microsoft Outlook(r), to connect to various messaging…