Glossary
Terms starting with M
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- MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
- Locally collected garbage, which can be processed and burned to produce energy.
- MUNICIPAL UTILITY
- A provider of utility services owned and operated by a municipal government.
- MUNICIPALIZATION
- The process by which a municipal entity assumes responsibility for supplying utility service to its constituents. In supplying electricity, the municipality may generate and distribute the power or purchase wholesale power from other generators and…
- Muon (u)
- The second flavor of charged leptons (in order of increasing mass), with electric charge -1.
- Muon Chamber
- The outer layers of a particle detector capable of registering tracks of charged particles. Except for the chargeless neutrinos, only muons reach this layer from the collision point.
- music
- Broadly speaking, sounds organized to express a wide variety of human emotions.
- music drama
- Wagner's designation for his operas. musicology The scholarly study of music and its historical contexts.
- musical theater
- (musical) A hybrid form of twentieth-century American musical entertainment that incorporates elements of vaudeville, operetta, jazz, and popular song.
- musique concrete
- Natural sounds that have been recorded electronically.
- Mustard
- A condiment made from the seeds of the mustard plant, of which there are three varieties: black mustard (spicy and piquant), brown mustard (less piquant), and white or yellow mustard (much less piquant but more pungent). The familiar hot taste of mustard is…
- mutability
- The ability to change.
- mutagen
- An agent that is capable of increasing the mutation rate .
- mutant
- An organism or cell carrying a mutation. An alternative phenotype to the wild-type; the phenotype produced by a non-wildtype allele.
- mutant allele
- An allele differing from the allele found in the standard or wild type organism.
- mutant screening
- The process of screening for mutations showing abnormalities in a certain structure or in a particular function, as a preparation for genetic analysis of that strucutre or function.
- mutant site
- The damaged or altered area within a mutated gene.
- mutation
- (1) The process producing a gene or a chromosome differing from the wild-type. (2) The gene or chromosome that results from such a process.
- mutation breeding
- Use of mutagens to develop variants that can increase agricultural yield.
- mutation event
- The actual occurrence of a mutation in time and space.
- mutation frequency
- The frequency of mutations in a population.
- mutation rate
- The number of mutation events per gene per unit of time (for example, per cell generation). The proportion of mutations per cell division in bacteria or single-celled organisms or the proportion of mutations per gamete in higher organisms.
- mutational dissection
- The study of the components of a biological system through a study of mutations affecting that system.
- mutational load
- Genetic load caused by mutation.
- mutator mutation
- mutation of DNA polymerase that increases the overall mutation rate.
- mute
- A mechanical device used with string and brass instruments to muffle the tone.
- muton
- A term coined by Benzer for the smallest mutable site within a cistron. The smallest part of a gene that can be involved in a mutation event; now known to be a single nucleotide pair.
- MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANY
- An organizational structure that provides mutual companies with the organizational and capital raising advantages of stock insurers, while retaining the policyholder ownership of the mutual.
- MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
- A company owned by its policyholders that returns part of its profits to the policyholders as dividends. The insurer uses the rest as a surplus cushion in case of large and unexpected losses.
- myeloma
- A cancer of the bone marrow.
- MySQL
- Most popular open-source relational database. Many Unix-based plans allow MySQL databases. Here is MySQL home page.