| mkt. |
abbreviation of "market." |
| ml |
abbreviation of "milliliter," or "milliliters," a unit of capacity equal to one thousandth of a liter or 0.338 fluid ounce. |
| Mlle. |
abbreviation of "Mademoiselle," an unmarried woman, addressed courteously. |
| mm |
abbreviation of "millimeter," or "millimeters," a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter or 0.03937 inch. |
| Mme. |
abbreviation of "Madame," a married woman, addressed formally or courteously. |
| Mn |
symbol of the chemical element manganese. |
| MN |
abbreviation of "Minnesota," a Midwestern U.S. state on the Canadian border between Wisconsin and the Dakotas. |
| mnemonic |
pertaining to or designed to aid the memory. [2 definitions] |
| mnemonics |
(used with a sing. verb) a process, system, or technique used to aid and improve the memory. |
| Mnemosyne |
in Greek mythology, the goddess personifying memory, and mother of the Muses. |
| -mo |
used after numerals in describing sizes of books, pamphlets, or the like, according to the number of leaves obtained by folding a single sheet of paper. |
| Mo |
symbol of the chemical element molybdenum. |
| MO |
abbreviation of "Missouri," a Midwestern U.S. state between Kansas and Illinois. |
| M.O. |
abbreviation of "modus operandi" (Latin); method of operating. |
| mo. |
abbreviation of "month." |
| moa |
an extinct, flightless, long-necked bird native to New Zealand. |
| Moab Isolation Center |
a special U.S. internment camp located near Moab, Utah, occupied in 1943 by Japanese-Americans who had been deemed to be "trouble-makers" during their previous internment at ordinary camps created for the holding of Japanese citizens during World War II. The conditions at the Moab Isolation Center were harsher than at other camps. At its peak, there were about fifty people being held there. |
| moan |
a long, low, mournful outcry expressing pain, grief, or sorrow. [7 definitions] |
| moat |
a deep trench dug for defense around a castle, fort, medieval town, or the like, and usu. filled with water. |
| mob |
a large, disorderly, or riotous crowd of people. [8 definitions] |
| mobcap |
a large, high, frilly cap worn indoors by women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |