megilp
— Noun
– English
～ a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine
megohm
— Noun
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～ a unit of resistance equal to one million ohms
megrim
— Noun
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～ a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men
megrims
— Noun
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～ a state of depression; "he had a bad case of the blues"
Mehemet Ali
— Noun
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～ Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849)
mei
— Noun
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～ Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits
Meibomian cyst
— Noun
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～ a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked
Meibomian gland
— Noun
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～ a long sebaceous gland that lubricates the eyelids; "bacterial infection of a Meibomian gland produces a stye"
meiosis
— Noun
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～ (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
meiosis
— Noun
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～ understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"
meiotic
— Adjective
– English
～ of or relating to meiosis
Meir
— Noun
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～ Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978)
Meissner
— Noun
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～ German anatomist (1829-1905)
Meissner
— Noun
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～ German physicist (1882-1974)
Meister Eckhart
— Noun
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～ German Roman Catholic theologian and mystic (1260-1327)
meitner
— Noun
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～ Swedish physicist (born in Austria) who worked in the field of radiochemistry with Otto Hahn and formulated the concept of nuclear fission with Otto Frisch (1878-1968)
meitnerium
— Noun
– English
～ a radioactive transuranic element
MEK
— Noun
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～ a terrorist organization formed in the 1960s by children of Iranian merchants; sought to counter the Shah of Iran's pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to communism; following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who deposed the Shah
mekong
— Noun
– English
～ an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea