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MicroSystems International Microsystems International Limited (MIL) was a telecommunications company based in Ottawa, founded in 1969. MIL was an early attempt to create a merchant semiconductor house by Nortel Networks (then Northern Electric).
Microtargeting Microtargeting (sometimes called narrowcasting) is a method used by United States Republican and Democratic political parties and candidates to track individual voters and identify potential supporters. They then use various means of communication -- direct mail, phone calls, home visits, television, radio, web advertising, email, text messaging, etc -- to communicate with voters, crafting messages to build support for fundraising, campaign events, volunteering, and eventually to turn them out to the polls on election day.
Microteaching Microteaching is a teaching method whereby the teacher reviews a videotape of the lesson after each session, in order to conduct a "post-mortem". Teachers find out what has worked, which aspects have fallen short, and what needs to be done to enhance their teaching technique.
Microthread Microthreads are small code fragments that can be run concurrently to gain increased performance in microprocessors. They provide an execution model that uses a few additional instructions in a conventional processor to break code down into fragments that execute simultaneously.
Microtiter plate A Microtiter plate or microplate is a flat plate with multiple "wells" used as small test tubes. The microplate has become a standard tool in analytical research and clinical diagnostic testing laboratories.
Microtome A microtome is a mechanical instrument used to cut biological specimens into very thin segments for microscopic examination. Most microtomes use a steel blade and are used to prepare sections of animal or plant tissues for histology.
Microtubule [are protein] structures found within [[cell (biology)|cells, one of the components of the cytoskeleton. They have diameter of ~ 24 nm and length varying from several micrometers to possibly millimeters in axons of nerve cells.
Microtubule organizing center The MTOC or microtubule-organizing center is a structure found in all plant and animal cells from which microtubules radiate. The two most important types of MTOCs are the basal bodies associated with cilia and certain intercellular junctions in epithelial cells, and the centrosome associated with animal cells-center.
Microtune MT2060 The Microtune MT2060 is a single chip silicon tuner capable of receiving analogue and terrestrial TV. It is commonly used in USB digital TV receivers for PC and Mac due to its small size and power consumption.
Microtuner Microtuner is an electronic device or audio software endowed with microtuning capabilities specifically designed and used to modify the tuning of musical instruments (in particular synthesizers), hence allowing for microtonal scales, just intonation scales and tunings other than the twelve-tone equal temperament to be played (microtonal tuner). The term also indicates a high-precision mechanical tuning device found on some vintage Conn brand brass and reed instruments (mostly cornets and alto saxophones) first introduced with their 1918 catalog and manufactured up until about 1954, and on some vintage saxophones manufactured in Europe by Beaugnier, Dolnet, HĂĽller, Keilwerth and other famous makers in the same period.
Microvasculature remodeling Microvasculature remodeling refers to the alterations in a blood vessel network resulting from arteriogenesis and angiogenesis. Briefly, arteriogenesis is an increase in arterial diameter while angiogenesis is an increase in the number of capillaries either by sprouting from or splitting existing capillaries.
Microvenator Microvenator (meaning "tiny hunter") was a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Cloverly Formation in what is now present-day Montana. Microvenator was the most primitive known oviraptorid theropod.
Microwave Microwaves are electromagnetic waves with wavelengths longer than those of terahertz (THz) wavelengths, but relatively short for radio waves. Microwaves have wavelengths approximately in the range of 30 cm (frequency = 1 GHz) to 1 mm (300 GHz).
Microwave auditory effect The microwave auditory effect, also known as the microwave hearing effect or the Frey effect, consists of audible clicks induced by pulsed/modulated microwave frequencies that are generated directly inside the human head without the need of any receiving electronic device. The effect was first reported by persons working in the vicinity of radar transponders during World War II.
Microwave landing system The Microwave Landing System (MLS) is an all-weather, precision landing system originally intended to replace or supplement the Instrument Landing System (ILS). MLS has a number of operational advantages, including a wide selection of channels to avoid interference with other nearby airports, excellent performance in all weather, and a small "footprint" at the airports.
Microwave link A microwave link is a transmission device which allows video / audio / data to be sent using radio waves between two locations from just a few feet to several miles apart. It is commonly used by television broadcasters to transmit a programme across the country.
Microwave Limb Sounder A Microwave Limb Sounder measures (naturally-occurring) microwave thermal emission from the limb (edge) of Earth's upper atmosphere. The data is used to create vertical profiles of atmospheric gases, temperature, pressure, and cloud ice.
Microwave oven A microwave oven, or microwave, is a kitchen appliance employing microwave radiation primarily to cook or heat food. Microwave ovens have revolutionized food preparation since their use became widespread in the 1970s.
Microwave power transmission Microwave power transmission (MPT) is the use of microwaves to transmit power through outer space or the atmosphere without the need for wires. Following World War II, which saw the development of high-power microwave emitters known as cavity magnetrons, the idea of using microwaves to transmit power was researched.
Microwave radio relay Microwave radio relay is a technology for transmitting digital and analog signals, such as long-distance telephone calls and the relay of television programs to transmitters, between two locations on a line of sight radio path. In microwave radio relay, radio waves are transmitted between the two locations with directional antennas, forming a fixed radio connection between the two points.
Microwave radiometer The Microwave Radiometer (MWR) is a radiometer that measures energy emitted by the atmosphere at very low energy levels (wavelengths much longer than red light also known as microwaves). By understanding the physical processes associated with energy emission at these wavelengths, scientists can calculate a variety of atmospheric parameters from these measurements, including temperature, pressure, the total amount of water vapor and the total amount of liquid water in the atmospheric column directly above the instrument.
Microwave Scanning Beam Landing System The Microwave Scanning Beam Landing System (MSBLS) is a Ku band approach and landing navigation aid used by NASA's space shuttle. It provides precise elevation, directional and distance data which is used to guide the orbiter for the last two minutes of flight until touchdown.
Microwave transmission Microwave transmission refers to the technique of transmitting information over a Microwave link. Since microwaves are highly susceptible to attenuation by the atmosphere (especially during wet weather), the use of microwave transmission is limited to a few contexts.
Micrurus tener The Texas Coral Snake (Micrurus tener) is a species of venomous coral snake, an elapid snake found in the southern United States, primarily in Texas, but it also ranges northeast into neighboring states of Louisiana and Arkansas, and south into Mexico in the states of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Querétaro to Morelos.
Mictlantecuhtli Mictlantecuhtli ("lord of Mictlan"), in Aztec mythology, was a god of the dead and King of Mictlan (Chicunauhmictlan), the lowest and northernmost section of the underworld. He was one of the principal gods of the Aztecs and was the most prominent of several gods and goddesses of death and the underworld (see also Chalmecatl).
Mictlantecuhtli (Los Comex) Mictlantecuhtli is a comic book character from the independent comic book El Muerto, created by Javier Hernandez and published by his company Los Comex. The character is based on the god of death from Aztec mythology.
MiCorps MiCorps, the Michigan Clean Water Corps, is a network of volunteer water monitoring programs in Michigan. It was created through an executive order by Governor Jennifer Granholm to assist the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in collecting and sharing water quality data for use in water resources management and protection programs.
Mid and West Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region) Mid and West Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the Assembly for Wales was created.
Mid atlantic skateboard series The Mid-Atlantic Skateboard Series is a skateboarding competition series started by former pro skateboarder Curt Kimbel. The series has been running every summer since 2003 and usually runs from July until late August.
Mid America Motorplex Mid America Motorplex is a Alan Wilson designed road circuit close to Council Bluffs/Omaha in Pacific Junction Iowa. It's a relatively safe track for people to learn to drive their cars at High Performance Driving Events.
Mid American Buzzards The Mid American Buzzards are an EIFL team based in Illinois. They will begin play in the 2007 season, as a member of the Eastern Indoor Football League, which is not affilitated with the Arena Football League or Af2.
Mid And West Wales Conservative Future The Mid and West Wales Conservative Future (M&WWCF) is the youth wing of the Conservative & Unionist Party of Great Britain with responsibility for organising the activities of party members under 30 years of age in the eponymous Welsh electoral region.
Mid Atlantic Terascale Partnership The Mid Atlantic Terascale Partnership (MATP) is a consortium cofounded by the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech to facilitate access to the National LambdaRail in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. MATP members have NLR member network access rights through a license granted by the Virginia Tech Foundation.
Mid Bus Mid Bus specializes in manufacturing customized school bus in Bluffton, Ohio. Formed in 1981 by former employees of Superior Coach Company in Lima, Ohio, it grew from a dozen employees to become one of the country's largest manufacturers of smaller school buses.
Mid Glamorganshire (UK Parliament constituency) Mid Glamorganshire was a parliamentary constituency in Glamorganshire, South Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Mid Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency) Mid Cheshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created upon the abolition of North Cheshire and South Cheshire in 1868 and the redivision of Cheshire into Mid Cheshire, East Cheshire, and West Cheshire.
Mid Night Club The Mid Night Club is a Japanese street racing gang that hosted illegal races on the Bayshore Route (known natively as the Wangan) of the Shuto Expressway between Tokyo to Yokohama, the gang became one of the most notorious and one of the highly respected clubs of its type, which led to it being featured in over 200 editorial features in most of the leading Japanese auto magazines and even Denmark's Autoviz, Max Power in the UK and the US Turbo magazine which gave street racing in Japan a worldwide notoriety. The club was regarded as one of the longest running street racing gangs.
Mid North The Mid North is a region of South Australia, north of the Adelaide Plains, but not as far north as the Far North, or outback. It is generally accepted to extend from Spencer Gulf east to the Barrier Highway, including the coastal plain, the southern part of the Flinders Ranges, and the northern part of the Mount Lofty Ranges.
Mid North Coast, New South Wales The Mid North Coast is a country region in the north east of the state of New South Wales, Australia. The region covers the mid to north coast of NSW, beginning at Seal Rocks, 275 km north of Sydney, and extending as far north as Woolgoolga, 562 km north of Sydney, a distance of roughly 400 km (300 miles).
Mid Oxfordshire (UK Parliament constituency) Mid Oxfordshire was a parliamentary constituency in Oxfordshire. Unusually it had a strict official name of Mid-Oxon, but no doubt the use of the county name in full instead of its abbrieviation was the normal way of referring to the constituency.
Mid Scotland and Fife (Scottish Parliament electoral region) Mid Scotland and Fife is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs).
Mid Somerset League The Mid Somerset League (currently sponsored by Trophies of Radstock) is a football competition based in England. This league has a total of four divisions, of which the highest, the Premier Division, sits at level 14 of the English football league system.
Mid Ulster by-election, 1955 The by-election held in Mid Ulster on August 11 1955 was called as a result of a vote in the British parliament on July 18, 1955 which voted 197 votes to 63 to nullify the result of the previous 1955 UK General Election in the constituency. At that election, Sinn FĂ©in candidate Tom Mitchell took the seat.
Mid Ulster by-election, 1956 The by-election held in Mid Ulster on May 8 1956 was called as a result of a vote in the British parliament on 7 February 1956 which voted to disqualify the sitting MP, Charles Beattie, who himself had been awarded the seat after the candidate who won the seat at a previous by-election, Tom Mitchell, was disqualified from assuming office on the basis that he was a convicted felon.
Mid Ulster English Mid Ulster English is the dialect of most people in the traditional province of Ulster in Ireland, including those in the two main cities. It represents a cross-over area between Ulster Scots and Hiberno-English.
Mid Wales Mid Wales is the name given to the area of Wales between North Wales and South Wales. It borders England via the Welsh Marches to the east and the Irish Sea via Cardigan Bay to the west (West Wales is to the south-west).
Mid Wales Constabulary The Mid-Wales Constabulary was a police force in the United Kingdom between 1948 and 1968. It was created on 1 April 1948 as an amalgamation of the forces of Brecknockshire, Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire under sections 3 and 4 of the Police Act 1946.
Mid West Business Institute The Mid West Business Institute (MWBI) was founded in 1988 and situated in Limerick, Ireland and is an independent third level business and technology college. In September 2006 Griffith College Limerick was founded with the aquisiton of the Mid West Business Institute by Griffith College.
Mid-air collision A mid-air collision (MAC) is an aviation accident where two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight. Due to the high velocities involved in modern aviation, this usually results in very severe damage (if not total destruction) of all aircraft involved.
Mid-air retrieval Mid-air retrieval is a technique used in atmospheric reentry when the reentering vehicle is incapable of a satisfactory unassisted landing. The vehicle is slowed by means of parachutes, and then a specially-equipped aircraft matches the vehicle's trajectory and catches it in mid-air.
Mid-Air Crash (TV) Mid-Air Crash was a film made for the US TV produced in 1975. Although another one of these airport disaster style movies rather popular in the middle of the 70s, it concentrates very realistically on the stress involved in Air Traffic Control.
Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary prepares students for vocational ministry. It provides associate, masters and doctorate theological degrees, and is accredited by The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern United States (in the states of Kansas and Missouri). The conference was formerly known as the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association, but changed its name when it expanded into Kansas.
Mid-America League The Mid-America League was based in Lafayette, Indiana, and was an independent baseball league located entirely within Indiana. It operated in only four cities which were not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either.
Mid-America Reformed Seminary Mid-America Reformed Seminary is a graduate level theological institution located in Dyer, Indiana offering a biblical and theological education in the classic Reformed (Calvinistic) tradition. The seminary offers a three year Master of Divinity degree program for students seeking ordination.
Mid-America Regional Council The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) serves as the Council of Governments (COG)and the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the bistate Kansas City region. MARC encourages cooperation and collaboration on issues that extend beyond the jurisdiction of a single city, county or state.
Mid-American Conference The Mid-American Conference is a College Athletic Conference whose members are located mainly in the Midwestern United States; nine of the schools are in Ohio and Michigan alone. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I-A.
Mid-American Review [Review is an international literary journal dedicated to publishing the best contemporary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translations. Founded in 1981, MAR is an official publication of the Department of English and the College of Arts & Sciences at Bowling Green State University.
Mid-American Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists The Mid-American Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It covers the area of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and San Juan County in New Mexico.
Mid-Annandale F.C. Mid-Annandale Football Club are a football (soccer) club from the town of Lockerbie in the Dumfries and Galloway area of Scotland. Nicknamed the Mids, the club joined the South of Scotland Football League in 2003, having previously played in a local amateur football league.
Mid-Antrim Museums Service The Mid-Antrim Museums Service is a local history museum service in Antrim in Northern Ireland. It is comprised offour local museums Ballymena, Carrickfergus, Larne and Newtownabbey that are dedicated to presenting and preserving art and history of Mid-Antrim.
Mid-Atlantic District The Mid-Atlantic District is one of the 16 geographical districts of the Barbershop Harmony Society, an all-male North American singing fraternity. It is composed of male barbershop singers living in the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.
Mid-Atlantic English Mid-Atlantic English describes a version of the English language which is neither predominantly American or British in usage. It is also used to describe various forms of North American speech that have assimilated some British pronunciations.
Mid-Atlantic Pagan Alliance The Mid-Atlantic Pagan Alliance (MPA), founded in June of 1999 by Robin Albright and Marc Wicoff, is primarily a social organization, dedicated to bringing people of alternative religious paths together in social settings; with an emphasis on the Pagan/Witch/Wiccan/Druid subcultures. By doing so the MPA helps to cultivate the Pagan community, and create a camaraderie feeling between itself and other local covens, groves and solitary practitioners.
Mid-Atlantic Prep League The Mid-Atlantic Prep League, also known as the MAPL, is a sports league with participating institutions from prep schools in the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania area in the United States. The league is comprised of schools known for their academic rigor, but the quality of play in all sports is fairly high.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mostly underwater mountain range of the Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean that runs from 87°N (about 333 km South of the North Pole) to subantarctic Bouvet Island at 54°S. The highest peaks of this mountain range extend above the water mark, to form islands.
Mid-Atlantic Sports Network Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) is a joint network that broadcasts both Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals games in the Washington/Baltimore area. When the Montreal Expos were relocated to Washington, D.
Mid-Atlantic United States flood of 2006 The Mid-Atlantic United States flood of 2006 was a significant flood that affected much of the Mid-Atlantic region of the eastern United States. The flooding was very widespread, affecting numerous rivers, lakes and communities from upstate New York to North Carolina.
Mid-Autumn Festival The Mid-Autumn Festival (; Taiwanese: Tiong Chhiu; Cantonese: dzong1 tsau1; Korean: Ch'usǒk; Japanese: Tsukimi 月見/つきみ; Vietnamese Tết Trung Thu. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival, similar in name to a different festival which falls on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year).
Mid-continent Oil Field The Mid-continent Oil Field in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, was discovered and exploited during the first half of the 20th century. It is not a single oil field, but rather a broad area containing hundreds of fields in various geological strata and diverse trap types.
Mid-continent public library Mid-Continent Public Library is a political subdivision of the state of [[Missouri]. It is a consolidated library district, originally founded in 1965, and now consists of 30 branches in greater Kansas City, Missouri.
Mid-Canada Line The Mid-Canada Line, also known as the McGill Fence, was a line of radar stations across the "middle" of Canada to provide early warning of a Soviet bomber attack on North America. It was built to supplement the less-advanced Pinetree Line, which was located further south.
Mid-Carolina Council of Governments The Mid-Carolina Council of Governments is one of the 17 regional North Carolina Councils of Governments (Region M) established by the North Carolina General Assembly for the purpose of regional planning and administration. Headquartered in Fayetteville, North Carolina, it serves Harnett, Cumberland, and Sampson counties.
Mid-Century modern Mid-Century modern is a design term applied most frequently to residential (and some commercial) architecture, interior design and furniture. Related to the Space Age, the International style and Googie, mid-century modern translated the ideology of Modernism into a sleek, cool, yet accessible lifestyle.
Mid-Cities The Dallas-Fort Worth Mid-Cities are the communities that surround the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, filling the four-mile span between Dallas and Fort Worth. These communities form the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and include the cities of Arlington, Irving, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Colleyville, HEB (Hurst, Euless and Bedford), NRH (North Richland Hills and Richland Hills), Haltom City, Watauga, and Keller and together represent more people than either Dallas or Fort Worth.
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network (Mid-City CAN) Mid-City CAN is a community collaborative of over 150 agencies, community residents, parents, youth, businesses, schools, and religious institutions serving the San Diego, California neighborhoods of City Heights, Normal Heights, Oak Park, Darnall, Rolando, College Area, Kensington and Talmadge.
Mid-City Transitway The Mid-City Transitway is a concept for the use of the right of way formerly proposed for the Crosstown Expressway in Chicago, Illinois. The uses being studied include a bus-only rapid-transit road (similar to a two-lane road running from McCormick Place north to the Loop), a truck-only bypass around the city center, or a rail rapid transit system.
Mid-City West Mid-City West is a subregion located in the Wilshire area of the City of Los Angeles, California. While it may be confused with the Mid-Wilshire area, the city designates it as a separate area, encompassing the area south of Santa Monica Blvd, west of Fairfax Avenue, and north of Pico or Venice Blvd and east of La Cienega Blvd.
Mid-Continent Conference The Mid-Continent Conference (Mid-Con) is an NCAA Division I college athletic conference which operates primarily in the Midwestern United States, with outlying teams in Louisiana and Utah. The conference is in the process of acquiring and administering the Great West Football Conference, of which one current and two future members are affiliated.
Mid-East Commission The Mid-East Commission is one of the 17 regional North Carolina Councils of Governments ("Region Q") established by the North Carolina General Assembly for the purpose of regional planning and administration. Headquartered in Washington, it serves Hertford, Bertie, Martin, Pitt, and Beaufort counties.
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference which consists of historically black colleges in the southeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I-AA for football and is Division I for all other sports.
Mid-Essex League The Mid-Essex League is a football competition based in England. The top division of this league, the Mid-Essex League Premier Division, sits at level 13 of the English football league system and is a feeder to the Essex Olympian Football League.
Mid-Herts Football League The Mid-Herts Football League was a football competition based in England. It had two divisions including the Mid-Hertfordshire League Premier Division, which sat at level 13 of the English football league system.
Mid-Hudson Library System Since 1959, the Mid-Hudson Library System (MHLS) has acted to ensure the public's right to free access, facilitate economical resource sharing, and promote professional library services while working in partnerships with the independent public and free association libraries in the Hudson Valley of New York State in the USA.
Mid-Indiana Conference (MIC) The Mid-Indiana Conference, or MIC, is a high school athletic conference which is located in northcentral Indiana, USA. This conference serves many high schools located in Cass County, Indiana, Hamilton County, Indiana; Howard County, Indiana; and Miami County, Indiana.
Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) a first year Engineering Research Center (ERC) funded by the National Science Foundation launched on May 1st, 2006 as part of their larger program of ERCs. It will be largely based at Princeton University with initial funding of $15 million in its first year with an addition $40 million alloted over the next 10 years.
Mid-Kent Railway The Mid-Kent Line is the successor to railways built by the Mid Kent Railway between 1857 and 1882. The railway was originally planned to carry traffic through mid Kent, but because other railways were being built at the time (notably the line constructed by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway via Penge East), the scheme did not materialise.
Mid-level eye feature A mid-level eye feature is an eye-like structure often found in intensifying tropical cyclones. Like an "eye" in hurricanes or typhoons, it is a circular area at the circulation center of the storm in which convection is absent.
Mid-life crisis A mid-life crisis is an emotional state of doubt and anxiety in which a person becomes uncomfortable with the realization that life is halfway over. It commonly involves reflection on what the individual has done with his or her life up to that point, often with feelings that not enough was accomplished.
Mid-major Mid-major is a term mainly used in American college basketball and, to a lesser extent, college football, to describe schools not affiliated with a Bowl Championship Series (BCS) conference. Though not always the case in the past, the term today has basically the same meaning in basketball that it has in football.
Mid-Missouri Mavericks The Mid-Missouri Mavericks are a minor league baseball team which plays in Columbia, Missouri, in the United States. The team is a member of the Independent Frontier League, and has no association with a Major League Baseball team.
Mid-nineteenth century Spain Spain in the mid-nineteenth century was a country in turmoil. Occupied by Napoleon from 1808 to 1814, a brutal "war of independence" was waged against the occupiers that led to an emergent Spanish nationalism.
Mid-November 2005 Tornado Outbreak The Mid-November 2005 outbreak was an unusually strong (for the season) tornado outbreak on November 15, 2005 in the central United States. It occurred along a cold front separating warm, humid air from the southeast from cold Arctic air to the north and northwest.
Mid-November 2006 Tornado Outbreak The November 2006 Tornado Outbreak was a significant tornado outbreak across the Southern United States and into the Mid-Atlantic States on November 15 and 16, 2006. It took place along a sharp cold front that tracked across the entire region from west to east.
Mid-ocean ridge A mid-ocean ridge or mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics. This uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the oceanic crust and create magma where two tectonic plates meet at a divergent boundary.
Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League The Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League was a Junior "B" ice hockey league based in Southern Ontario. They were sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association and Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, and competed for the All-Ontario Junior "B" title, the Sutherland Cup.
Mid-peninsula Free University The Midpeninsula Free University was a free university that emerged in Palo Alto, California out of the burgeoning counterculture scene of there in the 1960s and 1970s John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said (ISBN 0-670-03382-0). It offered classes on everything from intentional communities and "To Be Gentle", to sand-casting candles and "The Art of Giving Away Bread", to Maoist political theory and alternative education.
Mid-size car A mid-size car, frequently referred to as an intermediate, is the North American term for an automobile with a size between that of a compact and a full-size car. In Europe, cars of a similar size are often referred to as large family cars or executive cars, depending on whether they are luxury cars.
Mid-stream operation Mid-stream operation is the operation of loading and unloading cargo containers at the container ship while at sea, with barges or dumb steel lighters performing the transfer, distribution or landing of containers to piers nearby.
Mid-Somerset Show The Mid-Somerset Show, also known as Shepton Show, is a one-day agricultural show held annually in August on a site at Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. Founded over 150 years ago, the show displays and celebrates agriculture and livestock rearing, crafts and hobbies, local heritage and farming history.

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