Glossary M

Motor diagnostic product helps maintain brushed dc motors. Its applications include vibration monitoring systems for preventive maintenance of all rotating machinery, commutator measuring devices for determining true roundness and spring pressure measurement devices.

Meat byproduct refers to any part capable of use as human food, other than meat, which has been derived from one or more cattle, sheep, swine, or goats.

Mask is defined as a glass plate with a pattern of transparent and opaque areas used to photolithographically create patterns on wafers. A mask is commonly used to refer to a plate that has a pattern large enough to pattern a whole wafer at one time.

Motor generator is a device normally used either to regulate or condition power from a raw power source like electric utility grid.

Methanol or methyl alcohol is characterized as a colorless poisonous liquid, with essentially no odor and very little taste. It is the simplest alcohol, and has a formula CH₃OH.

Maple is a kind of hardwood recognized for its soft, even, linear grain texture. It is whitish in overall color and takes light- to mid-range finish tones best.

Mill pertains to a factory in which metals are hot worked, cold worked, or melted and cast into standard shapes suitable for secondary fabrication into commercial products.

Mill products refer to metal that has been fabricated into an intermediate form before being made into a finished product.