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Meadow
Meadow: grassland left uncut through the growing season, then mown for hay and aftermath-grazed, unlike year-round pasture. Flower-rich habitat; over 97% of UK hay meadows lost since the 1930s; also mountain and urban meadow types.
Meadow (Norway)
Meadow (slåttemark, slåtteeng): Norwegian semi-natural hay meadow kept open by traditional mowing without fertilizer; critically endangered (CR) habitat, about 9,000 decares in managed sites as of 2023, under a national action plan running to 2037.
Meadow Soprano
Meadow Mariangela Soprano is Tony and Carmela's daughter on HBO's The Sopranos, played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler from 1999 to 2007; her arc runs from sheltered teenager to Columbia graduate and her father's defender.
Meadow Walker
Meadow Walker (Meadow Rain Walker Thornton-Allan, born 1998) is an American model, daughter of Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker. Opened Givenchy AW21, walked Balenciaga and Acne Studios, and leads the Paul Walker Foundation for ocean conservation.
Meadowlands Racetrack
Meadowlands Racetrack, known as the Big M, is a harness racing track in East Rutherford, New Jersey, opened in 1976 and the long-time home of the Hambletonian.
Meadowlark Lemon
Meadowlark Lemon (Meadow Lemon III, 1932-2015), American basketball entertainer nicknamed the Clown Prince of Basketball; Harlem Globetrotters showman famed for half-court hook shots, 16,000 games, 2003 Hall of Fame enshrinement, later an ordained minister.
Meads
Meads, Kentucky: unincorporated community in Boyd County on U.S. 60 south of Ashland, once Meads Station on the Ashland Coal and Iron Railway and later a C&O Lexington Subdivision coal shipping point.
Meagan Duhamel
Meagan Duhamel (born 1985, Lively, Ontario) is a Canadian retired pair skater who with Eric Radford won World titles in 2015 and 2016 and three Olympic medals, including 2018 team gold.
Meagan Good
Meagan Good (born 1981) is an American actress and producer known for Eve's Bayou, Deception, Think Like a Man, Shazam!, and Harlem, married to Jonathan Majors since 2025.
Meagan S. Mauter
Meagan S. Mauter is an American environmental engineer at Stanford who works on water treatment and desalination, directing WE3Lab and the National Alliance for Water Innovation.
Meagan Tandy
Meagan Tandy (Meagan Yvonne Tandy), American actress and model born 1985 in Fremont, California. Miss California USA 2007, 3rd runner-up at Miss USA 2007. Known for Sophie Moore on Batwoman, Braeden on Teen Wolf, Maya in Unstoppable; founder of Girl Talk and Empire Girls.
Meager
Meager (Mount Meager Volcanic Complex, Qw'elqw'elústen) is Canada's northernmost Cascade arc volcano in British Columbia; VEI 4 eruption about 2360 years BP, Canada's greatest-threat volcano, major 2010 landslide.
Meaghamann
Meaghamann (மீகாமன்), meaning "captain of the ship", is a 2014 Tamil action thriller directed by Magizh Thirumeni, starring Arya, Hansika Motwani, and Ashutosh Rana, about an undercover cop infiltrating a Goa drug cartel; released 25 December 2014 with music by S. Thaman.
Meaghan Martin
Meaghan Jette Martin (born 1992, Las Vegas) is an American actress and singer known as Tess Tyler in Disney's Camp Rock films, Bianca in 10 Things I Hate About You, Jo in Mean Girls 2, and the voice of Jessica in Until Dawn and Naminé in Kingdom Hearts.
Meaghan Mikkelson
Meaghan Mikkelson, full name Meaghan Mikkelson-Reid, is a Canadian retired ice hockey defenceman who won two Olympic gold medals and is now a Calgary Flames radio commentator.
Meaghan Oppenheimer
Meaghan Oppenheimer is an American TV writer and showrunner, creator of Hulu's Tell Me Lies (2022–2026, adapted from Carola Lovering's novel), Queen America, and the film We Are Your Friends; she is developing Bastards at Hulu under a 20th Television overall deal.
Meal
A meal is an occasion for eating at a set time, or the food eaten then, typically breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with smaller occasions called snacks.
Meal, Ready-to-Eat
Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) is the US Armed Forces' standard self-contained shelf-stable field ration, in retort pouches since 1981, about 1,250 kcal per meal with a flameless ration heater since 1992.
Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels: international network of local programs delivering nutritious meals to homebound older adults and people with disabilities, with safety checks and social contact; originated in WWII Britain, first US program in Philadelphia, 1954.
Mealworm
Mealworm: larva of the darkling beetle Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm), a worldwide grain pest also farmed for pet feed, animal feed, and EU-approved human food; distinct from the dark mealworm Tenebrio obscurus and superworm Zophobas morio.
Mealy machine
A Mealy machine, or Mealy automaton, is a finite-state machine whose output depends on its current state and current input, named after George H. Mealy, who introduced it in 1955.
Mealybug
Mealybug (Pseudococcidae), scale insect family of over 2,000 sap-sucking species with wax-covered females; pests like citrus mealybug Planococcus citri, controlled by Cryptolaemus and parasitoids.
Mean (song)
"Mean" is a 2010 country and bluegrass song by Taylor Swift from Speak Now, written in response to critic Bob Lefsetz and bullying; it won Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song at the 2012 Grammys.
Mean absolute error
Mean absolute error (MAE) is a scale-dependent measure of prediction accuracy, the average of absolute differences between predicted and true values, minimized by forecasting the median.
Mean absolute percentage error
The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), also called the mean absolute percentage deviation, is a unit-free measure of forecast accuracy, most widely used in businesses.
Mean anomaly
The mean anomaly is a Keplerian orbital element, an angle increasing steadily by 360 degrees each orbit that specifies a body's position along its elliptical orbit.
Mean arterial pressure
Mean arterial pressure (MAP) is the average arterial pressure over the cardiac cycle, estimated as 1/3 systolic + 2/3 diastolic. Key targets: 65 mm Hg in septic shock; ambulatory thresholds <90/90-92/≥92 mmHg.
Mean average precision
Mean average precision, or mAP, is the standard evaluation metric for object detection models: the mean of per-class average precision computed from precision-recall curves of ranked detections.
Mean centering
Mean centering is a statistical preprocessing step that subtracts a variable's mean from each observation, giving transformed values that average to zero; it is used in regression and PCA.
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) is a red cell index, hemoglobin divided by packed cell volume, used in anemia classification and discriminant indices, with typical adult reference intervals near 31.9-35.5 g/dL.