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| Term | Definition | Known Abbreviations and Acronyms |
| Megabyte | MB |
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| Unit of measuring data. 1 Megabyte = 1,000,000 bytes. | ||
| Metadata | MD, Meta |
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| Data that describes other data. Often includes information about the author of the data or when, how, and where it was collected. | ||
| Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions | MIME |
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| A set of extensions to standard internet mail programs that allows for the transmission and viewing of non-ASCII files such as graphics, audio, and video. | ||
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT |
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| Engineering University in Cambridge, Massachusetts that is known for being one of the best engineering universities in the world. | ||
| Mailing List Manager | MLM |
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| Software program that helps compile and mail to addresses on a list. | ||
| Multi Level Marketing | MLM |
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| Marketing program that encourages people to sign up other people to sell. You then get a percentage of the sales made by the people so you sign up. Argueably called a pyramid scheme. | ||
| Multi Media Card | MMC |
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| A tiny device used in MP3 players and digital cameras that stores data. | ||
| MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 | MP3 |
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| Technology used to format sound files into much smaller files while maintaining most of the quality. | ||
| Motion Picture Experts Group | MPEG |
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| Compression standards for video and sound file formats developed by Motion Picture Experts Group. | ||
| Microsoft | MS |
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| A software company best known for the Windows operating system. Largest vendor of personal computer software applications and operating systems. Corporate headquarters are located in Redmond, Washington. | ||
| MicroSoft Network | MSN |
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| Search engine located at http://www.msn.com. Also developing into a web portal site with news, weather, and entertainmant. | ||
| Managed Service Provider | MSN |
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| A company that manages information technology services for other companies via the Internet. | ||
| MicroSoft Sequel Server | MSSQL |
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| Relational database management system produced by Microsoft. | ||
| Multi User Dungeon | MUD |
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| A multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack-and-slash, and social Internet Relay Chat channels. | ||
| My Structured Query Language | MySQL |
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| Open source relational database management system that uses SQL. MySQL is the most popular language for adding, accessing, and processing data in a database. | ||