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  • noun Country code for Mauritania (both via ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and FIPS 10-4).
  • noun World Meteorological Organization country code for Martinique.
  • noun Library of Congress MARC country code for Morocco.
  • noun metrology Symbol for the megarayleigh, a unit of measurement of luminous flux, used to measure air glow.
  • noun metrology Symbol for the megaröntgen (or megaroentgen), an obsolete unit of measurement of radio-active dose.
  • initialism Short for MRI.
  • initialism education, special education Mentally retarded

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Examples

  • All she’d done since she first pushed open the chrome-and-glass door (with the name MR. FREDERICO’S etched into the glass) and crossed the white terrazzo floor (with the name MR. FREDERICO’S chiseled into the terrazzo) was park herself on one of those lovely chrome-and-leather chairs and hide her face inside a back issue of Vogue (with the name MR. FREDERICO’S scrawled across the plastic cover).

    Secret Agent Robyn Freedman Spizman 2005

  • All she’d done since she first pushed open the chrome-and-glass door (with the name MR. FREDERICO’S etched into the glass) and crossed the white terrazzo floor (with the name MR. FREDERICO’S chiseled into the terrazzo) was park herself on one of those lovely chrome-and-leather chairs and hide her face inside a back issue of Vogue (with the name MR. FREDERICO’S scrawled across the plastic cover).

    Secret Agent Robyn Freedman Spizman 2005

  • Personally, I wish they would have tried a different screenplay writer, I think MR is part of my issue when the movies fall short of expectations.

    Twilight Lexicon » Hit Fix: Will Eclipse Make Less Money Than New Moon? 2010

  • Even if it did though, MR is still written way better than Twilight.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Your Readers Are Not The Same As You! 2009

  • MR is a positive time for going back over all matters to do with communication, and cleaning up.

    Mercury – the writer’s patron symbol « Write Anything 2010

  • It seems valid to reject a simple equation of "methodological naturalism" with "science", however MR is a very good rule of thumb, especially that in the whole of science no "non naturalistic" explanation for anything has ever been shown to be true, indeed I'm not sure how science can even cope with the non-naturalistic?

    Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision 2009

  • MR is my second favorite blog and the source of much KPC traffic, but I have to take a bit of issue with a couple of their recent posts:

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Especially if he has the support of the so-called Modernisers - although why they would think MR is a moderniser is quite beyond me.

    Runners & Riders 2005

  • Most of the villagers in MR-3 had been moved to strategic hamlets, which made it very difficult to organize the civilians.

    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT 1996

  • PUBCOM were distributed throughout the area, but there were no results, In November 1974 a source reported to ADO, MR-V, that he knew of a live American in MR-IV.

    Pridemore, Dallas R. 1990

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