MUMMIFICATION

In medical jurisprudence. A term applied to the complete drying up of the body. It is the result ? burial in a dry, hot soil, or the exposure of the body to a continuously cold and dry atmosphere. 15 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 201.

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MUMMING

Antic diversions in the Christmas holidays, suppressed in Queen Anne’s time.

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MULTIPLE RETIREMENT AGES

An employee’s retirement age, receiving benefits, either full or reduced. Three types exist: normal, early, and deferred. Normal retirement is the usual time an employee is allowed to retire and receive full benefits. Early retirement is the earliest time an employee is allowed to retire, but receives reduced benefits, with a penalty. Deferred retirement is when an employee works beyond the normal retirement age and likely receive an improved benefits package.

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MULTITUDE

An assemblage of rnanj people. According to Coke it is not a word of very precise meaning; for some authorities hold that there must be at least ten persons to make a multitude, while others maintain that no definite number is fixed by law. Co. Litt. 257. Multitudinem decern faciunt. Co. Litt. 257. Ten make a multitude. Multitudo errantium non pai’it crrori patrocinum. The multitude of those who err furnishes no countenance or excuse for error. 11 Coke, 75a. It is no excuse for error that it is entertained by numbers. Multitudo imperitorum pcrdit curiam. The great number of unskillful practitioners ruins a court. 2 Inst. 219.

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MULTIPLE SENTENCE

the term that applies to a sentence that is greater than a first offender would receive as the person has committed the crime several times.

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MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

Statistical data analysis procedure involving more than one measurement or observation type. More than one dependent variable is analyzed simultaneously with other variables as a problem is solved.

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MULTIPLE SHOP

1. In Retail, This is often called a retail chain, a multi-locations retail shop with common ownership and management. Contrast to mom and pop store. 2. In a Union, and other negotiating entities, this term refers to the same collective bargaining unit having different employee types.

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MULTIVARIATE DATA

Based on the variables types collected and used by financial analysts, profits, cash flow, risk, and even new product ideas are analyzed and estimated. The analysis of this data as statistics typically is complex and sometimes requires unique software systems to help in the analysis, consisting of a set of random variables with multiple dimensions.

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MULTIPLE SOURCING

Using many different providers of components and services in the production process. This reduces production risk to the supply chain if it has a problem and keeps production on track in the event of a source delivery failure.

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