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MATURE

The point when a policy’s face value is paid out, as when the insured dies, the policy is mature.

MATURE MARKET

One that is functioning without change or innovation or has no growth.

MATURITY GUARANTEE

after a specific amount of time has passed, the pay-out is the guaranteed amount of a life insurance or segregated fund contract. After ten years have passed the contract’s specified beneficiary will

MATURITY DATE

A contractual agreement, financial instrument, guaranty, insurance policy, loan, or offer is due for settlement on this specific date. Also known as redemption date for investments. Is also a synonym for settlement

MATTER OF FACT

An assertion or allegation of a fact’s truth as this inquiry’s basis.

MATURITY PERIOD

Completed, due, or paid up timebound item with this type of period.

MAXIMUM ACCEPTABLE TOXIC CONCENTRATION

Environment’s toxic substance concentrations range starting at ‘no observable adverse effect level’ and limiting at the ‘lowest observable adverse effect level’.

MATURITY STRUCTURE

A bank is largely invulnerable to collapse due to depositors’ funds- withdrawal panic rush by this specific pattern of arranged repayments of depositors’ money.

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERION

Under conditions of uncertainty this is a decision making rule in decision theory. It states that the decision maker Ignoring all possible events save the one most likely to occur that produces

MATRIX ORGANIZATION

The horizontal flow of skills and information moves easily through this type of organizational structure. The management of large projects or product development processes uses this type of structure. Employees come from

MAXIMUM EXPOSURE LIMIT (MEL)

Highest allowable chemical-concentration in a period-limited worker exposure. Some chemicals have short reference periods. MEL is usually expressed for an 8-hour reference period in parts-per-million (ppm).

MAXIMUM LOAN AMOUNT

A borrower’s secured loan’s highest dollar limit. Set by the lender according to the purpose of securing the loan as well as various factors related to the borrower. The selected loan program,

MAXIMUM INVENTORY LEVEL

A never-to-be-exceeded inventory. One method of inventory control is calculating maximum inventory level.

MATRIX MANAGEMENT

Employees with dual responsibilities and dual bosses have multiple command-and-control structures. These employees have one boss, as project manager, for example, for day-to-day operations. They have another boss, a departmental head, for

MARTENSITIC STAINLESS STEELS

Steels that contain very little nickel or other alloying metal, yet a high amount of chromium. Heat treatment of these steels hardens them and makes them stronger but also more brittle. they

MANTISSA

Written on the right of the decimal point, this is the fractional part of a decimal fraction. It is also a common logarithm’s decimal part.

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