The program provides business counseling and management assistance to minority owned business enterprises. It operates by providing grants to a national network of Minority Business Development Centers, Native American Business Development Centers, and Business Resource Centers.
Word forms: plural meteors. countable noun. A meteor is a piece of rock or metal that burns very brightly when it enters the earth's atmosphere from space. Synonyms: falling star, comet, meteorite, fireball More Synonyms of meteor.
A meteor, known colloquially as a shooting star or falling star, is the passage of a meteoroid, micrometeoroid, comet or asteroid into the Earth's atmosphere, heated from collisions with air particles in the upper atmosphere and shedding glowing material in its wake sufficiently to create a visible streak of light. meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to 1 meter-wide objects.