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.
âA meteor is often referred to as a shooting star, but they are nothing to do with stars at all,â Brendan Owens of the Royal Observatory Greenwich told Channel 4 News. âThey are little dust grains, very small amounts of material from space, that burn up in the earthâs atmosphere.