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 meteorite is a portion of a meteoroid or asteroid that survives its passage through the atmosphere and hits the ground without being destroyed. Meteorites are sometimes, but not always, found in association with hypervelocity impact craters; during energetic collisions, the entire impactor may be vaporized, leaving no meteorites.