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 rock found on the surface of the planet that has come from space. In space they are called meteoroids, when seen burning in our atmosphere as shooting stars they are called meteors and when found as rocks on the surface, having survived the journey through our atmosphere, they are called meteorites. meteorite is a rock that fell from space and survived the heat and pressure of falling through the atmosphere and landed on Earth. When it was a streak of light in the sky, it was a meteor.