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 is a streak of light in the sky made by a fast-moving piece of rock from Space, called a meteoroid, heating up and vaporizing as it hits the atmosphere. If any of the rock reaches the ground without vaporizing, what remains is called a meteorite. From the collection of Simon Camm, Cornwall County, England.