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.
Once it hits the Earth, the fragments (if any!) are called meteorites.   A meteorite is a rock, usually big, that is in space outside of Earth's atmosphere. A meteor is a meteorite that has entered Earth's atmosphere without burning up. A meteoroid is in space, a sand to boulder-sized piece of space debris orbiting the Sun.