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Macadamia ternifolia
Queensland nut Queens"land nut` (Bot.) The nut of an Australian tree (Macadamia ternifolia). It is about an inch in diameter, and contains a single round edible seed, or sometimes two hemispherical seeds. So called from Queensland in Australia.
Macadamization
Macadamization Mac*ad`am*i*za"tion, n. The process or act of macadamizing.
Macadamize
Macadamize Mac*ad"am*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Macadamized; p. pr. & vb. n. Macadamizing.] [From John Loudon McAdam, who introduced the process into Great Britain in 1816.] To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
Macadamized
Macadamize Mac*ad"am*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Macadamized; p. pr. & vb. n. Macadamizing.] [From John Loudon McAdam, who introduced the process into Great Britain in 1816.] To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
Macadamizing
Macadamize Mac*ad"am*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Macadamized; p. pr. & vb. n. Macadamizing.] [From John Loudon McAdam, who introduced the process into Great Britain in 1816.] To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

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- Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam around 1820, in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex...
- In the study of color vision, a MacAdam ellipse is roughly a region on a chromaticity diagram which contains all colors which are indistinguishable, to...
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- tar) to bind the road surface's stones together, "tarmac" (for Tar Macadam.) McAdam was born in Ayr, Scotland. He was the youngest of ten children and...
- Henry MacAdam both believe that the inscription is genuine, but attests to a person who simply had the same cognomen as Pontius Pilate. MacAdam argues...
- Reginald Alan MacAdam (born March 16, 1952) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who spent 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL)...
- Schrödinger's work was further developed by David MacAdam and Siegfried Rösch [Wikidata]. MacAdam was the first person to calculate precise coordinates...
- Beverly Jane MacAdam (born March 1, 1957) is a Canadian politician who has served as a senator from Prince Edward Island since May 2023. MacAdam is a chartered...
- I. MacAdam (ed.). Studies in the History of the Roman Province of Arabia: The Northern Sector. British Archaeological Reports. pp. 38–46. MacAdam, Henry...
- Patrick "Pat" MacAdam (15 September 1934 – 19 May 2015) was a Canadian writer and longtime Conservative Party insider born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia....