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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 c. 1820, in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex layers...
- Brunswick McAdams Lake, Nova Scotia McAdam, Virginia McAdam, Washington Macadam, a method of road building. MacAdam ellipse, the region of chromaticity...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- the set of all optimal colors is called the optimal color solid or Rösch–MacAdam color solid. For now, we are unable to produce objects with such colors...
- dust-free enhancement of simple compacted stone macadam surfaces invented by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam in the early 19th century. The terms "tarmacadam"...
- Toshiko MacAdam (born Toshiko Horiuchi) is a ****anese textile artist based in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is best known for her work with large-scale...
- Colonel William Ivison Macadam, (1856–1902), and Sarah Maconochie MacDonald (1855–1941). He was the grandson of Stevenson Macadam, (1829–1901). Educated...
- Gerard Adams (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is a retired Irish Republican politician who was the president of Sinn Féin between 13...