plural of Mand

A dialect continuum within the Mande language family spoken in West Africa.

A surname from Dutch. / A surname from German. / A surname from Yiddish. / A village in Rüdesheim, Bad Kreuznach district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany / A river in West Flanders, Belgium

(mathematics) the set of complex numbers c for which the orbit of 0 under iteration of the complex quadratic polynomial zₙ₊₁ = zₙ² + c remains bounded. The boundary of this set is a fractal.

Alternative form of maunder / Alternative form of gerrymander

An Indo-Aryan language of Himachal Pradesh, Mandi District, India. It is closely related to Dogri, Pahari, and Hindi.

(organic chemistry) 2-phenyl-2-hydroxyacetic acid, C₆H₅CH(OH)COOH; originally extracted from bitter almonds, it has antibacterial and bacteriostatic properties.

A decorative Native American object, derived from a traditional ceremonial shield.

plural of mandella

(South Africa) An order (restitutory interdict) handed down by a court on application, originating in Roman Dutch law where a person (spoliator) is compelled to return a thing that has been taken unlawfully. The case turns on possession, not ownership: a mandement van spolie can even be brought by a thief where the owner unlawfully retrieves the thing stolen.