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MTR

MTR is the initialism of mountaintop removal.

MTR is the initialism of Mass Transit Railway.

MTR is the initialism of Mavalli Tiffin Room.

Meaning of mountaintop removal

Noun

mountaintop removal (uncountable)

  1. A form of surface mining at the summit or summit ridge of a mountain, by blasting away the overburden with explosives and dumping the excess material into nearby valleys.

Questions about MTR

What is MTR the initialism of?
MTR is the initialism of mountaintop removal.

Words near MTR in the dictionary

  1. mTorrs
  2. MTOW
  3. MTP
  4. MTPL
  5. MTPs
  6. MTR
  7. MTRC
  8. MTRCB
  9. MTRCL
  10. mtrl.
  11. mtrls.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: MTR (page history and authors); mountaintop removal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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