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Motel Du Cap
Motel Du Cap is the eighth studio album by American rock band Good Charlotte, released on August 8, 2025 through Atlantic Records and its first album in seven years.
Motesanib
Motesanib (AMG 706), an oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting VEGFR 1-3, PDGFR, Kit, and Ret, developed by Amgen and Takeda for thyroid cancer and NSCLC; phase 3 trials failed and development was discontinued.
Motet
Motet: a polyphonic vocal genre, usually on a sacred Latin text and often a cappella, originating in 13th-century France from Notre Dame clausulae, defined by polytextuality, isorhythm, Renaissance imitative counterpoint, and later Baroque and modern choral continuations.
Motexafin
Motexafin: texaphyrin family of tumor-selective redox-active agents; motexafin gadolinium (Xcytrin) is an MRI-detectable radiosensitizer whose phase III brain metastases trials failed and was never FDA approved.
Moth
Moths are all Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, about 135,000 species in 125 families, mostly nocturnal, scale-winged insects facing declines from light pollution, land use, and climate change.
Moth joke
The moth joke is Norm Macdonald's 2009 Conan bit stretching a one-line moth-and-podiatrist joke into a four-minute Tolstoy-inflected monologue ending 'Cause the light was on,' now a celebrated shaggy-dog-style comedy classic.
Moth trap
Moth trap, or insect light trap (Heath, Robinson, Rothamsted, Skinner designs): a device using UV or mercury vapor light, sometimes with pheromone lures, to attract and capture moths unharmed for monitoring, research, and pest management.
Moth-flame optimization
Moth-flame optimization (MFO) is a swarm intelligence metaheuristic for numerical optimization, proposed by Seyedali Mirjalili in 2015 and inspired by moths' spiral flight around lights.
Moth-flame optimization algorithm
Moth-flame optimization (MFO) is a population-based metaheuristic for continuous, derivative-free optimization, introduced by Seyedali Mirjalili in 2015, in which candidate solutions called moths move along logarithmic spirals toward flames, the best positions found so far.
Mothball
A mothball, also known as a moth crystal, is a small pesticide ball, usually naphthalene or paradichlorobenzene, that slowly vaporizes to kill or repel clothes moths in stored clothing.
Mother
Mother: a female parent (also a religious superior, a source, or a fermentation starter). Motherhood is a universal social status whose meaning, norms, and practices vary across cultures, history, and biology.
Mother (2009 film)
Mother (마더, Madeo) is Bong Joon-ho's 2009 South Korean thriller starring Kim Hye-ja and Won Bin, about a mother investigating her disabled son's murder accusation; Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere and Korea's 82nd Academy Awards submission.
Mother (2019 film)
Mother (Madre, 2019) is Rodrigo Sorogoyen's Spanish-French psychological drama expanding his Oscar-nominated 2017 short: Marta Nieto plays Elena, a mother whose son vanished on a French beach, who ten years later befriends a teenager resembling him.
Mother (South Korean TV series)
Mother (마더, Madeo) is a 2018 tvN Korean melodrama, a 16-episode remake of Japan's 2010 NTV series, starring Lee Bo-young and Heo Yool as a teacher who flees with her abused student; Canneseries nominee and Baeksang Best Drama winner.
Mother (Мајка) (2025 film)
Mother (Мајка) is Teona Strugar Mitevska's 2025 English-language drama starring Noomi Rapace as Mother Teresa during one week in August 1948 Calcutta; it opened Venice Orizzonti, won the FIPRESCI Award, and is distinct from Zornitsa Sofia's Bulgarian film Майка.
Mother (マザー) (video game series)
Mother (マザー), known in the West as EarthBound, is Shigesato Itoi's trilogy of Nintendo RPGs (1989 Famicom, 1994 Super Famicom, 2006 GBA) set in modern America with psychic children; Mother 3 was never officially localized.
Mother (マザー) (video game)
Mother (マザー) is a 1989 role-playing game written and produced by Shigesato Itoi for the Famicom. It is the progenitor of the series, known in the West as EarthBound.
Mother 3
Mother 3, also known as Earthbound 2, is a 2006 role-playing game for the Game Boy Advance, the third in the Mother series, released only in Japan.
Mother and Baby Home
Mother and baby homes were Irish institutions for unmarried mothers, 1922–1998, run mostly by Catholic orders; about 9,000 children died, Tuam's 978 deaths prompted a 2021 state apology, redress, and excavation.
Mother and Child (2009 film)
Mother and Child is a 2009 drama written and directed by Rodrigo García, starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, and Kerry Washington as three women affected by adoption; premiered at TIFF 2009, released by Sony Pictures Classics May 7, 2010.
Mother Angelica
Mother Angelica (Rita Antoinette Rizzo, 1923–2016), Poor Clare nun, founded EWTN in 1981 from an Alabama monastery garage with $200; built a viewer-funded global Catholic network, the Hanceville shrine, and wrote 56 books.
Mother Bhumi
Mother Bhumi (地母) is a 2025 Malaysian drama by Chong Keat Aun starring Fan Bingbing as widowed farmer-healer Hong Im in 1990s Kedah; it won three Golden Horse Awards after premiering in Tokyo competition.
Mother Box
Mother Box: Jack Kirby's sentient living computer from DC's Fourth World (Forever People #1, 1971), used by the New Gods of New Genesis for Boom Tubes, healing, and Source-powered feats; distinct from the Apokoliptian Father Box and the DCEU's three boxes.
Mother church
Mother church is a title for a church that stands in a generative relationship to others, such as an apostolic original, a cathedral, or a founding congregation.
Mother Courage and Her Children
Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is Bertolt Brecht's anti-war epic play, written in exile around 1938–1939, set in the Thirty Years War, following canteen woman Anna Fierling who profits from war while losing her three children, Eilif, Kattrin, and Swiss Cheese.
Mother Dairy
Mother Dairy is an Indian dairy company founded in 1974 under Operation Flood, selling milk, ice cream, and ghee, and leading milk retail in Delhi.
Mother Farm
Mother Farm (マザー牧場, Mother Bokujo) is a 250-hectare tourist ranch and theme park on Mount Kano in Futtsu, Chiba, Japan, founded in 1962 by Hisayoshi Maeda; known for sheep shows, flower fields, strawberry picking, and Tokyo Bay views.
Mother goddess
Mother goddess: a deity embodying motherhood, fertility, creation, or the Earth, from Ninhursag and Devī to Cybele; also the contested theory of a prehistoric Goddess religion.
Mother Goose
Mother Goose is the imaginary author of French fairy tales and English nursery rhymes, named in Perrault's 1697 Contes de ma mère l'Oye and Newbery's circa 1765 Mother Goose's Melody; no historical person matches her.
Mother Gothel
Mother Gothel is the central antagonist of Disney's 2010 film Tangled, voiced by Donna Murphy; she kidnaps Rapunzel for her youth-restoring hair. Also the Grimm witch's name and, from 2026, Kathryn Hahn's role in the live-action remake.