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Motocross racing teams
Motocross racing teams are organized outfits that field riders and prepared motorcycles in off-road competition, ranging from manufacturer-run factory teams to independently owned, manufacturer-supported satellite teams.
Motocross World Championship
FIM Motocross World Championship (MXGP), the FIM-sanctioned international motocross world series founded in 1957 with a 500cc class; MXGP and MX2 classes, two 30-minute motos per Grand Prix, 19-round 2026 calendar, distinct from AMA Pro Motocross.
Motocrossed
Motocrossed is a 2001 American Disney Channel Original Movie, a teen sports comedy directed by Steve Boyum and starring Alana Austin, loosely based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
MotoGP class
The MotoGP class is the premier category of the FIM Road Racing World Championship, contested by prototype motorcycles; it replaced the 500cc class as the top tier in 2002.
Motoharu Seiki
Motoharu Seiki (清木 元治) is a Japanese cancer researcher born in 1949, known for discovering MT1-MMP, a key enzyme in cancer invasion and metastasis, and for early work on HTLV-I.
Motohide Tamura
Motohide Tamura (田村 元秀), born 1959 in Nara Prefecture, is a Japanese astronomer who led the Subaru SEEDS direct-imaging exoplanet survey and the 1998 brown dwarf study in Science.
Motohiko Saitō
Motohiko Saitō (斎藤元彦) is a Japanese politician and former civil servant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications serving as Governor of Hyōgo Prefecture, whose capital is Kobe.
Motohiro Hata
Motohiro Hata (秦基博) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, born in 1980, known for the 2014 hit "Himawari no Yakusoku", the theme song of the film Stand by Me Doraemon.
Motohiro Ōno
Motohiro Ōno (大野元裕) is a Japanese politician serving as independent Governor of Saitama since 2019, after serving in the House of Councillors and as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Defense.
Motoko Kusanagi (草薙素子)
Motoko Kusanagi (草薙素子) is the full-body cyborg Major who leads Public Security Section 9 in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell, voiced by Atsuko Tanaka and later Maaya Sakamoto in the 2026 Science SARU series.
Motomami
Motomami is Rosalía's third studio album (Columbia, March 2022), a 16-track mix of reggaeton, dembow, bachata, and flamenco; it won the 2022 Latin Grammy for Album of the Year and ranked No. 8 on Pitchfork's 2020s list.
Motomasa Tanaka
Motomasa Tanaka (田中 元雅) is a Japanese molecular biologist and Team Director at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, known for showing that prion strain properties are encoded in amyloid conformation.
Motomu Kanai
Motomu Kanai (金井 求), born 1967 in Tokyo, is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at the University of Tokyo working in asymmetric catalysis and what he calls catalysis medicine.
Motomu Toriyama
Motomu Toriyama (鳥山求), Japanese game director and scenario writer at Square Enix since 1994; directed FFX-2, the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, and co-directed the Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth games.
Motonaga Arito
Motonaga Arito (蟻戸 一永, born 2002) is a Japanese speed skater from Hokkaido who won two gold medals and a silver at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne.
Motonari Uesugi
Motonari Uesugi (上杉 志成) is a Japanese chemical biologist who designs small molecules that modulate human cells, and has been a professor at Kyoto University since 2005.
Motoo Kimura
Motoo Kimura (木村 資生) was a Japanese population geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics, best known for proposing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968.
Motoori Haruniwa
Motoori Haruniwa (本居春庭, 1763–1828) was a Japanese kokugaku scholar of the late Edo period, eldest son of Motoori Norinaga, who systematized the study of Japanese verb conjugation.
Motoori Norinaga
Motoori Norinaga (本居宣長), 1730 to 1801, was a Japanese physician and kokugaku scholar from Matsusaka who spent 35 years writing the Kojiki-den, a commentary on the Kojiki.
Motoori Ōhira
Motoori Ōhira (本居大平, 1756–1833) was a Japanese kokugaku scholar and poet of the late Edo period, adopted heir of Motoori Norinaga who led the Suzunoya school.
Motor Activity
Motor Activity (MeSH D009043, introduced 1968): body movements of a human or animal as a behavioral phenomenon; also IUPAC neurotoxicology term for animal physical activity, measured by actigraphy and accelerometry.
Motor capacitor
A motor capacitor, also called a dual capacitor, is a capacitor wired to an electric motor's winding to create the phase shift that starts a single-phase induction motor; capacitor-start designs roughly double starting torque.
Motor City (film)
Motor City (2026) is a nearly dialogue-free American action revenge thriller directed by Potsy Ponciroli, starring Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster, and Pablo Schreiber, set in 1970s Detroit; premiered at Venice 2025, released July 24, 2026.
Motor constants
Motor constants are proportionality factors linking a motor's electrical quantities to mechanical ones, such as the torque constant relating current to torque; fixed by design, they shift with temperature and carry manufacturing tolerances.
Motor control
Motor Control (ISSN 1087-1640) is a peer-reviewed quarterly Human Kinetics journal, official journal of the International Society of Motor Control since 1997, publishing multidisciplinary research on human movement control and motor disorders; MEDLINE-indexed, 2024 impact factor 1.4.
Motor control center
A motor control center (MCC) is a floor-mounted assembly of enclosed vertical sections sharing a common power bus, housing combination motor starters in plug-in buckets for centralized control.
Motor cortex
Motor cortex: frontal lobe region for voluntary movement, comprising primary motor cortex (M1, Brodmann area 4), premotor cortex, and supplementary motor area; somatotopic map, Betz cells, corticospinal output, discovered by Fritsch and Hitzig in 1870.
Motor current signature analysis
Motor current signature analysis (MCSA) is a noninvasive condition-monitoring method that diagnoses electric motor faults, such as broken rotor bars and bearing defects, from the supply current spectrum.
Motor evoked potential monitoring
Motor evoked potential (MEP) monitoring is a neurophysiological technique that records muscle responses to transcranial electrical or magnetic stimulation, providing near-real-time measurement of corticospinal tract integrity during surgery.
Motor Evoked Potentials
Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) are muscle or nerve responses to transcranial electrical or magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex, used for intraoperative motor pathway monitoring and diagnosing corticospinal tract disease.