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Movement of the Struggle for Freedom of Lithuania

The Movement of the Struggle for Freedom of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Laisvės Kovos Sąjūdis, LLKS) united Lithuania's anti-Soviet partisans under one leadership from 1949 until the partisan war ended in 1953.

Movement protein

Movement protein: virus-encoded plant viral protein (MP; e.g., TMV 30K) that transports viral genomes cell to cell through plasmodesmata by gating channels; 30K superfamily evolved from jelly-roll capsid proteins.

Movement system

The Movement system was the no-party arrangement under which Uganda was governed from 1986 to 2005, with elections contested on 'individual merit' rather than by political parties.

Movement to Protect Constitutional Government

The Movement to Protect Constitutional Government (憲政擁護運動, or Goken Movement) was a Taishō-era Japanese campaign for cabinets based on party majorities, producing Japan's first coalition government in 1924.

Movements for the annexation of Canada to the United States

Annexation movements of Canada: organized efforts, chiefly the 1849 Montreal Annexation Manifesto, later Seward's British Columbia bid and the Fenian raids, and the 2025 Trump 51st-state revival, to join Canada to the United States.

Moves like Jagger

Moves like Jagger: 2011 Maroon 5 single featuring Christina Aguilera, from The Voice; Hot 100 No. 1, UK No. 2 for seven weeks, 6.9 million US downloads, written by Levine, Blanco, Malik, Shellback.

Moveworks

Moveworks is an American enterprise software company whose AI assistant resolves IT, HR, and other employee requests through Slack, Teams, and web portals, founded in 2016.

Movidius

Movidius was a fabless semiconductor company founded in Dublin in 2005 by Sean Mitchell and David Moloney, designing low-power vision processing units for edge AI.

Movidius Myriad

Movidius Myriad is a family of low-power vision processing units developed by the Irish company Movidius and continued by Intel after its 2016 acquisition, powering drones and Neural Compute Sticks.

Movie 43

Movie 43 (2013) is an American R-rated anthology comedy with twelve directors including Peter Farrelly, Elizabeth Banks, and Brett Ratner, produced by Charles Wessler, shot over about four years around stars' schedules, released in two framing-device versions, and panned by critics at 5% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Movie camera

Movie camera: a film camera exposing frames intermittently; the Lumière Cinématographe (1895) and Edison's 35mm perforated film established the format, later joined by 16mm (1923) and modern digital cinema cameras.

Movie projector

A movie projector, also called a film projector, is an optomechanical device that displays motion pictures on a screen by moving film intermittently past a light source and lens.

Movie theater

Movie theater (cinema): a venue for public film exhibition. Began with 1905 Pittsburgh nickelodeons (five cents, 96 seats), grew into 3,000-seat movie palaces like the Strand (1914), then multiplexes and premium formats such as IMAX 70mm.

Moviebook (影谱科技)

Moviebook (影谱科技) was a Beijing artificial-intelligence video company founded in 2009 by Ji Xiaochen, best known for automated ad insertion into finished film and television footage.

MovieGenBench

MovieGenBench, officially Movie Gen Bench, is a prompt-based evaluation set released by Meta in October 2024 for human-preference evaluation of text-to-video and video-to-audio generation models.

MovieLens

MovieLens is a web-based movie recommendation service run by GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota, launched in 1997, and the source of widely used recommender research datasets.

MoviePass

MoviePass is an American movie theater subscription service founded in 2011 by Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt, famous for its unsustainable $9.95 unlimited plan, 2019 collapse, FTC settlement, and 2022–2023 credit-based relaunch.

Movies!

Movies! (Movies! TV Network) is a free over-the-air American broadcast network, a Fox Television Stations and Weigel Broadcasting joint venture launched May 2013, airing unedited classic films from the 1920s to the 1980s 24 hours a day with 12 minutes of commercials per hour.

MovieSphere Gold

MovieSphere Gold is an American free-to-air, ad-supported movie network operated by Lionsgate and Debmar-Mercury, launched in November 2025 and billed as the first contemporary all-movie digital network.

Movile

Movile is a Brazilian technology holding company founded in 1998 by Fabricio Bloisi, best known as the vehicle through which iFood grew into Latin America's dominant food delivery platform.

Movile Cave

Movile Cave (Peștera Movile) is a sealed, thermally warmed cave near Mangalia, Romania, discovered in 1986 and powered entirely by chemoautotrophic microbes rather than sunlight.

Movimento Armorial

The Movimento Armorial, or Armorial Movement, is a Brazilian artistic movement founded by Ariano Suassuna in Recife in 1970 to create erudite art from Northeastern popular culture.

Movimento Pau-Brasil

The Movimento Pau-Brasil, or Pau-Brasil movement, was a Brazilian modernist literary and artistic movement launched by writer Oswald de Andrade, whose 1924 manifesto called for a national art and led to Antropofagia in 1928.

Movin' to the Sun

Movin' to the Sun (also "Movin' To The Sun") is a 2026 house single by HUGEL, Imael Angel, and Ultra Naté, released 22 May 2026 on Make The Girls Dance; it peaked at No. 2 in the UK, No. 1 on Beatport, and sparked an AI-music controversy over its Suno-generated origin.

Moving (club night)

Moving is a weekly electronic-music party held every Thursday at the D-Edge club in São Paulo, Brazil, running since October 2004 and curated by Anna Biazin.

Moving (무빙) (South Korean TV series)

Moving (무빙) is a 2023 Disney+ South Korean superhero series adapted by Kang Full from his 2015 webtoon, directed by Park In-je, about superpowered children and their former-agent parents; 20 episodes, ~60 billion KRW budget, Disney+'s most-watched Korean series.

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act

The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, known as MAP-21, is a US federal law signed in 2012 funding highways and transit.

Moving average

A moving average, also known as a rolling or running average, is a statistic that averages successive subsets of a data series, smoothing short-term fluctuations in statistics, signal processing, and finance.

Moving bed biofilm reactor

A moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) is a wastewater treatment process in which microbes grow as biofilms on small plastic carriers moving freely with the water, needing smaller tanks than activated sludge.

Moving block signalling

Moving block signaling is a railway train-control method in which safe separation between trains is computed continuously from each train's exact position rather than fixed track sections.