All articles starting with M

Moving bottleneck

A moving bottleneck is a slow vehicle, such as a bus or heavy truck, that restricts faster traffic flow and causes queues to form behind it.

Moving Day (Boston): the annual September 1 lease turnover when an estimated 70-79% of Boston rentals change hands. Also called Allston Christmas; documented since an 1899 Globe article; formerly May 1.

Moving group

A moving group is a set of gravitationally unbound stars that share a common space motion through the Galaxy but are scattered across the whole sky.

Moving head light

A moving head light is an automated stage lighting fixture with a motorized head that pans and tilts under remote control, used at concerts, theaters, and nightclubs.

Moving horizon estimation

Moving horizon estimation (MHE), also called receding-horizon estimation, estimates a dynamic system's state by solving a constrained optimization over a sliding window of recent measurements, handling nonlinear models and constraints that defeat the Kalman filter.

Moving least squares

Moving least squares is a local regression method that fits a weighted polynomial over moving neighborhoods of scattered data, used in statistics and surface reconstruction.

Moving magnet and conductor problem

The moving magnet and conductor problem is an electrodynamics thought experiment asking why identical currents arise whether the magnet or the conductor moves, which opened Einstein's 1905 relativity paper.

Moving mesh method

A moving mesh method is a numerical technique for solving partial differential equations that continuously relocates a fixed number of mesh nodes toward regions where the solution varies rapidly.

Oct 3, 2026

Moving On (남매의 여름밤)

Moving On (남매의 여름밤) is Yoon Dan-bi's 2019 South Korean debut family drama about siblings Okju and Dongju spending summer with their grandfather; it won four Busan awards, Rotterdam's Bright Future Award, and 2020 Independent Film of the Year.

Moving particle simulation

Moving particle simulation, the moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method, is a meshfree Lagrangian particle method for incompressible fluid flows, introduced by S. Koshizuka and Y. Oka at the University of Tokyo in 1996.

Moving Picture Experts Group

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an ISO/IEC standards body founded in 1988 whose audio and video codecs, including MP3, AVC, and HEVC, underlie digital television and streaming.

Moving Pictures (Rush album)

Moving Pictures is Rush's eighth studio album, released February 12, 1981, recorded at Le Studio, Quebec, with Terry Brown. Tom Sawyer, Limelight, Red Barchetta, and YYZ made it Rush's best-selling album.

Moving sofa problem

The moving sofa problem, or moving couch problem, asks for the largest-area planar shape that can move around a right-angled corner in a unit-width hallway.

Moving target indication

Moving target indication (MTI) is a radar signal processing technique that detects moving targets by suppressing stationary clutter using Doppler phase changes, dating to World War II.

Moving the Centre

Moving the Centre is a 1993 collection of essays by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o arguing that cultural power must move from the West to many centers.

Moving violation

Moving violation: a traffic law breach committed by a driver while the vehicle is moving, also called a moving traffic offense. Distinguished from parking, equipment, and paperwork violations; typically strict liability; carries license points, fines, insurance effects, and possible disqualification.

Moving-average model

A moving-average model is a time series model expressing the current observation as a linear combination of current and past white-noise shocks, used for forecasting.

Moviola

Moviola: upright film editing machine invented by Iwan Serrurier in Hollywood in 1924, first sold to Douglas Fairbanks Studio; the first motion picture editing machine, standard in Hollywood until flatbeds like Steenbeck and KEM displaced it.

Movistar

Movistar is the commercial brand of Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica for its fixed, mobile, TV, and internet services in Spain and Hispanic America, launched as a mobile brand in 1994.

Movistar KOI

Movistar KOI (KOI, MKOI) is a Spanish esports organization formed in 2024 from the merger of KOI (founded 2021 by Ibai Llanos and Gerard Piqué), Movistar Riders, and MAD Lions under OverActive Media; LEC 2025 Spring champion and Worlds 2026 LEC second seed.

Movistar Team (men's team)

Movistar Team (MOV), Spanish UCI WorldTeam men's road cycling squad founded 1980 as Reynolds, also Banesto, Caisse d'Épargne; 8 Tours, 6 Giros, 5 Vueltas; Enric Mas won the 2026 Vuelta; sponsored by Telefónica through 2029.

Movita Castaneda

Movita Castaneda (Maria Luisa Castaneda, 1916-2015), American film actress and singer, played Tehani in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Fort Apache (1948), and was Marlon Brando's second wife.

Movsar Evloev (Мовсар Евлоев)

Movsar Evloev (Мовсар Евлоев), Russian UFC featherweight from Ingushetia, born 1994. Undefeated 20-0 (10-0 UFC, all decisions), wrestling style; challenges champion Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 333, October 2026.

Movses Daskhurantsi

Movses Daskhurantsi, also called Movses Kaghankatvatsi, is the traditional name for the author of the History of the Aluank, the main source on Caucasian Albania.

Sep 24, 2026

Movses Khorenatsi

Movses Khorenatsi (Մովսես Խորենացի), traditionally dated about 410 to 490, is the Armenian historian honored as the "Father of History" and author of the History of the Armenians.

Movses Khorenatsi Medal

The Movses Khorenatsi Medal is a state medal of Armenia, established in 1993 and awarded by the President for achievements in culture, art, literature, education, and sports.

Movses Silikyan

Movses Silikyan (Մովսես Սիլիկյան), born Moisey Silikov, was a general of the Russian and Armenian armies who commanded the Armenian forces at Sardarabad in 1918.