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Major Ravi
Major Ravi (മേജർ രവി), real name Major A. K. Ravindran (retd), is a retired Indian Army officer and NSG commando turned Malayalam director of army films such as Keerthichakra (2006), Kurukshetra (2008), Kandahar (2010), and Picket 43 (2015).
Major religious groups
Major religious groups, also known as major world religions, are traditions large or geographically widespread enough that demographic projects track them, including Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and the unaffiliated.
Major Rock Edicts of Ashoka
The Major Rock Edicts of Ashoka (शिलालेख) are fourteen proclamations carved on boulders by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka around 257 BC, setting out his policy of Dhamma.
Major Saab (मेजर साब)
Major Saab (मेजर साब), 1998 Hindi action film by Tinnu Anand for ABCL, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Sonali Bendre; released 26 June 1998 after an NDA portrayal dispute; semi-hit grossing ₹13.10 crore nett in India.
Major scale
The major scale is the seven-note Western diatonic scale with the step pattern W-W-H-W-W-W-H, also called the Ionian mode. C major uses only white keys; its degrees, key signatures, chords, and modes anchor Western tonal music theory.
Major structural subunit of bundle-forming pilus
Bundlin (BfpA, UniProt P33553) is the major structural subunit of the bundle-forming pilus of enteropathogenic E. coli, a type IVb pilin encoded by bfpA on the EAF plasmid, with alpha and beta subtypes and an NMR-solved unique fold.
Major Sundarrajan
Major Sundarrajan (மேஜர் சுந்தரராஜன்), born Srinivasan Sundarrajan (1935–2003), Tamil actor-director; took his "Major" prefix from K. Balachander's Major Chandrakanth (1966); acted in 800+ Tamil films, notably Apoorva Raagangal and Swati Mutyam.
Major surface glycoprotein G
Major surface glycoprotein G (RSV G, InterPro IPR000925) is the attachment glycoprotein of human respiratory syncytial virus: a mucin-like type II membrane protein of 289-299 amino acids that binds CX3CR1, defines RSV A/B antigenic groups, and is a vaccine and antiviral target.
Major Tom
"Major Tom (Coming Home)", German "Major Tom (völlig losgelöst)", is a 1983 new wave song by Peter Schilling retelling Bowie's "Space Oddity", a Neue Deutsche Welle hit.
Major Tom (Coming Home)
Major Tom (Coming Home) is Peter Schilling's 1983 English synth-pop version of his 1982 German hit "Major Tom (völlig losgelöst)", retelling David Bowie's Space Oddity astronaut; it hit No. 1 in Canada, No. 14 in the US, and became Germany's DFB goal anthem in 2024.
Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels): UNESCO World Heritage Site (2000) of four Art Nouveau houses, Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta, inscribed under criteria (i), (ii), and (iv).
Major trauma
Major trauma: life-threatening, potentially life-changing injury managed through field triage, hemorrhage control, and regionalized trauma-center care, which lowers mortality versus non-trauma centers.
Major urinary protein
Major urinary proteins (MUPs; rat α2U-globulins) are ~19 kDa lipocalin pheromone-binding proteins secreted by mouse and rat liver into urine, carrying and slowly releasing volatile pheromones, encoding individual scent signatures, and regulating glucose and lipid metabolism; humans lack them.
Major vault protein repeat domain 2
Major vault protein repeat domain 2 (IPR041134, Pfam PF17794 Vault_2) is one of nine ~55-residue beta-sheet structural repeats in MVP, forming the barrel of the 13 MDa vault particle.
Major vault protein repeat domain 3
Major vault protein repeat domain 3 (Vault_3, IPR040989, Pfam PF17795) is the third of nine tandem repeat domains in MVP, forming the beta-sheet wall of the 13 MDa vault ribonucleoprotein particle.
Major vault protein repeat domain 4
Major vault protein repeat domain 4 (R4, InterPro IPR041136, Pfam PF17796 Vault_4) is the fourth of nine beta-sheet repeat domains forming the MVP barrel of vault particles; with repeat 3 it binds PARP4/vPARP.
Major-General's Song
The Major-General's Song, "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General", is a patter song by Gilbert and Sullivan from the 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance, sung by Major-General Stanley; famous for Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" and widespread parody.
Majorana 1
Majorana 1 is a quantum processing chip that Microsoft announced in February 2025, saying it holds eight topological qubits and is designed to scale to one million.
Majorana Demonstrator
The Majorana Demonstrator was a neutrino physics experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota that searched for neutrinoless double-beta decay of germanium-76.
Majorana fermion
A Majorana fermion, or Majorana particle, is a hypothetical spin-1/2 particle identical to its own antiparticle, proposed by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana in 1937; no elementary one has been confirmed.
Majorana island
A Majorana island is a small superconducting island, or quantum dot, that hosts pairs of Majorana zero modes and is a proposed building block for topological qubits.
Majorana Josephson junction
A Majorana Josephson junction is a superconducting weak link between topological electrodes that hosts Majorana zero modes, producing a 4π-periodic supercurrent known as the fractional Josephson effect.
Majorana nanowire
A Majorana nanowire is a semiconductor nanowire such as InAs or InSb placed on a superconductor in a magnetic field, designed to host Majorana zero modes for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Majorana neutrino
A Majorana neutrino is a hypothetical neutrino that is its own antiparticle, proposed by Ettore Majorana in 1937; its most sensitive test is the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay.
Majorana phases
Majorana phases are the two CP-violating phases, α and β, that appear in the neutrino mixing matrix if neutrinos are their own antiparticles; neutrino oscillations cannot see them.
Majorana zero mode
A Majorana zero mode, also called a Majorana bound state, is a zero-energy quasiparticle in a superconductor that is its own antiparticle, localized at a topological superconductor's boundary.
Majorelle Garden
Majorelle Garden (Jardin Majorelle, حديقة ماجوريل) is a one-hectare botanical garden in Marrakech created by painter Jacques Majorelle from 1923, famed for Majorelle Blue, saved by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in 1980, and now run by the Fondation Jardin Majorelle with a Berber museum.
Majorian
Majorian (Julius Valerius Maiorianus), western Roman emperor 457-461; also Maiorianus. Last active soldier-emperor of the West: recovered Gaul and Spain, legislated against corruption, failed Vandal invasion, killed by Ricimer in 461.
Majoritarian democracy
Majoritarian democracy, or the Westminster model, is Lijphart's model of concentrated executive power, two-party competition, plurality elections, and unitary government, contrasted with consensus democracy and found to give weaker minority representation without better economic performance.
Majoritarianism
Majoritarianism is the doctrine that majority will should prevail over minorities, distinct from majority rule as a decision procedure. Covers Arrow's paradox, Lijphart's majoritarian versus consensus democracy, countermajoritarian institutions, and cases in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, and the United States.