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MTD (mobile network)

MTD (Mobile Telephone system D) was a manually switched mobile telephone network run by Swedish state operator Televerket from 1971 until the automatic NMT system replaced it in the 1980s.

MTDH (metadherin), also called AEG-1 or LYRIC, is a human chromosome 8q22.1 gene encoding a 582-amino-acid transmembrane oncoprotein, discovered in 2002 in HIV-1-infected astrocytes and overexpressed across many cancers.

MTEB (Massive Text Embedding Benchmark)

MTEB (Massive Text Embedding Benchmark) is an open-source benchmark and leaderboard measuring text embedding models across tasks like retrieval, clustering, and classification, introduced in October 2022.

Sep 19, 2026

Mteto Nyati

Mteto Nyati is a South African technology executive, Group Chief Executive of Altron from 2017 to 2022 and now Executive Chairman of BSG and chairperson of the Eskom board.

MTG-I1

MTG-I1, also known as Meteosat 12, is the first of four imaging satellites in Europe's Meteosat Third Generation system, launched on an Ariane 5 from Kourou in December 2022.

MTG-Jamendo

MTG-Jamendo is an open music auto-tagging dataset of over 55,000 full Creative Commons tracks from Jamendo, released by the Music Technology Group in Barcelona in 2019.

Mthandeni SK

Mthandeni SK, also known as Igcokama Elisha, is a South African Maskandi singer and songwriter, born 1988, whose crossover hits "Paris" and "Gucci" topped the national charts.

Sep 24, 2026

Mthethwa Confederacy

The Mthethwa Confederacy (uMthethwa) was a chieftaincy south of the lower Mfolozi River in KwaZulu-Natal, prominent in the early 1800s under Dingiswayo before joining Shaka's Zulu kingdom.

MTIA (Meta)

MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) is a family of custom AI accelerator chips developed by Meta Platforms since 2020, initially for its recommendation models.

Oct 22, 2026

Mtiuleti uprising

The Mtiuleti uprising (Georgian: მთიულეთის აჯანყება) was an 1804 armed rebellion by the highlanders of eastern Georgia against Russian rule, the first mass uprising against the annexation.

MTN Group

MTN Group Limited, founded in 1994 as Mobile Telephone Networks, is a South African telecom company serving 307.2 million customers across Africa and the Middle East, with its largest operations in Nigeria.

MTN South Africa

MTN South Africa is the mobile network operator of the MTN Group, providing voice, data, and 5G services to about 40.6 million subscribers since its 1994 launch.

MTOR

MTOR (mechanistic target of rapamycin, formerly mammalian target of rapamycin) is a serine/threonine kinase on chromosome 1 forming mTORC1 and mTORC2 complexes that control cell growth; rapamycin and rapalogs such as everolimus inhibit it, treating cancers and transplant rejection.

MTORC1

mTORC1 (mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1) is the rapamycin-sensitive mTOR complex integrating nutrients, growth factors, and energy to drive protein synthesis and repress autophagy; dysregulation links to cancer, diabetes, and aging.

MTorres

MTorres, also known as M. Torres Diseños Industriales, is a Spanish industrial group founded by Manuel Torres Martínez in 1975 that supplies automated drilling, riveting, and fiber-placement equipment to aerospace and paper companies.

Mtorwi

Mtorwi is a 2,961 m mountain in the Kipengere Range, on the eastern side of Kitulo National Park, Makete District, Njombe Region, Tanzania; Tanzania's 7th listed summit, reached by trail from the Nhumbe valley.

MTR

MTR (港鐵公司, MTR Corporation Limited) is Hong Kong's metro operator, running nine rail lines plus Light Rail, the 2007 KCR-merged network, and railways in Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Stockholm, Melbourne and Sydney, funded by the Rail plus Property model.

MTR Corporation

MTR Corporation is a Hong Kong railway company, founded by the government in 1975, that operates the territory's rail network and funds it through the Rail plus Property model.

MTRR

MTRR (methionine synthase reductase, cblE) is a human gene on 5p15.31 encoding an FNR-family enzyme that reactivates methionine synthase; biallelic variants cause homocystinuria-megaloblastic anemia, cblE type.

MTS Oceanos

The MTS Oceanos was a Greek-owned cruise ship that sank off Coffee Bay, South Africa, on 4 August 1991, with all 571 passengers and crew rescued in a major airlift.

MTS-128

MTS-128 is a preclinical trispecific T-cell engager targeting CD19, BCMA, and CD3 with an HSA-binding half-life extension domain, developed by METiS TechBio's NanoForge AI platform for autoimmune disease and licensed globally to Boulevard Bio for $20 million upfront plus up to $1.6 billion in milestones.