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Mu Cassiopeiae
Mu Cassiopeiae (μ Cas) is a nearby binary star in Cassiopeia whose metal-poor, high-velocity primary is an old Population II star about 12.7 billion years old.
Mu Centauri
Mu Centauri (μ Cen) is a bright Be star of spectral type B2 in the constellation Centaurus, about magnitude 3.47, ringed by a gaseous circumstellar disk.
Mu Cephei
Mu Cephei (μ Cep), known as Herschel's Garnet Star, is a deep-red semiregular variable red supergiant in Cepheus, among the largest and most luminous known.
Mu Chong
Mu Chong (무정, 武亭) was a Korean communist military leader who commanded the Korean Volunteer Army from Yan'an and was purged by Kim Il Sung in 1950.
Mu Columbae
Mu Columbae (μ Col, Mu Col) is a hot O9.5 main-sequence star in the constellation Columba, one of the fastest known runaway stars, moving at about 117 km/s.
Mu family of Yunnan
The Mu family of Yunnan (沐氏) was the hereditary military household that guarded Yunnan for the Ming dynasty, holding the General Who Pacifies the South seal in every major campaign.
Mu Geminorum
Mu Geminorum, formally named Tejat by the International Astronomical Union in 2017, is a red giant and irregular variable star of magnitude 3 in Gemini, about 230 light-years away.
Mu Jin-sung (무진성)
Mu Jin-sung (무진성, birth name Yeo Ui-joo 여의주), born 1988 in Incheon, is a South Korean actor who debuted in Two Weeks (2013) and won Best New Actor at the 58th Daejong Film Awards for Perhaps Love (2021), later known for The Tyrant, Typhoon Family, and A Bona Fide Killer.
Mu Leonis
Mu Leonis, officially named Rasalas, is an orange giant star of magnitude 3.88 in the constellation Leo, about 124 light-years away, hosting a planet found in 2014.
Mu Muzhanga
Mu Muzhanga (穆彰阿) was a Manchu statesman of the Qing dynasty who served as Grand Councillor and Grand Secretary under the Daoguang Emperor and championed peace with Britain in the Opium War.
Mu opioid receptor
The mu opioid receptor, encoded by the OPRM1 gene, is a G protein-coupled receptor that mediates both the pain relief and the adverse effects of opioids.
Mu Shiying
Mu Shiying (穆时英, 1912–1940) was a Chinese modernist novelist from Cixi, Zhejiang, leading writer of the Shanghai New Sensationist school and pioneer of urban fiction.
Mu Sigma Inc.
Mu Sigma Inc. is an analytics and decision-sciences firm founded by Dhiraj Rajaram in 2004, among India's first unicorns with a $1.5 billion valuation in 2013 and 100% founder-owned since 2022.
Mu Torere
Mū tōrere (star game, wheke game), a traditional Māori blocking board game from New Zealand for two players with four perepere each on an eight-pointed star with central pūtahi; first described in print by Elsdon Best in 1917.
Mu Ye Gui Shi (鬼吹灯之牧野诡事)
鬼吹灯之牧野诡事 (Mu Ye Gui Shi) is a 2017 iQiyi web drama adapted from Tianxia Bachang's column-turned-book, following Hu Bayi's son Hu Tian; it scored 2.8 on Douban and triggered a 1.1-million-yuan unfair-competition ruling over the 鬼吹灯 title.
Mu Ying
Mu Ying (沐英) was a Ming dynasty general, adopted son of the founding emperor, who conquered Yunnan in 1382 and governed it until his death in 1392.
Mu-Hyun Baik
Mu-Hyun Baik (백무현) is a South Korean computational chemist, professor at KAIST since 2015, known for computationally designed C–H activation catalysts and the electro-inductive effect reported in Science in 2020.
Mu-metal
Mu-metal is a soft ferromagnetic alloy of about 80% nickel with molybdenum and iron, used chiefly to shield equipment and rooms from low-frequency magnetic fields.
Mu-ming Poo
Mu-ming Poo (蒲慕明), born 1948 in Nanjing, is a neuroscientist known for discovering spike-timing-dependent plasticity and for building the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai.
Mu'allaqa of Amr ibn Kulthum
The Mu'allaqa of Amr ibn Kulthum is one of the seven pre-Islamic Arabic odes called the Mu'allaqat, a boast in praise of the tribe of Taghlib.
Mu'allaqa of Antarah
The Mu'allaqa of Antarah (معلاقة عنترة) is a celebrated pre-Islamic Arabic ode, the "Suspended Ode" of the sixth-century warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad of the tribe of 'Abs.
Mu'allaqa of Imru' al-Qays
The Mu'allaqa of Imru' al-Qays (معلقة امرئ القيس) is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode attributed to Imru' al-Qays ibn Hujr al-Kindi (died around 544 CE) that opens "Qifa nabki" and is counted among the seven celebrated Mu'allaqat.
Mu'allaqa of Labid
The Mu'allaqa of Labid (معلقة لبيد) is a pre-Islamic Arabic qaṣīdah by the poet Labid ibn Rabi'ah, one of the celebrated anthology of odes known as the Mu'allaqāt.
Mu'allaqa of Tarafa
The Mu'allaqa of Tarafa (معلقة طرفة) is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode by Tarafa ibn al-Abd, a sixth-century poet killed by the Lakhmid king Amr ibn Hind, and among the celebrated Mu'allaqat.
Mu'allaqa of Zuhayr
The Mu'allaqa of Zuhayr (معلقة زهير بن أبي سلمى) is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode by Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma commemorating the 585 peace between 'Abs and Dhubyan.
Mu'arada
Mu'arada (المعارضة) is a classical Arabic literary practice in which a poet composes a new poem matching an earlier poem's meter and rhyme, out of admiration, rivalry, or critique.
Mu'awiya I (معاوية بن أبي سفيان)
Mu'awiya I (معاوية بن أبي سفيان, Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan), founder of the Umayyad caliphate: governor of Syria, caliph 661–680, moved power to Syria, centralized finance, employed Christian officials, named son Yazid heir.
Mu'awiya ibn Amr al-Azdi
Mu'awiya ibn Amr al-Azdi (معاوية بن عمرو الأزدي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter, born in 745 and graded reliable, whose narrations appear in the Six Books.
Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj
Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj (معاوية بن حديج) was an Arab commander and statesman of the Kinda tribe who fought at Yarmuk, helped conquer Egypt, and led the Umayyad conquest of Ifriqiya.
Mu'awiya ibn Qurra
Mu'awiya ibn Qurra (معاوية بن قرة) was a trusted Basran hadith transmitter of the third tabaqa, cited by al-Bukhari and Muslim, who died in 113 AH (731 CE).