All articles starting with M

Majorite

Majorite is a high-pressure garnet-group mineral in which silicon enters octahedral sites, occurring in the mantle transition zone and in shocked meteorites; it was named for Alan Major.

Majority: more than half of a total (over 50%), in elections the absolute majority, distinct from plurality (relative majority) and qualified majority; also the age of legal adulthood; central to majority rule, May's theorem, and majoritarian electoral systems.

Majority judgment

Majority judgment (jugement majoritaire), a graded voting method by Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki: voters assign verbal grades to every candidate and the highest median grade wins; strategy-resistant, avoids Arrow and Condorcet paradoxes, tested in French presidential elections.

Majority rule

Majority rule: the voting rule adopting any alternative supported by more than half of votes cast. Also known as simple majority. Distinguished by May's theorem, Condorcet's jury theorem and paradox, and the supermajority debate over minority protection.

Majority Rule Day

Majority Rule Day is a public holiday in the Bahamas observed on January 10, marking the 1967 election that ended white minority rule and first brought the Black majority to power.

Majority voting

Majority voting is a fault-tolerance technique in which three or more redundant units perform the same computation, and a voter outputs the value most of them agree on, masking any faulty minority.

Majorization

Majorization is a partial order on real vectors, introduced by Hardy, Littlewood, and Pólya, that formalizes one vector being more spread out, or less random, than another.

Majorization and entropy ordering of quantum states

Majorization is a preorder on probability vectors and quantum state spectra that formalizes when one distribution is more disordered, and by Nielsen's theorem it fully determines LOCC conversion of bipartite pure states.

Májovci

Májovci, the May school, were a Czech literary group of the late 19th century, named after Mácha's poem Máj and led by Jan Neruda, Vítězslav Hálek, and Karolina Světlá.

Majrooh Sultanpuri (مجروح سلطان پوری)

Majrooh Sultanpuri (مجروح سلطان پوری), born Asrar ul Hassan Khan (1919–2000), was an Urdu ghazal poet and Hindi film lyricist of the Progressive Writers' Movement; debut Shahjahan 1946, over 2,000 songs, Filmfare 1965, first lyricist to win the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1993).

Majuba power station

Majuba power station is a coal-fired power station owned by Eskom in Mpumalanga, South Africa. With six units and 4,110 MW capacity, it is Eskom's second largest plant.

Majulah Singapura

Majulah Singapura ("Onward Singapore") is the national anthem of Singapore, written and composed by Zubir Said in 1958 for the City Council and adopted 3 December 1959; Malay lyrics, Phoon Yew Tien's 2001 F-major arrangement, motto on the coat of arms.

Majuli (মাজুলী)

Majuli (মাজুলী), the world's largest inhabited river island in the Brahmaputra, Assam, India; a cultural landscape of Satras formed by a 1750 flood, losing half its area to erosion.

Oct 20, 2026

Majun Ushba

买朱尼吾西拜 (Majun Ushba) is a classical Uyghur honey electuary from the Qarabadin-e Azam, listed in China's second batch of ancient classic formulas, traditionally for abnormal spleen and phlegm humors, now developed for urinary tract infection.

Majuro

Majuro (Mājro) is a coral atoll in the central Pacific Ocean and the location of the capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, its most populated atoll.

Majutsu o Kiwamete Tabi ni Deta Tensei Elf, Moteamashita Jumyō de Ikeru Densetsu to Naru

Japanese web novel series by Monshō Sakakibara (魔術を極めて旅に出た転生エルフ、持て余した寿命で生ける伝説となる) on Kakuyomu; man reincarnated as elf Liese with a 1,000-year lifespan; one Grast Novels volume, kanco manga, Studio Palette anime announced for 2027.

Maka (TV series)

Maka is a Philippine youth-oriented teen drama with musical elements produced by GMA Public Affairs, premiering September 21, 2024 on GMA. Directed by Rod Marmol, it stars Romnick Sarmenta and Sparkle talents at a school for the arts.

Makaan

Makaan (मकान, "House") is a 1976 Hindi novel by Shrilal Shukla, the satirist best known for Raag Darbari, following a sitar player's search for a house.

Makai Lemon

Makai Lemon, Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver (USC Trojans), 2026 NFL Draft first-round pick (20th overall), 2025 Biletnikoff Award winner; slot receiver with 79 catches, 1,156 yards, 13 TDs in 2025.

Makale

Makale, from the Arabic maqāla, is a Turkish expository article written to inform and prove a proposition; the first example is Şinasi's preface to Tercüman-ı Ahval in 1860.

Makalu (मकालु)

Makalu (मकालु), also called Makalu I in the Mahalangur Himal, is the world's fifth-highest mountain (8,463 or 8,485 m) on the Nepal–Tibet border about 20 km east of Everest, first climbed 15 May 1955 by Terray and Couzy.

Oct 21, 2026

Makamba Province

Makamba Province, former southernmost province of Burundi (capital Makamba town), bordering Tanzania and Lake Tanganyika; 1,959.60 km², six communes, 428,917 residents in 2008; merged into Burunga Province in 2025.

Makan Nasiri

Makan Nasiri (ماکان نصیری), born c. 2019, was a seven-year-old Iranian first-grader killed in the February 28, 2026 US strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab; the only victim whose remains were never recovered.

Makanakaishe Charamba

Makanakaishe Charamba, Zimbabwean 200m sprinter born 2001 in Harare, Auburn University NCAA 4x100m champion, Paris 2024 Olympic finalist (8th), personal best 19.88 seconds.

Oct 21, 2026

Makapuu Beach Park

Makapuu Beach Park (Makapuʻu Beach Park), Windward Coast Oahu, Hawaii, at the island's easternmost point below Makapuu Lighthouse; a sea-cliff-backed pocket beach famed for expert bodysurfing, dangerous shorebreak, and winter whale watching.

Makar Sankranti (मकर संक्रांति)

Makar Sankranti, also known as Makara Sankranti (मकर संक्रांति), is a Hindu harvest festival marking the Sun's entry into Capricorn, celebrated on 14 January across India and Nepal.

Makar Yekmalyan

Makar Yekmalyan (Մակար Եկմալյան, 1856–1905) was an Armenian composer, choral conductor, and teacher. His polyphonic Divine Liturgy, officially adopted in 1895, is still the most performed setting in Armenian churches.

Makaraba Oil and Gas Field

Makaraba Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil and gas field in Nigeria's western Niger Delta, discovered in 1973 and operated by Chevron Nigeria Limited.

Oct 21, 2026

Makaradhvaja

Makaradhvaja (Makaradhwaja, Makardhwaj) is an Ayurvedic Kupipakwa Rasayana of gold, mercury, and sulfur, first named in Rasaratnakara; chiefly red mercury sulfide (alpha-HgS) with trace gold, used as a Rasayana and aphrodisiac.