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Mutravirecaniya kvatha curna
Mutravirecaniya kvatha curna (Mūtravirecanīya Kaṣāya Cūrṇa, AFI 4:18) is an Ayurvedic coarse-powder decoction formulation, dose 48 g in divided doses, with ten plant ingredients, used traditionally as a diuretic for dysuria (mūtrakṛcchra).
Mutriku wave power plant
The Mutriku wave power plant is an oscillating water column plant in the breakwater of Mutriku harbor, Spain; operating since 2011, it was Europe's first commercial wave power plant.
Mutsu Munemitsu
Mutsu Munemitsu (陸奥宗光, 1844 to 1897) was a Japanese diplomat and statesman who served as foreign minister from 1892 to 1896 and negotiated the Treaty of Shimonoseki ending the Sino-Japanese War.
Mutsu Province
Mutsu Province (陸奥国) was an ancient province of Japan covering most of the Tohoku region, established after the Taika Reforms of 645 as the frontier of the ritsuryo state.
Mutsuhiro Watanabe (渡邊睦裕)
Mutsuhiro Watanabe (渡邊睦裕), "The Bird", Japanese Army sergeant who brutally abused POW Louis Zamperini at Ōmori and Naoetsu camps, was No. 23 on MacArthur's war criminal list, evaded prosecution, and died in 2003.
Mutsuhito Ohno
Mutsuhito Ohno (大野 睦人) is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at Kyoto University known for identifying PHAX, a mediator of U snRNA export from the nucleus.
Mutsuo Takahashi
Mutsuo Takahashi (高橋睦郎, born 15 December 1937) is a Japanese poet of free verse, haiku, and tanka known for openly homoerotic early poems; he received the Order of Culture in 2024.
Mutt (album)
Mutt is Leon Thomas's second studio album, released September 2024 on EZMNY/Motown; a 14-track neo-soul, jazz, and rock-influenced R&B record that won the 2026 Grammy for Best R&B Album.
Mutt (Leon Thomas song)
"MUTT" is a 2024 R&B song by Leon Thomas, title track of his album MUTT (EZMNY/Motown), written with Bizzy Crook and produced by D. Phelps and Freaky Rob; it peaked in the Billboard Hot 100 top 15, hit No. 1 on Radio Songs, and went double platinum.
Mutt and Jeff
Mutt and Jeff, also known as A. Mutt, is Bud Fisher's American comic strip begun November 15, 1907 in the San Francisco Chronicle, generally credited as the first successful daily comic strip, starring tall gambler Mutt and short Jeff, running until 1982 or 1983.
Muttamizh
Muttamizh (முத்தமிழ், "three Tamils") is the traditional three-fold classification of the Tamil language into iyal (literary Tamil), icai (musical Tamil), and nāṭakam (dramatic Tamil), anchored textually to the Cilappatikāram.
Muttarrif ibn Abdallah ibn al-Shikhkhir
Muttarrif ibn Abdallah ibn al-Shikhkhir (مطرف بن عبد الله بن الشخير) was a Basran Successor and trustworthy hadith narrator who died in the 860s or 870s AH.
Mutter (album)
Mutter, Rammstein's third studio album (German for "Mother"), released 2 April 2001 on Vertigo/Capitol; produced by Jacob Hellner, recorded at Studio Miraval in France, debuted at number 1 in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Muttiah Muralitharan (මුත්තයියා මුරලිදරන්)
Muttiah Muralitharan (මුත්තයියා මුරලිදරන්), Sri Lankan off-spinner, holds the all-time records of 800 Test and 534 ODI wickets; his bent-arm action, doosra legality controversy, and 1996 World Cup win defined his career.
Muttines
Muttines, also spelled Mottones or Mutines, was a Libyphoenician cavalry officer from Hippacra who commanded Carthage's Numidian horse in Sicily during the Second Punic War and defected to Rome, delivering Agrigentum to the Romans.
Muttley
Muttley is the snickering Hanna-Barbera cartoon dog created in 1968, voiced by Don Messick, sidekick of Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races and its 1969 Flying Machines spin-off. Not to be confused with his near-twin Mumbly (1976), created because of joint ownership with Heatter-Quigley.
Muttollayiram
Muttollayiram (முத்தொள்ளாயிரம்) is an ancient Tamil poem collection praising the Chera, Chola, and Pandya kings, once totaling 2,700 verses, of which only about 109 survive.
Muttu Virappa Nayak
Muttu Virappa Nayak (முத்து வீரப்ப நாயக்கர்) ruled the Madurai Nayaka kingdom in southern India from 1609 to 1623, fought on the losing side of the Vijayanagara succession war, and was succeeded by Tirumalai Nayak.
Mutual assured destruction
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a nuclear deterrence condition where two states each hold survivable retaliatory forces, making a nuclear exchange mutual suicide; defined by McNamara-era assured destruction criteria and the stability-instability paradox.
Mutual authentication
Mutual authentication, also called two-way authentication, is a procedure in which both entities in an exchange verify each other's identity, unlike unilateral authentication, which verifies only one side.
Mutual Broadcasting System
Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS, Mutual Radio), American commercial radio network 1934–1999, founded cooperatively by WOR, WGN, WLW, WXYZ; home of The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, Larry King; ended April 17, 1999.
Mutual combat
Mutual combat is a fight both parties enter by agreement. In US law it usually defeats self-defense claims; Texas gives consent a statutory assault defense, and Seattle has a city ordinance.
Mutual Defense Treaty (United States–Philippines)
The 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty binds the United States and the Philippines to respond to armed attacks in the Pacific, including the South China Sea, under Articles IV and V; it survived the 1992 U.S. base withdrawal and anchors Balikatan exercises and EDCA access.
Mutual Defense Treaty (United States–South Korea)
The U.S.–ROK Mutual Defense Treaty, signed October 1, 1953, and in force November 17, 1954, binds the United States and South Korea to mutual defense, hosts 28,500 U.S. troops, and underpins extended nuclear deterrence, including the 2023 Nuclear Consultative Group.
Mutual events of Pluto and Charon
Mutual events of Pluto and Charon were eclipses and occultations from late 1984 to late 1990. The resulting light curves mapped Pluto's surface and helped discover its atmosphere.
Mutual exclusion
Mutual exclusion is the requirement that only one thread or process at a time may execute a given code region, enforced by locks, mutexes, and semaphores.
Mutual exclusivity
Mutual exclusivity, also called disjointness, is a property of events in probability theory: mutually exclusive events cannot occur together, so their joint probability is 0 and their probabilities add.
Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio
Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, 236 U.S. 230 (1915), a unanimous Supreme Court decision by Justice McKenna, held motion pictures were a business, not press, allowing Ohio film censorship until Burstyn v. Wilson (1952).
Mutual fund
A mutual fund is an investment company that pools money from many investors to buy securities, redeeming shares daily at net asset value under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Mutual information
Mutual information, also called transinformation, is an information theory quantity measuring how much knowing one random variable reduces uncertainty about another; it is zero exactly when the variables are independent.