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Muzhe
Muzhe (慕喆, died 1095) was a Northern Song Chan monk of the Linji school, dharma heir of Cuiyan Kezhen, honored by the court with the title Zhenru.
Muziris
Muziris (Muchiri, മുച്ചിറി) was an ancient Indo-Roman pepper emporium on Kerala's Malabar coast, called India's first emporium by Pliny; its probable site is Pattanam, excavated since 2007.
Muzlifah Haniffa
Muzlifah Haniffa is a Malaysian-born dermatologist and immunologist at Newcastle University and the Wellcome Sanger Institute who maps the human immune system with single-cell genomics.
Muzolimine
Muzolimine is a pyrazolone loop diuretic, developed as BAY g 2821, that acts in the loop of Henle; introduced in Europe in 1987, it was withdrawn after two years for neurological toxicity.
Muztagh Ata
Muztagh Ata, "Father of Ice Mountains," a 7,546 m glaciated Pamir dome in Xinjiang, China; first climbed 31 July 1956 by a 31-member Sino-Soviet team via the west ridge, now a popular commercial 7,000er.
Muzzle brake
A muzzle brake, also known as a recoil brake or muzzle compensator, is a device on a gun's muzzle that redirects propellant gas to reduce recoil and muzzle flip.
Muzzle energy
Muzzle energy is the kinetic energy a projectile has at the instant it leaves the barrel, calculated from bullet weight and muzzle velocity, and expressed in foot-pounds or joules.
Muzzle velocity
Muzzle velocity, or muzzle speed, is the speed at which a projectile leaves a firearm's barrel. It fixes a bullet's initial kinetic energy and is measured with a chronograph.
Muzzle: City of Wolves
Muzzle: City of Wolves (2025) is an American action thriller sequel to Muzzle, directed by John Stalberg Jr. and starring Aaron Eckhart as ex-K-9 officer Jake Rosser, released November 14, 2025 by RLJE Films.
Muzzleloader
A muzzleloader is a firearm loaded through the open front of the barrel and fired with black powder, the standard firearm until breechloaders appeared in the late 1800s.
MV (satellite bus)
MV was a family of Soviet interplanetary spacecraft buses approved at OKB-1 in 1961, serving as the platform for early Mars and Venus probes and the Venera series.
MV Agusta
MV Agusta is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer based on Lake Varese, founded in 1945 and known for winning 75 Grand Prix world titles between 1952 and 1974.
MV Asterix
MV Asterix, also known as MS Asterix, is a Canadian naval supply ship, a converted container ship chartered to replenish Royal Canadian Navy vessels at sea.
MV Astoria
MV Astoria, also known as MS Völkerfreundschaft, was a Swedish passenger ship launched in 1946 as MS Stockholm, best known for sinking the Andrea Doria in 1956.
MV Barima
MV Barima: Guyanese state ferry (built 1939) that capsized off the Essequibo coast July 18, 2026, en route Georgetown to Port Kaituma; 73 dead, 76 rescued of ~179 aboard; subject of a Commission of Inquiry and murder charges.
MV Dali
The MV Dali is a Singapore-flagged containership that lost power and struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, collapsing it and killing six workers.
MV Derbyshire
MV Derbyshire, launched as Liverpool Bridge in 1976, was a British bulk carrier that sank with all 44 aboard in Typhoon Orchid near Okinawa in 1980, the largest British ship ever lost at sea.
MV Doña Paz
MV Doña Paz was a Philippine passenger ferry that collided with the oil tanker MT Vector in Tablas Strait in 1987, sinking with more than 4,000 dead, the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history.
MV Golden Ray
The MV Golden Ray was a 656-foot vehicle carrier that capsized near Brunswick, Georgia, in September 2019, leading to the largest wreck removal in US history.
MV Hondius
MV Hondius is a Dutch polar expedition cruise ship operated by Oceanwide Expeditions, built in Croatia in 2019 and named after the Dutch cartographer Jodocus Hondius.
MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak
MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak: 2026 Andes virus (ANDV) cluster aboard a Dutch expedition cruise ship sailing from Ushuaia; 13 cases, 3 deaths, first shipborne ANDV outbreak, declared over 2 July 2026.
MV Jernas
MV Jernas, also recorded as Jerna S, was a Bahraini general cargo ship built in 2001 that ran aground near Salalah, Oman, during Cyclone Mekunu in May 2018.
MV Princess of the Stars
MV Princess of the Stars was a Sulpicio Lines Philippine passenger ferry that capsized in the Sibuyan Sea during Typhoon Fengshen in June 2008, killing hundreds aboard.
MV Sewol (세월호)
MV Sewol, also known as MS Sewol, was a South Korean ferry that capsized and sank off Jindo County in 2014, killing 304 of 476 people aboard, including 250 students.
MV Ursa Major
The MV Ursa Major was a Russian heavy-lift cargo ship owned through the defense-linked company Oboronlogistika that sank in the Mediterranean in December 2024 after engine-room explosions.
MV Viking Sky
MV Viking Sky is a cruise ship operated by Viking Ocean Cruises, built by Fincantieri and delivered in 2017, known for a March 2019 blackout off Norway with 1,373 aboard.
MV Wakashio
The MV Wakashio was a Panamanian-flagged Capesize bulk carrier that ran aground at Pointe d'Esny, Mauritius, in July 2020, spilling roughly 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil.
MV Wakashio oil spill
MV Wakashio oil spill: 2020 grounding of a Japanese-owned, Panamanian-flagged capesize bulker off Pointe d'Esny, Mauritius; about 1,000 tonnes of Very Low Sulfur Fuel Oil spilled, the first major VLSFO spill, after a deliberate course deviation toward shore.
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
MV Wilhelm Gustloff, German KdF cruise ship launched 1937, later hospital ship and armed transport; sunk 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic during Operation Hannibal, killing about 9,343, history's deadliest single-ship sinking.
MV-algebra
An MV-algebra, short for many-valued algebra, is an algebraic structure introduced by C. C. Chang in 1958 as the algebraic semantics of Łukasiewicz infinite-valued logic.