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MV4-11

MV4-11 (MV-4-11) human leukemia cell line from a 10-year-old male with biphenotypic B-myelomonocytic leukemia; KMT2A-AFF1 fusion, FLT3-ITD, TP53 wild-type; standard FLT3-ITD AML model, ATCC CRL-9591.

MVDDS dispute

The MVDDS dispute is a regulatory and legal conflict over whether terrestrial Multichannel Video Distribution and Data Service may share the 12.2–12.7 GHz band used by satellite television.

Mvet

The Mvet is a Fang stringed instrument and its accompanying epic oral genre, performed by initiated singers across Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo, and inscribed by UNESCO in 2025.

MVM Group

MVM Group (Magyar Villamos Művek) is a wholly state-owned Hungarian energy group in Budapest, operating in electricity and natural gas across 23 countries with nearly 20,000 employees.

MVP

MVP (major vault protein, also LRP) is the main structural protein of vaults, 13 MDa barrel-shaped ribonucleoprotein particles in eukaryotic cells; it makes up over 70% of vault mass and is linked to cancer signaling and drug resistance markers.

MVP Baseball (video game series)

MVP Baseball, EA Sports' MLB-licensed baseball game series (2003-2005) from Vancouver, successor to Triple Play; known for MVP 2005's Owner Mode, Hitter's Eye, and Jon Dowd, ended when EA lost the MLB license to 2K.

MVP MMA: Rousey vs. Carano

MVP MMA: Rousey vs. Carano, also billed Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano, was a May 16, 2026 MMA event at Intuit Dome, Inglewood, on Netflix, MVP's first MMA card; Rousey won by 17-second armbar, drawing record 11.6 million U.S. viewers.

MVP Southgate

MVP Southgate is a natural gas pipeline extension of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, running about 31 miles from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to Rockingham County, North Carolina.

MVP Ventures

MVP Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Weston Moyer and Andre de Baubigny, investing in early-stage AI, hardware, and software companies.

MVS

MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) is an IBM operating system for System/370 and System/390 mainframes, first released in 1974 and continued under later names, OS/390 and today's z/OS.

MVTec AD dataset

The MVTec AD dataset is a benchmark for unsupervised anomaly detection in industrial inspection, with 5354 high-resolution images of 15 object and texture categories, introduced at CVPR 2019.

MVTec Software

MVTec Software is a Munich-based machine-vision software company, founded in 1996 as a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich and known for HALCON and MERLIC.

Mwai Kibaki

Mwai Kibaki (Emilio Mwai Kibaki), Kenya's third president (2002–2013), economist trained at Makerere and LSE, former vice president and finance minister; oversaw economic recovery, free primary education, the 2010 Constitution, and the 2007–2008 post-election crisis.

Mwala

Mwala is an electoral constituency and sub-county in Machakos County, Kenya (code 082), population 181,896 (2019), six wards, MP Vincent Musyoka (UDA); also a locality in Lusaka Province, Zambia, and a place in DR Congo.

Mwali Biosphere Reserve

Mwali Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 2020, covers all of Moheli (Mwali) island, Comoros: 66,286 ha, mostly marine, with Moheli National Park, green turtles, dugongs, and Livingstone's fruit bats.

Mwalimu Sikujua

Mwalimu Sikujua was a Swahili scribe, poet, and scholar of Mombasa who wrote down hundreds of 19th-century Swahili poems in Arabic script, most importantly the verses of Muyaka bin Haji.

Mwambutsa IV

Mwambutsa IV Bangiricenge was the mwami of Burundi from 1915 until 1966. He guided the nation through colonial periods to independence in 1962 before being deposed by his son.

Mwami

Mwami (Kinyarwanda Umwami, plural abami) is the title of the kings of Rwanda and Burundi, ruling with political, military, and sacred authority until the monarchies ended in 1961 and 1966.

Mwana FA

Mwana FA, real name Hamisi Mwinjuma, is a Tanzanian bongo flava rapper active since the mid-1990s who broke through in 2002 with Ingekuwa Vipi and has served as MP for Muheza since 2020.

Mwana Kupona binti Msham

Mwana Kupona binti Msham (c. 1810 to 1860) was a Swahili poet of Pate Island, Kenya, best known for the Utendi wa Mwana Kupona, advice to her daughter.

Mwana pwo

Mwana pwo is a carved wooden Chokwe mask representing an idealized young female ancestor, danced by male performers in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia.

Mwanga II

Mwanga II was Kabaka (king) of Buganda in East Africa, reigning 1884 to 1888 and 1889 to 1897; his 1897 rebellion against the British ended in exile, and he died in 1903.

Mwanga's Rebellion

Mwanga's Rebellion was the 1897 rising of Kabaka Mwanga II of Buganda against British rule in the Uganda Protectorate, ending with his capture and exile in 1899.

Mwanza Region

Mwanza Region (Mkoa wa Mwanza), Tanzania's second most populous region on Lake Victoria's southern shore; capital Mwanza city; established 1963, 3.99 million people in 2024, Sukuma heartland, cotton and gold economy.

Mwari cult

The Mwari cult, also called uMwari or Mwali, is a religious institution of Zimbabwe's Matobo Hills, centered on oracular shrines where the high god Mwari is consulted for rain and healing.

Mwaro Province

Mwaro Province, a former province of Burundi created in 1998 from Muramvya and opened officially in 1999, with capital Mwaro town; six communes, Kirimiro and Mugamba regions, coffee and tea crops; merged into Gitega province in July 2025.

Mwata Yamvo

Mwata Yamvo, also rendered Mwaant Yaav or Mwant Yav, is the title of the supreme ruler of the Lunda people, monarch of the Lunda Empire from about 1665 to 1887.

MWC 349

MWC 349 is a peculiar hot B[e] emission-line star in the constellation Cygnus, best known as the brightest source of strongly masing hydrogen radio recombination lines.

MWC 758

MWC 758, also cataloged as HD 36112, is a young Herbig Ae star about 160 parsecs away in Taurus, whose disk has two spiral arms sculpted by a giant protoplanet.

MWD

MWD is a casino in Tha Sai Luat, Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand, near the Myanmar border (OSM node 6028657087; 16.70465 N, 98.49633 E), close to Hengsheng Royal, Star Complex, and Lion Complex casinos.