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Mwea Irrigation Scheme

The Mwea Irrigation Scheme is Kenya's largest public rice irrigation scheme, a 30,600-acre paddy project in Kirinyaga County established in 1954 that supplies over 80% of Kenya's rice, fed by the Thiba and Nyamindi rivers.

Mwendo

Mwendo is an Angolan mancala-style sowing board game of the Luenda and Bunda peoples, played by any number of players on a 4x4-16 perimeter board; hole ownership follows the counters, and capturing all opponent holes wins.

Mwene

Mwene (Мвене) is a populated place in Sandoa territory, Lualaba Province, DR Congo, at 9°49′S 22°52′E, elevation about 908 m, GeoNames population 295,683, roughly 1,033 km southeast of Kinshasa near the Angolan border.

Mwene-Ditu

Mwene-Ditu, a railway city in Lomami Province, central DR Congo, in Luilu district at about 959 m elevation; city population estimates range from about 189,000 to over 250,000, with a large central market and RN1 road rehabilitation.

Mweru

Lake Mweru, a Zambia-DRC border lake in the Congo basin fed by the Luapula River; major inland fishery, endemic cichlid radiation, and the new Luapula River and Lake Mweru Authority. Distinct from Lake Mweru Wantipa.

Mweru wa Ntipa

Mweru wa Ntipa (Mweru Wantipa) is a shallow lake and 490,000 ha Ramsar wetland in Northern Province, Zambia, designated 2007, with over 390 bird species and a drying, encroached ecosystem.

Mweso

Mweso, also called Omweso, is Uganda's traditional four-row mancala game: 32 holes, 64 empiki seeds, re-entrant capture, reverse-capture rule, related to Igisoro in Rwanda.

Mwezi IV Gisabo

Mwezi IV Gisabo, born around 1840 and son of King Ntare IV, was Mwami (king) of Burundi for roughly half a century until his death in 1908, resisting then accommodating the German conquest.

Mwigulu Nchemba

Mwigulu Nchemba, born 1975, in Iramba District, is a Tanzanian CCM politician serving as Prime Minister of Tanzania and MP for Iramba West since 2010.

Mwindo Fossae

Mwindo Fossae, a 406-km fossa system on Pluto in Hayabusa Terra, IAU-named May 30, 2019 for the Nyanga underworld-journey hero Mwindo; a Sputnik-azimuthal extensional fracture set converging to a nexus.

MWN101

MWN101 is a once-weekly injectable GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon triple agonist from China's Shanghai Minwei Biotechnology, in phase 2 trials for obesity and type 2 diabetes.

MWR InfoSecurity

MWR InfoSecurity was a British cybersecurity consultancy founded in 2003 and headquartered in Basingstoke, England, offering threat hunting and phishing protection; Finland's F-Secure acquired it in 2018 for up to £105 million.

Mx (title)

Mx is a gender-neutral English honorific before a surname, an alternative to Mr, Ms, Mrs, Miss; first printed 1977, added to the OED in 2015 and Merriam-Webster in 2016.

Mx Blouse

Mx Blouse is the professional name of Sandiso Ngubane, a non-binary South African rapper based in Johannesburg, born in Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal, known for blending rap, R&B, kwaito, and jazz.

MX Player

MX Player is an Indian video player and free ad-supported streaming service created by J2 Interactive in 2011, bought by Times Internet in 2018 for $140 million, then acquired by Amazon; it is now being unified into Prime Video.

MX record

An MX (mail exchange) record is a DNS record that maps a domain name to mail servers that accept its email, ranked by a 16-bit preference value.

MX vs. ATV

MX vs. ATV: off-road racing game series by Rainbow Studios combining motocross bikes and ATVs, from Unleashed (2005) through Reflex (2009), All Out (2018), and Legends (2022), published by THQ and THQ Nordic.

MX3D bridge

The MX3D Bridge is a stainless steel pedestrian bridge over the Oudezijds Achterburgwal canal in Amsterdam, installed in July 2021 and described as the world's first 3D-printed steel bridge.

MXene

MXenes are a family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides, first synthesized in 2011 at Drexel University by etching aluminum from MAX phase precursors.

MXene (Ti3C2Tx) hydrogen evolution catalysis

MXene hydrogen evolution catalysis uses the titanium carbide Ti3C2Tx as an electrocatalyst or catalyst support for the hydrogen evolution reaction, the cathodic half of water splitting.

MXene antennas and EMI shielding

MXene antennas and EMI shielding are radio-frequency applications of MXenes, 2D transition-metal carbides first synthesized in 2011 at Drexel University as an alternative to graphene.

MXene conductive hydrogels

MXene conductive hydrogels are soft, water-swollen polymer networks embedded with conductive MXene nanosheets, most often Ti₃C₂Tₓ, pairing hydrogel flexibility and biocompatibility with metallic conductivity for wearable and biomedical sensors.

MXene plasmonics

MXene plasmonics is the study and use of MXenes, two-dimensional transition-metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides discovered in 2011, as plasmonic materials spanning ultraviolet to microwave wavelengths.

MXenes

MXenes are a family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides first produced at Drexel University in 2011, applied in energy storage, shielding, and water purification.

MxM TV

MxM TV, formerly MxM Collection, is a professional wrestling stable of Mason Madden, Mansoor, Johnny TV, and Taya Valkyrie known for a comedy-driven, model-themed act.

Mxmtoon

Mxmtoon is the stage name of Maia, an American singer-songwriter born in 2000 in Oakland, California, known for ukulele-based bedroom pop and the viral 2019 single "prom dress".

MxPx

MxPx, originally called Magnified Plaid, is an American punk rock band formed in 1992 in Bremerton, Washington, known for the gold album Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo.

My 21st Century Symphony (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)

My 21st Century Symphony (Live at the Royal Albert Hall) is RAYE's 2023 live album, recorded 26 September 2023 with the Heritage Orchestra, Flames Collective, and Anna Lapwood, reworking her debut My 21st Century Blues.

My 600-lb Life

My 600-lb Life: American TLC reality series (2012–2025) following people over 600 pounds seeking bariatric surgery with Houston surgeon Younan "Dr. Now" Nowzaradan; produced by Megalomedia, with Where Are They Now? spin-off and later litigation.

My Absolute Boyfriend (절대 그이)

My Absolute Boyfriend (절대 그이) is a 2019 SBS Korean drama, third adaptation of Yuu Watase's manga Zettai Kareshi, starring Yeo Jin-goo, Bang Min-ah, and Hong Jong-hyun; 36 episodes, May 15 to July 11, 2019.