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Manipulability (robotics)
Manipulability in robotics is a configuration-dependent scalar measure of a manipulator's ability to move its end-effector, introduced by Tsuneo Yoshikawa and computed from the Jacobian matrix.
Manipulation (psychology)
Psychological manipulation is social influence that changes behavior or perception through deceptive, underhanded tactics, distinct from persuasion and coercion; gaslighting, its best-studied form, makes victims doubt their own reality.
Manipulation rummy
Manipulation rummy, also called Robbers' Rummy, Machiavelli, Carousel, Vatikan or Shanghai, is a rummy family where table melds may be rearranged if at least one new card is added; Rummikub is its tile version.
Manipur
Manipur is a northeastern Indian state, capital Imphal, area 22,327 sq km, bordering Myanmar (352 km). Known as the birthplace of polo, site of Loktak Lake, and scene of the 2023 Meitei–Kuki-Zo ethnic conflict.
Manipur kingdom
The Manipur kingdom (ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯀꯡꯂꯣꯟ) was a Meitei kingdom in northeastern India, ruled by the Ningthouja dynasty from 33 AD until its merger with India in 1949.
Manipura
Manipura, also called the navel chakra or solar plexus chakra, is the third chakra in Hindu tantric and hatha yoga systems, associated with the digestive fire.
Manipuri Raas Leela
Manipuri Raas Leela, also called Raslila, is Manipur's classical Vaishnava dance-drama of Krishna, Radha, and the gopis, codified by King Bhagyachandra (first Maha Raas 1779), performed in five forms without ankle bells, with pung drum and Nata Sankirtana music.
Maniram Dewan
Maniram Dewan (মনিৰাম দেৱান) was an Assamese courtier and tea planter, the first Indian to grow tea commercially in Assam, hanged by the British in 1858.
Manis mysteria
Manis mysteria, the Asian mysterious pangolin, is a pangolin species named in 2023 from genomic analysis of confiscated scales; the ninth pangolin and fifth Asian species, known only from scales, diverged about 5.05 Mya from the Malayan and Philippine pangolin lineage.
Manis pentadactyla
Manis pentadactyla, the Chinese pangolin (Linnaeus, 1758), is a Critically Endangered, nocturnal, burrowing Asian pangolin eating ants and termites, threatened by trafficking for scales and meat.
Manis tricuspis
Manis tricuspis, the tree pangolin or white-bellied pangolin (valid name Phataginus tricuspis), is a small West and Central African pangolin with three-cusped scales, CITES Appendix II listing, and IUCN Vulnerable status since 2014.
Manisa (district)
Manisa, historically Saruhan, is a Turkish province in the Aegean Region of western Anatolia between Mount Spil and the Gediz River, administered in 17 districts.
Manisa relief
The Manisa relief, also called Taş Suret, is a monumental Hittite rock carving of a seated figure on Mount Sipylus near Manisa, Turkey, dated to the 13th century BCE.
Manischewitz
Manischewitz, American kosher food brand founded 1888 in Cincinnati by Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz; food side owned by Kayco since 2019, wine brand licensed separately and owned by Gallo since 2021.
Manish Arora
Manish Arora is an environmental epidemiologist at Mount Sinai known for using baby teeth to reconstruct early-life chemical exposure, winning a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.
Manish Chhowalla
Manish Chhowalla is a materials scientist known for work on atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides; he has been Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at Cambridge since 2018.
Manish Dayal
Manish Dayal (born Manish Sudhir Patel, 1983) is an American actor from Orangeburg, South Carolina, known for Raj Kher on 90210, Hassan Kadam in The Hundred-Foot Journey, Jeet in Viceroy's House, and Dr. Devon Pravesh on The Resident.
Manish Jaiswal
Manish Jaiswal is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented the Hazaribagh constituency of Jharkhand in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Manish Kejriwal
Manish Kejriwal is an Indian private equity investor, founder and managing partner of Kedaara Capital, a Mumbai-based firm he co-founded in 2011 after leading Temasek Holdings' India office.
Manish Kumar
Manish Kumar is an environmental engineer and associate professor at UT Austin known for artificial water channels and biomimetic membranes, including a 2019 Nature Nanotechnology study of fast, selective water permeation.
Manish Makhija
Manish Makhija, also spelled Munish Makhija (born 1968, Delhi), Indian video jockey known as the Haryanvi character Udham Singh on Channel V and as cabbie Munna on UTV Bindass's Cash Cab; married to, and later divorced from, Pooja Bhatt.
Manish Malhotra (मनीष मल्होत्रा)
Manish Malhotra (मनीष मल्होत्रा), Indian fashion designer and Bollywood costume stylist; debut Swarg (1990), first Filmfare Best Costume Design for Rangeela (1995), founded House of Manish Malhotra in 2005, Met Gala debut 2025.
Manish Pandey (मनीष कृष्णानंद पांडे)
Manish Krishnanand Pandey (मनीष कृष्णानंद पांडे), Indian right-handed middle-order batter born 1989 in Nainital; first Indian to score an IPL century (114, 2009), Karnataka stalwart, 29 ODIs and 39 T20Is for India, KKR IPL titles 2014 and 2024.
Manish S. Shah
Manish Suresh Shah, born 1972 in New York, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, nominated by Barack Obama and confirmed 95 to 0 in 2014.
Manish Shrivastava
Manish Shrivastava is a computer scientist in natural language processing, an Associate Professor at IIIT Hyderabad since 2014 whose research covers machine translation and Indian languages.
Manish Singhal
Manish Singhal is an Indian venture capitalist and founding partner of pi Ventures, a Bengaluru early-stage fund focused on artificial intelligence and deep technology, founded in 2016.
Manish Sisodia (मनीष सिसोदिया)
Manish Sisodia (मनीष सिसोदिया), Aam Aadmi Party co-founder and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister 2015–2023, architect of the Delhi education model; arrested in the excise policy case in 2023, granted bail in 2024 and discharged in 2026; now AAP Punjab in-charge.
Manish Tewari (मनीष तिवारी)
Manish Tewari (मनीष तिवारी), Congress lawyer-author and three-term Lok Sabha MP, now from Chandigarh after Ludhiana and Anandpur Sahib; Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting 2012–2014; anti-defection law reformer.
Manisha Koirala (मनीषा कोइराला)
Manisha Koirala (मनीषा कोइराला), born 1970 in Kathmandu, is a Nepalese actress of Hindi, Tamil, and Nepali cinema, known for Saudagar, Dil Se.., Company, her ovarian cancer recovery, Sanju, and Heeramandi.
Manisha Koirala filmography
Manisha Koirala filmography: screen credits of the Nepali actress (born 1970) from Pheri Bhetaula (1989) and Saudagar (1991) through Bombay, Dil Se, Company, her 2017 comeback, and Heeramandi.