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M Dot R

M Dot R (Moses McGeorge), English rapper from the Isle of Sheppey blending grime and dancehall in Patois; viral November 2023 single "Turn Red", signed to Sony Music.

M Lamar

M. Lamar, born 1984 in Mobile, Alabama, is an American composer and countertenor, twin brother of Laverne Cox, known for Negrogothic works spanning opera, metal, and performance art.

M People

M People: English house/dance-pop band formed 1990 in Manchester by Mike Pickering, Heather Small, and Paul Heard; won the 1994 Mercury Prize for Elegant Slumming and BRIT Best British Dance Act 1994 and 1995.

M Rhyan Puno

M Rhyan Puno (Marc Rhyan Anthony Puno) is an American structural biologist known for 2018 structures of the RNA exosome and the discovery that YTHDC2 is essential for meiosis.

M to the B

M to the B, also known as Millie B (Soph Aspin Send), is a diss track from the mid-2010s Blackpool grime scene. It was released on December 4, 2016.

M Venture Partners

M Venture Partners is a Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Mayank Parekh and Joachim Ackermann, investing in B2B startups across Southeast Asia and India.

M_nus

M_nus, also written M-nus, is a minimal techno record label founded by Richie Hawtin in Windsor, Ontario, in 1998, later based in Berlin and home to artists including Magda and Troy Pierce.

M-07e

M-07e (MO7e, Mo7e) is a human acute megakaryoblastic leukemia cell line, DSMZ ACC 104, established in 1987 from a 6-month-old girl; it is an IL-3/GM-CSF-dependent subline of M-07 used in cytokine and BCR-ABL studies.

M-102 (Michigan highway)

M-102, known as Eight Mile Road, is a 20.7-mile east–west state highway in Michigan that forms the northern boundary of Detroit between Clarenceville and Harper Woods.

M-1095

M-1095 (sonelokimab, formerly ALX-0761) is a trivalent camelid nanobody inhibiting IL-17A and IL-17F with an albumin-binding domain, developed by MoonLake for psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and hidradenitis suppurativa.

M-63 Plamen

The M-63 Plamen, Yugoslavia's first domestically developed multiple rocket launcher, was a towed 32-tube system firing 128 mm unguided rockets, with a prototype ordered in 1963.

M-80 (explosive)

The M-80 is an illegal firecracker-type explosive in the United States: a red cardboard cylinder with roughly 3 grams of flash powder, federally banned since 1966.

M-84

The M-84 is a Yugoslav main battle tank, a licensed version of the Soviet T-72 with a domestic fire-control system, built from 1983 in Slavonski Brod, Croatia.

M-Blocks

M-Blocks are cubic self-reconfiguring robots developed at MIT's CSAIL, first proposed by John Romanishin in 2011. Each cube spins an internal flywheel to roll, flip, and climb, with magnets letting cubes attach to each other.

m-Cresol

m-Cresol, also called 3-methylphenol, is a cresol isomer, a colorless liquid with a sweet tarry odor used mainly as an intermediate for synthetic vitamin E.

M-DISC

M-DISC, also known as the Millennial Disc or M-Disk, is an archival recordable optical disc from Millenniata of Utah, using an inorganic layer rated to last over 1,000 years.

M-estimation

M-estimation is a class of statistical estimators defined by minimizing a sum of an objective function over the data, generalizing maximum likelihood and least squares to estimate parameters robustly despite outliers.

M-estimator

An M-estimator is a statistical estimator defined as the minimizer of a sum of an objective function over the data, generalizing maximum likelihood and least squares.

M-factor

M-factor is the farnesylated, carboxyl-methylated nonapeptide mating pheromone of fission yeast M cells, encoded by mfm1-3, secreted via Mam1, and sensed by the Map3 receptor on P-cells.

M-Flo

M-flo (エム-フロウ) is a Japanese hip-hop and electronic group formed in 1998 by ☆Taku Takahashi and VERBAL with vocalist LISA; known for the tripod e.p. debut, the 800,000-selling EXPO EXPO, the 41-artist m-flo loves series, and the 2026 album SUPERLIMINAL.

M-fluorobenzylguanidine

M-fluorobenzylguanidine (MFBG, florbenguane F 18, IRP 101) is an investigational fluorine-18 PET tracer, a norepinephrine analog taken up via hNET, studied for neuroblastoma, pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma, and cardiac sympathetic imaging, outperforming 123I-MIBG.

M-Hero

M-Hero (猛士, Mengshi) is a luxury electric off-road brand of Chinese state-owned automaker Dongfeng Motor, launched in 2022 with the M-Hero 917 as its first model.

M-Machine (computer)

The M-Machine was an experimental multicomputer designed at MIT and later at Stanford to test architectural concepts; its MAP chip combined VLIW-style instruction issue with zero-overhead hardware multithreading across clustered 64-bit cores.

M-matrix

An M-matrix is a real square matrix with nonpositive off-diagonal entries and nonnegative principal minors, named for Minkowski and used in numerical analysis, economics, and probability.

M-Net

M-Net (Electronic Media Network) is South Africa's first private subscription television channel, launched in October 1986 by a newspaper consortium led by Naspers; it later spawned MultiChoice and DStv.

M-of-N detection

M-of-N detection, also called binary integration, is a radar and sonar decision rule declaring a target only when at least M of N updates contain detections.

M-Pesa

M-Pesa is a mobile money service run by Safaricom, launched in Kenya in 2007. It allows users to hold e-money, which is backed by commercial bank trust accounts.

M-Phenylenediamine

M-Phenylenediamine, also called benzene-1,3-diamine, is an aromatic diamine in which a benzene ring carries amino groups at positions 1 and 3, best known as the monomer of Nomex.

M-SHORAD

M-SHORAD, officially the SGT Stout since 2024, is a US Army air defense system mounting guns, missiles, rockets, and sensors on Stryker A1 vehicles to protect maneuvering forces.

M-Sport

M-Sport is a British motorsport engineering company and racing team founded by former rally driver Malcolm Wilson in 1979, based at Dovenby Hall in Cumbria, and operating Ford's World Rally Championship team since 1997.