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Markaz Bilbays
Markaz Bilbays (مركز بلبيس), also Bilbeis or Belbeis, is a markaz (second-order district) of Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, on the eastern Nile Delta edge, seat at 30.41525 N, 31.53786 E, population about 815,000 (2017 census), centered on the ancient fortress city of Bilbeis.
Markaz Naj‘ Ḩammādī
Markaz Naj' Hammadi (مركز نجع حمادي), an administrative center in Qena Governorate, Egypt, on the Nile; separate markaz since 1896, home to the Egypt Aluminum complex, a 19th-century sugar factory, and Prince Youssef Kamal's palace.
Markazi Province
Markazi Province (استان مرکزی) is a central Iranian province with capital Arak, area 29,108 km², 1,413,959 residents (2011 census), and a major industrial hub with Arak and Saveh.
Markbygden wind farm
Markbygden wind farm, also marketed as Markbygden 1101, is a large onshore wind complex near Piteå in northern Sweden, planned for up to 1,101 turbines and about 4,000 MW of capacity.
Markdown
Markdown is a plain text format for structured documents, created by John Gruber with Aaron Swartz in 2004 and used widely on sites like GitHub.
Marked for Death
Marked for Death (1990) is a Steven Seagal action film directed by Dwight H. Little, in which retired DEA agent John Hatcher fights Jamaican drug lord Screwface; a $12 million Fox release that grossed about $46 million domestically.
Marked Men: Rule + Shaw
Marked Men: Rule + Shaw is a 2025 American romantic drama directed by Nick Cassavetes, adapted from Jay Crownover's novel Rule; it stars Chase Stokes and Sydney Taylor, released January 22, 2025, streaming on Hulu in the US.
Marked Woman
Marked Woman is a 1937 Warner Bros. crime drama directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, loosely based on the Lucky Luciano vice trial, with prostitutes recast as nightclub hostesses under the Production Code.
MarkeDroid
MarkeDroid is an Estonian cleantech startup founded in Tallinn in 2023 by Toomas Teesaar and Toomas Kärner, whose AI platform turns distributed energy resources into a virtual power plant.
Markel
Markel Group Inc. is an American holding company built around specialty insurance for risks standard carriers decline, a roughly $37 billion investment portfolio, and Markel Ventures, its collection of operating businesses.
Markel Bell
Markel Bell, born 2004, is a 6'9", 346-lb offensive tackle from Cleveland, Mississippi; a JUCO-to-Miami riser drafted 68th overall by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2026.
Markelle Fultz
Markelle Fultz, born 1998, American NBA guard, first overall pick of the 2017 draft by Philadelphia after one Washington season; shoulder (thoracic outlet syndrome) and knee injuries derailed his career, later Orlando, Sacramento, Toronto.
Marker (unmanned ground vehicle)
Marker (Маркер) is a Russian multifunctional unmanned ground vehicle developed from 2018 by NPO Androidnaya Tekhnika as a testbed for autonomous navigation and other robot technologies.
Marker pen
A marker pen, also called a felt-tip pen or texta, is a pen with a porous fiber tip that draws ink from an internal reservoir by capillary action.
Marker-assisted selection
Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a breeding method that selects plants or animals by DNA markers linked to desirable trait genes rather than phenotype, cutting rice breeding from 7–8 years to about three.
Markerless motion capture
Markerless motion capture is a computer vision method that estimates body pose and movement from ordinary video without markers, producing 2D keypoints, 3D skeletal coordinates, and joint angles.
Markermeer & IJmeer
Markermeer & IJmeer: shallow freshwater lakes in the central Netherlands, created in 1976 by the 26 km Houtribdijk; IJmeer is the southern part. Natura 2000 and Ramsar site 1245, 68,463 ha, turbid silt bed, Marker Wadden restoration.
Market (economics)
In economics, a market is an institution where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services, usually using money, and this exchange leads to the formation of prices.
Market analysis
Market analysis, also called a market study, is the systematic examination of a market's size, value, and trends, interpreting data to show where a market is going.
Market anomaly
A market anomaly is a persistent pattern in average asset returns that an accepted asset-pricing model, originally the CAPM, apparently cannot explain; hundreds have been documented.
Market Basket (New England)
Market Basket, also known as DeMoulas Market Basket, is a family-owned supermarket chain of about 90 stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island, founded in 1917.
Market basket analysis
Market basket analysis, also called basket analysis, is a data mining method that finds which items are bought together in customer transactions, formulated in 1993.
Market Building
Market Building: a purpose-built, usually roofed civic structure housing market stalls. Named examples include the Grade I Penzance Market Building (1837, Harris of Bristol) and the Grade II Covent Garden Market Building (1828-30, Charles Fowler).
Market capitalization
Market capitalization, or market cap, is the total value a stock market assigns to a company's equity, calculated as the share price multiplied by shares outstanding.
Market clearing model
The market clearing model is an economic model in which prices adjust so that no good is in excess demand, producing equilibrium prices and the quantities traded at them.
Market design
Market design is the branch of economics that engineers the rules of actual marketplaces when prices alone cannot, as in the medical Match, kidney exchange, and FCC spectrum auctions.
Market economy
A market economy, also called a market-oriented economy, is an economic system where private individuals and firms make production and investment decisions coordinated by prices.
Market environment
Market environment, also called the business environment, is the set of actors and forces outside a firm's marketing function that affect its ability to build and maintain successful customer relationships.
Market Exchange Bureau
The Market Exchange Bureau (市易务) was a Song dynasty state agency that bought unsold goods, stabilized prices, and lent money to merchants, founded under Wang Anshi's reforms.
Market Exchange Law
The Market Exchange Law (市易法) was a Song dynasty statute of Wang Anshi's New Policies that set up government bureaus to trade goods and lend to merchants.