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Mascarene High
The Mascarene High, also called the Indian Ocean subtropical high, is a semi-permanent high-pressure area over the southern Indian Ocean that drives the Asian monsoon.
Mascarene Plateau
The Mascarene Plateau is an arcuate submerged seafloor high in the southwestern Indian Ocean, extending over 2,300 km from the Seychelles to Mauritius, with shallow banks hosting the world's largest contiguous seagrass beds.
Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich
Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich is a German family-owned mechanical engineering company in Hardheim, Baden-Württemberg, founded in 1863, best known for its 1924 counterflow mixing principle used to mix bulk materials, slurries, and sludges.
Masco Corporation
Masco Corporation is an American manufacturer of home improvement and building products, based in Livonia, Michigan and founded in 1929, whose brands include BEHR paint and Delta faucets.
Mascoma
Mascoma Corporation was an American renewable fuels company founded in Boston in 2006 to commercialize cellulosic ethanol using its Consolidated Bioprocessing technology, and was acquired by Lallemand in 2014.
Mascot
Mascot: a symbolic person, animal, or object representing a team, school, brand, or event, from French mascotte (Provençal masco, witch). Covers event marketing roles and the Native American mascot controversy.
Mascota Volcanic Field
The Mascota Volcanic Field is a volcanic field of cinder cones and lava domes near Mascota in Jalisco, western Mexico, hosting the youngest known minette lavas on Earth.
Mascots (2016 film)
Mascots (2016) is a Netflix original mockumentary comedy directed by Christopher Guest, co-written with Jim Piddock, following sports mascots competing for the Gold Fluffy at the World Mascot Association Championships; released October 13, 2016.
Mascula Tiberia
Mascula Tiberia, also called Mascula, was a Roman and Byzantine town at modern Khenchela, Algeria, at the Aurès edge; renamed Tiberia after Tiberius II when prefect Thomas walled it in 578–582.
Masculin Féminin
Masculin Féminin (1966) is Jean-Luc Godard's eleventh feature, a black-and-white portrait of 1960s Paris youth starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Chantal Goya, loosely based on two Maupassant stories and banned to under-18s in France.
Masculinity
Masculinity: socially constructed norms of manhood, plural "masculinities"; defined by absence of femininity, power relations; central theory is Connell's hegemonic masculinity; studied since the 1980s across history, sociology, and health.
Masculinization (sexual activity)
Masculinization, also known as forced masculinization or forcemasc, is a consensual BDSM practice in which a participant, often a woman, temporarily adopts a masculine role through cross-dressing and personas.
Masculinizing hormone therapy
Masculinizing hormone therapy is a gender-affirming treatment giving testosterone to transgender men and trans masculine people, inducing masculine characteristics, suppressing menstruation, and reducing dysphoria.
Masculism
Masculism (masculinism): in scholarship, the ideology of masculine superiority defending patriarchy; in activism, men's-rights advocacy descended from the 1970s men's liberation split, linked to figures such as Warren Farrell and the manosphere.
Masdar
Masdar, formally the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, is the UAE's state-owned renewable energy company, established in Abu Dhabi in 2006 and jointly owned by TAQA, Mubadala, and ADNOC.
Masdar City (مدينة مصدر)
Masdar City (مدينة مصدر) is a planned sustainable urban community and business free zone in Abu Dhabi, UAE, launched in 2006 as a $22 billion carbon-neutral city project; about 35% complete, with PRT transport, passive design, and the IRENA headquarters.
Masdevallia
Masdevallia (Ruiz & Pav., 1794) is a genus of about 656 accepted pleurothallid orchids native from Mexico to southern tropical America, known as kite orchids for triangular fused-sepal flowers, grown cool and humid in cultivation.
Masdevallia veitchiana
Masdevallia veitchiana (Veitch's masdevallia, pate de gallo) is a Peruvian orchid species published by Reichenbach in 1868, with orange flowers up to 20 cm covered in fine purple hairs; cool-growing, humidity-loving, and vulnerable in Cusco.
Mase
Mase (Mason Durrell Betha, Murda Mase, Ma$e), Harlem rapper and ordained minister, Bad Boy star whose 1997 debut Harlem World hit No. 1 and went quadruple platinum before his 1999 retirement to ministry and 2004 return Welcome Back.
Masego (musician)
Masego, stage name of Micah Davis (born 1993, Kingston, Jamaica), is a Jamaican-American saxophonist, singer, and producer behind "TrapHouseJazz," the 2017 FKJ collaboration "Tadow," the Grammy-nominated Studying Abroad: Extended Stay, and albums Lady Lady, Masego, and Fix Your Face.
Maseko Ngoni crossing
The Maseko Ngoni crossing was the Maseko branch of the Ngoni's passage across the Zambezi River at the Lupata Gorge, south of Tete, around 1839, during their migration north.
Maser
A maser is a device that amplifies or generates microwave radiation by stimulated emission, coined by Charles Townes at Columbia and the direct predecessor of the laser.
Maserati
Maserati is an Italian luxury automobile manufacturer founded in Bologna in 1914 by the Maserati brothers, now headquartered in Modena and owned by the Stellantis group.
Maserati Biturbo
The Maserati Biturbo is a two-door sports coupé Maserati produced from 1981, conceived by Alejandro de Tomaso and the first production car with a twin-turbo engine.
Maserati Ghibli
The Maserati Ghibli is an Italian nameplate used by Maserati for three cars: a 1967 grand tourer, a 1992 coupé, and a 2013 executive sedan.
Maserati Ghibli (M157)
The Maserati Ghibli (M157) is an executive sports saloon built by Maserati from 2013 to 2023 on a shortened Quattroporte platform, offered with Ferrari-built twin-turbo V6 engines.
Maserati GranTurismo
The Maserati GranTurismo is a 2+2 grand tourer from Italian manufacturer Maserati, debuted as a Pininfarina-designed V8 coupé at Geneva in 2007 and relaunched in 2023.
Maserati Levante
The Maserati Levante is a luxury SUV produced by Italian carmaker Maserati from 2016 to 2024, the brand's first SUV, unveiled at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show.
Maserati MC12
The Maserati MC12 is a limited-production mid-engined V-12 supercar built by Maserati in 2004 and 2005 to homologate its FIA GT1 racer, derived from the Ferrari Enzo.
Maserati Nettuno engine
The Maserati Nettuno, unveiled in 2020, is a 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 built by Maserati in Modena and the first road-car engine with Formula 1-style pre-chamber jet ignition.