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Mask of Agamemnon
Gold funerary mask from Shaft Grave V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, found by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876; 16th-century BCE, 35 cm, Athens NM 624; the Agamemnon name is a misnomer and its authenticity is debated.
Mask of the Demon
Mask of the Demon (La maschera del demonio; The Mask of Satan; US: Black Sunday) is Mario Bava's 1960 Italian gothic horror debut, based on Gogol's "Vij", starring Barbara Steele as a revived witch and her descendant.
Mask of Tutankhamun
Mask of Tutankhamun (Carter 256a, JE 60672): solid gold funerary mask, about 10 kg, covering the pharaoh's mummy, found 1922; 2015 study rejected the reworking hypothesis; now in the Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza.
Mask of Warka
The Mask of Warka, also known as the Lady of Uruk, is a carved marble female face from Uruk, Iraq, made around 3100 BC and held in Baghdad.
Mask Off
"Mask Off" is a 2017 trap single by Future, produced by Metro Boomin for the album FUTURE, sampling Tommy Butler's "Prison Song" flute loop; it peaked at UK number 22, went RIAA gold, and inspired the #MaskOffChallenge.
Mask optimization
Mask optimization is a computational lithography method that modifies photomask patterns so the printed wafer image matches the intended design, compensating for optical proximity, resist, and process effects.
Mask R-CNN
Mask R-CNN is a deep learning framework for instance segmentation, extending Faster R-CNN with a branch that predicts a pixel-level mask for each detected object.
Mask repair
Mask repair is the set of processes for removing or compensating defects on a photomask, the patterned template that prints circuit layers onto silicon wafers in semiconductor lithography.
Mask shop
A mask shop is a facility that manufactures photomasks, high-precision stencils that carry circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers during photolithography, with merchant shops supplying 40 to 50% of demand.
Maskandi
Maskandi, also written maskanda, is a Zulu folk-popular music genre marked by fast guitar picking and blues-style vocals, developed by migrant workers in the early twentieth century.
Maskarade
Maskarade is a 1970 musical play by Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter, first produced as a teleplay in 1973 and built on the Jonkonnu masquerade tradition.
Masked autoencoder
A masked autoencoder (MAE) is a self-supervised pretraining method for neural networks that masks about 75% of an image's patches and reconstructs the missing pixels from the visible ones.
Masked generative modeling
Masked generative modeling is a method for generating images and video in which a bidirectional transformer iteratively predicts masked tokens in parallel, introduced with Google Research's MaskGIT in 2022.
Masked generative models
A masked generative model generates data by iteratively predicting randomly masked tokens of a sequence, as in MaskGIT for images, Muse for text-to-image, and MAGVIT for video.
Masked image modeling
Masked image modeling (MIM) is a self-supervised pre-training technique for computer vision where a model, usually an autoencoder, predicts masked patches of an image from visible ones.
Masked language model
A masked language model (MLM) is a neural network trained to predict words hidden from its input using both left and right context, the self-supervised method behind BERT and RoBERTa.
Masked Singer
Masked Singer is a celebrity singing competition format created by South Korea's MBC as King of Mask Singer (복면가왕) in 2015, in which masked stars are judged on voice alone; it was adapted on FOX in 2019 and licensed to dozens of countries.
Masked theatre
Masked theater is performance in which actors or dancers wear face coverings as part of the character, found in Greek drama, Japanese noh, and African masquerade.
Masked Wolf
Masked Wolf, real name Harry Michael (born 1991), is a Greek Australian rapper from Sydney. His 2019 single "Astronaut in the Ocean" went viral on TikTok, peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, and led to the 2021 mixtape Astronomical and the 2024 album The Devil Wears Prada But God Wears Gucci.
Maski Mound
Maski Mound is a multi-period archaeological settlement mound at Maski in Karnataka's Raichur district, India, best known for an Ashokan rock edict found in 1915 that names the emperor personally.
Masking tape
Masking tape, also known as painter's tape, is a pressure-sensitive paper-backed tape that sticks during painting and removes cleanly, invented by Richard Drew at 3M in 1925.
Maskless lithography
Maskless lithography is a microfabrication technique that patterns photoresist directly with digitally controlled light or electron beams, removing mask costs and design-change delays in semiconductor and microdevice fabrication.
Maskowski Rayon
Maskowski Rayon (Mascoŭski rajon; Moskovsky District) is a southwestern administrative district of Minsk, Belarus, established 8 April 1977, with over 300,000 residents, 28.8 km², and pharmaceutical and electronics industries.
Maslach Burnout Inventory
The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is a self-report questionnaire measuring occupational burnout across three dimensions, introduced by Christina Maslach and Susan E. Jackson in 1981 and used in about 90% of burnout studies.
Maslama al-Majriti
Maslama al-Majriti (مسلمة المجريطي) was an Andalusian mathematician and astronomer who worked in Cordoba under the Umayyads and founded a school of astronomy spanning three generations.
Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik
Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik (مسلمة بن عبد الملك) was an Umayyad prince and general who led the Arab siege of Constantinople in 717–718 and campaigned for about half a century.
Maslenitsa (Масленица)
Maslenitsa (Масленица), or Butter Week, is the East Slavic pre-Lenten festival of blini, effigy burning, and Forgiveness Sunday, aligned with Orthodox Cheesefare Week before Great Lent.
Masłomęcz
Masłomęcz, village in Poland's Hrubieszów Basin giving its name to a Gothic (Wielbark) archaeological group of the 2nd–4th centuries CE; 536-grave cemetery excavated 1977–2002, Scandinavian ancestry, Goths' Village museum.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Maslow's hierarchy of needs, from Abraham Maslow's 1943 "A Theory of Human Motivation", arranges five need levels from physiological to self-actualization. Empirical reviews such as Wahba and Bridwell (1976) and cross-cultural studies find the categories real but the strict sequencing unsupported.
Masmovil
Masmovil (styled MásMóvil, legally MásMóvil Ibercom) was a Spanish mobile, broadband, and television operator backed by Cinven, KKR, and Providence, combined with Orange Spain in 2024 to form MasOrange.