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Massimo Tavoni
Massimo Tavoni is an Italian economist working on energy and climate change economics, director of the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment and professor at Politecnico di Milano.
Massimo Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli (1931–2014) was an Italian-born American modernist designer whose work shaped the New York City subway map and signage, the American Airlines logo, and Bloomingdale's bags.
Massimo Volpe
Massimo Volpe (born 1952) is an Italian cardiologist and Emeritus Professor of Sapienza University of Rome, known for work on hypertension, heart failure, and natriuretic peptides.
Massimo Zeviani
Massimo Zeviani is an Italian neurogeneticist known for identifying mitochondrial disease genes, and Scientific Director of the IRCCS Burlo Garofolo children's hospital in Trieste since 2022.
Massina Jihad
The Massina Jihad was an Islamic reform war launched in 1818 by the Fulani preacher Seku Amadu in the Inner Niger Delta of present-day Mali, creating a theocratic state until 1862.
Massiva
Massiva was a Numidian prince of the royal house of Masinissa, son of Gulussa, who fled to Rome after 112 BC and was assassinated there on Jugurtha's orders.
MASSIVE (dataset)
MASSIVE is a dataset of one million realistic, parallel, labeled virtual assistant utterances in 51 languages, created by Amazon researchers and released publicly for multilingual NLU evaluation.
Massive Attack
Massive Attack, the Bristol band formed in 1988 by Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall, and Andrew Vowles, pioneered trip-hop with Blue Lines (1991) and Mezzanine (1998), while rejecting the genre label.
Massive compact halo object
A massive compact halo object (MACHO) is a proposed dark, compact body such as a brown dwarf or black hole that could partly explain dark matter in the Milky Way's halo.
Massive Entertainment
Massive Entertainment, a Swedish video game studio founded in 1997 in Ronneby and based in Malmö, part of Ubisoft since 2008; creator of Snowdrop, The Division, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Star Wars Outlaws.
Massive gas injection
Massive gas injection is a tokamak disruption mitigation technique that injects neutral gas within milliseconds to terminate the plasma safely; ITER instead uses shattered pellet injection.
Massive gravity
Massive gravity is a class of modified gravity theories assigning the graviton a small nonzero mass, giving five polarizations instead of two, and dRGT is the ghost-free modern form.
Massive machine-type communications
Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is one of the three main 5G usage scenarios, covering huge numbers of connected devices that send small, delay-tolerant amounts of data.
Massive MIMO
Massive MIMO (massive multiple-input multiple-output) is a radio access technology in which a base station uses 64 or more antennas to serve multiple users simultaneously, underpinning 5G capacity gains.
Massive open online course
A massive open online course, or MOOC, is an online course open to anyone with an Internet connection, offering materials, assessment, and a certificate of completion.
Massive star formation
Massive star formation is the process by which stars heavier than about 8 solar masses assemble from interstellar gas, despite their own radiation pressure opposing infall.
Massive transfusion protocol
A massive transfusion protocol (MTP) is a standardized clinical pathway for rapidly delivering predefined quantities of blood products to patients with severe hemorrhage, such as trauma.
Massively multiplayer online game
Massively multiplayer online game (MMO, MMORPG): persistent online worlds for hundreds or thousands of simultaneous players, from MUD1 (1978) and EverQuest to World of Warcraft (12 million subscribers, ~$9.2 billion revenue); covers sharding, instancing, virtual economies, gold farming, and subscription versus free-to-play models.
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game): persistent online role-playing worlds descended from MUD1 (1978), Ultima Online, EverQuest, and World of Warcraft; known for guilds, subscription and free-to-play monetization, and client-server architectures.
Massively parallel reporter assay
A massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) is a high-throughput molecular biology method measuring the regulatory activity of thousands to hundreds of thousands of DNA sequences in a single experiment.
MassiveStudio
Massive Studios (MassiveStudio), founded 2022, is an iGaming slot studio owned by Easygo Entertainment, the parent of Stake.com, supplying exclusive high-volatility slots such as Drac's Stacks and Jawsome; distinct from Malta-licensed MVG.
MassKara Festival
MassKara Festival, Bacolod City's October 'festival of many faces', founded 1980 after a sugar crisis and the MV Don Juan sinking; smiling masks, street dance, Electric MassKara, declared a Bacolod cultural property.
Masson Island
Masson Island: ice-covered Antarctic island in the Shackleton Ice Shelf, Queen Mary Land, about 33 km long, 22 km wide, rising to 471 m; discovered by the AAE 1911-14 and named by Douglas Mawson after Sir David Orme Masson of Melbourne.
Massospora cicadina
Massospora cicadina (Peck) is an entomopathogenic fungus infecting only 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas (Magicicada). Its two-stage spore cycle, abdominal spore plugs, wing-flick host manipulation, cathinone production, and ~1.5-Gb fungal genome distinguish it.
Massoud Rajavi (مسعود رجوی)
Massoud Rajavi (مسعود رجوی) is the Iranian opposition leader of the MEK/PMOI who fought the Shah, broke with Khomeini after 1979, allied with Saddam Hussein from Iraq's Camp Ashraf, and disappeared after the 2003 US invasion.
Massoud T. Simnad
Massoud T. Simnad (1921-2002) was an Iranian-born American engineer and materials scientist who spent 25 years at General Atomics on nuclear fuels, reactors, and fusion materials, later teaching at UC San Diego.
MasSpec Pen
The MasSpec Pen is a handheld, biocompatible sampling device coupled to a mass spectrometer that distinguishes normal from cancerous tissue within roughly 10 to 20 seconds without cutting the sample.
MassPRIM
MassPRIM, formally the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, is the state agency that manages the PRIT Fund, a pooled fund holding $115.5 billion in Massachusetts public employees' retirement assets as of 2025.
Massu Engira Masilamani
Massu Engira Masilamani (Masss, மாஸ் என்கிற மாசிலாமணி) is a 2015 Tamil supernatural action comedy directed by Venkat Prabhu, starring Suriya in dual roles as a con man who sees ghosts and the ghost Shakthi, released 29 May 2015.
Massylii
The Massylii, also Massyli or Maesulians, were a Berber federation of tribes in eastern Numidia, formed in the 4th century BC and ruled by a king.