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Mastanesosus
Mastanesosus, also called Sosus, was a king of Mauretania in North Africa who reigned from about 80 to 49 BC, between Bocchus I and Bocchus II.
Mastani (मस्तानी)
Mastani (मस्तानी), consort or second wife of Peshwa Bajirao I, likely daughter of Chhatrasal of Bundelkhand; mother of Shamsher Bahadur, ancestor of the Nawabs of Banda; tomb at Pabal.
Mastcam
Mastcam (Mast Camera) is the pair of mast-mounted color cameras that serve as the main scientific eyes of NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed in Gale crater in 2012.
Mastcam-Z
Mastcam-Z, short for Mast Camera Zoom, is a pair of zoomable, multispectral, stereoscopic cameras on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which landed in Jezero crater in February 2021.
MasTec
MasTec, Inc. is a North American infrastructure engineering and construction company headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, formed in 1994 and listed on the NYSE, with 2024 revenue of $12.3 billion.
Mastectomy
Mastectomy: surgery removing the entire breast, including tissue, nipple, areola, and skin, to treat or prevent breast cancer. Types include total, modified radical, radical, skin-sparing, and nipple-sparing; survival equals breast-conserving surgery for early disease.
Master (2016 film)
Master (마스터, Ma-seu-teo) is a 2016 South Korean crime-action film by Cho Ui-seok starring Lee Byung-hun, Gang Dong-won, and Kim Woo-bin, about a fraud investigation of One Network inspired by the Cho Hee-pal pyramid-scheme case; it drew 7.15 million admissions.
Master (form of address)
Master (form of address): English honorific for boys too young to be called Mister; from Latin magister, it gave rise to Mr., survives formally for boys and in Scottish courtesy titles, and is now old-fashioned.
Master (மாஸ்டர்) (2021 film)
Master (மாஸ்டர்), also called Vaathi, is a 2021 Tamil action thriller directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, starring Vijay as professor JD and Vijay Sethupathi as gangster Bhavani; released 13 January 2021, it grossed ₹257 crore worldwide.
Master and Commander
Master and Commander is a 1969 novel by Patrick O'Brian and the first of the Aubrey–Maturin series, following Jack Aubrey's first command and his friendship with surgeon Stephen Maturin.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is Peter Weir's 2003 Napoleonic naval film with Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany, adapted from Patrick O'Brian's first and tenth Aubrey/Maturin novels, winner of two Oscars from ten nominations.
Master boot record
The master boot record (MBR), or partition sector, is the first 512-byte sector of a partitioned disk, holding boot code and a table of up to four partitions.
Master budget
A master budget is the consolidated summary of all of an organization's functional budgets for a period, combining operating and financial budgets into one plan culminating in budgeted financial statements.
Master Chemical Mechanism
The Master Chemical Mechanism (MCM) is a near-explicit chemical mechanism describing the gas-phase degradation of volatile organic compounds in the troposphere, hosted at the University of York.
Master Chief (Halo)
Master Chief, also known as John-117, is the protagonist of the Halo franchise, a Spartan-II supersoldier who has been the face of Xbox since 2001.
Master chief petty officer
Master chief petty officer (MCPO) is the E-9 enlisted rank of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, created June 1, 1958; its service-top variants are MCPON and MCPOCG.
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON), established 1967, is the U.S. Navy's senior enlisted leader and advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, set by OPNAVINST 1306.4B, topping enlisted precedence.
Master Cleanse
Master Cleanse, or Lemonade Diet: a 10-plus-day liquid fast of lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and water, created by Stanley Burroughs in the 1940s; no scientific evidence supports its detox claims.
Master controller (teleoperation)
A master controller is the operator-side input device of a master-slave teleoperation system, capturing the operator's hand motions and, in force-reflecting designs, pushing back with forces felt at the slave.
Master cylinder
The master cylinder, also called the master brake cylinder, is a hydraulic pump operated by the brake pedal that sends fluid pressure to the wheel brakes.
Master data management
Master data management (MDM) is a technology-enabled business discipline in which business and IT create accurate, consistent master data records, such as customers and products, shared across enterprise systems.
Master equation
A master equation is a first-order differential equation describing how the probabilities of a system's states evolve in Markovian dynamics, where the future depends only on the present.
Master File Table
The master file table (MFT) is the core metadata structure of the NTFS file system, storing the information required to retrieve every file on an NTFS partition.
Master Fu's Green Plum Is Both Sassy and Beautiful (傅爷的小青梅又飒又美)
Master Fu's Green Plum Is Both Sassy and Beautiful (傅爷的小青梅又飒又美) is a 2025 Chinese urban-romance micro short drama, 87 two-minute episodes by Hubei Jingyue, starring Zhao Guanyu and Lin Zirong; a Hongguo hit that won a 2025 Hongguo annual award, distinct from the 2026 flash-marriage drama of similar name.
Master Gardener (film)
Master Gardener is Paul Schrader's 2022 drama-thriller, third in his man-in-a-room trilogy, starring Joel Edgerton as a reformed neo-Nazi horticulturist in witness protection with Sigourney Weaver and Quintessa Swindell; released by Magnolia Pictures in May 2023.
Master Hand
Master Hand (マスターハンド) is a hand-like entity who serves as the main antagonist and recurring final boss of the Super Smash Bros. series, fought at Final Destination.
Master in the House (집사부일체)
Master in the House (집사부일체, All the Butlers) is an SBS Korean reality variety show, premiered December 31, 2017, in which a fixed young cast spends two days and one night living with a master, relaunched as a 16-episode season 2 on Netflix and Watcha in 2023.
Master Juba
Master Juba, William Henry Lane (c. 1825–1852), African American challenge dancer of Manhattan's Five Points; beat John Diamond, toured Britain with Pell's Serenaders in 1848, earliest named tap dancer.
Master KG
Master KG, born Kgaogelo Moagi in 1996 in Tzaneen, Limpopo, is a South African DJ and producer behind "Jerusalema" and bolobedu house.
Master Manole
Master Manole (Meșterul Manole) is the hero of a Romanian folk ballad, also known as Mănăstirea Argeșului, in which a master mason walls his wife into the church at Curtea de Argeș.