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Match of the Day
Match of the Day is a BBC television program that broadcasts Premier League highlights on Saturday evenings. It is the longest-running football program in the world.
Match play
Match play, golf's head-to-head format under Rule 3.2, scores by holes won, lost or tied, allows concessions of stroke, hole or match, and needs no scorecard; used in the Ryder Cup and the PGA Tour's 2028 Tour Championship.
Match Point
Written and directed by Woody Allen, Match Point is a 2005 drama-thriller set in London. It tells of an Irish tennis instructor whose marriage threatens his social standing.
Match Point (รักนี้ต้องเสิร์ฟ) (TV series)
Match Point (รักนี้ต้องเสิร์ฟ, Rak Ni Tong Soep) is a 2026 GMMTV Thai BL series starring Teshow and Ping as sons of rival dim sum restaurants forced into a secret tennis doubles partnership, airing 10 episodes on GMM25 from 26 July to 27 September 2026.
MATCH study
MATCH (NCT04572568) is a nationwide prospective registry of brain arteriovenous malformations led by Beijing Tiantan Hospital, enrolling about 4,000 patients across 52 Chinese hospitals since 2011 to study natural history, hemorrhage predictors, and multimodality treatment outcomes.
Match trigger
A match trigger is a rifle or pistol trigger built to tighter tolerances than a standard factory trigger, giving a lighter, more repeatable release, often as a two-stage design.
Match.com
Match.com, launched April 1995 by Gary Kremen's Electric Classifieds, is a search-based online dating service for serious relationships, now a Match Group brand alongside Tinder and Hinge; sued by the FTC in 2019 over fake love-interest ads and cancellation practices.
Matcha
Matcha (抹茶) is Japanese powdered green tea made from shade-grown tencha leaves that are steamed, dried unrolled, and stone-milled to 1-20 μm powder; whisked in the tea ceremony since Eisai's 1191 introduction, now a $4.3 billion global market with unregulated "ceremonial grade" labeling.
Matcha latte
Matcha latte: a Western café drink of whisked Japanese powdered green tea (matcha) with steamed milk and sweetener, hot or iced. Caffeine 19–44 mg/g of powder; "ceremonial grade" is unregulated; demand boom tripled tencha prices.
Matchbox (brand)
Matchbox is a brand of realistic 1:64-scale die-cast toy vehicles created by England's Lesney Products in 1953 and owned by Mattel since 1997, selling millions of cars yearly.
Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty, also known as Matchbox 20, is an American rock band formed in 1995 in Orlando, Florida, known for hits such as "Push," "3AM," and "Unwell."
Matchbox: The Movie
Matchbox: The Movie is a 2026 Apple Original action comedy from Skydance and Mattel Studios, directed by Sam Hargrave, starring John Cena as a framed CIA agent; released October 9, 2026 on Apple TV with weak reviews but strong streaming viewership.
Matched asymptotic expansions
Matched asymptotic expansions is a method for solving singular perturbation problems, building inner and outer expansions in different regions and joining them through an overlap.
Matched betting
Matched betting, also called bonus hunting or no-risk betting, converts bookmaker free bets and promotions into near-guaranteed profit by pairing back bets with lay bets on a betting exchange; distinct from arbitrage, which exploits odds differences between bookmakers.
Matched filter
A matched filter is a linear filter that maximizes the signal-to-noise ratio at one instant when a known signal is buried in noise, central to radar and sonar.
Matched filter multiuser detector
A matched filter multiuser detector is the conventional receiver for DS-CDMA, using a bank of matched filters that detect each user independently and treat interference as noise.
Matched filtering
Matched filtering is a signal processing method that detects a known signal pattern in noisy data by correlating it with a template, giving the highest signal-to-noise ratio of any linear filter.
Matched filtering precoding
Matched filtering precoding, also known as maximum-ratio transmission (MRT) or conjugate beamforming, is a low-complexity linear precoding technique that maximizes array gain in multiuser and massive MIMO downlinks.
Matched-field processing
Matched-field processing is an array-processing technique that locates wave sources by matching recorded wavefields against synthetic replica fields for candidate positions. Developed in underwater acoustics, it is also used in seismology.
Matched-pair analysis
Matched-pair analysis is a statistical design and analysis method in which study units are paired on observed baseline covariates, so confounding from the matched variables is controlled by the pairing itself.
Matchgirls' strike
The Matchgirls' strike, July 1888: about 1,400 women and girls at Bryant & May's Bow match factory in London walked out over fines, low pay and phossy jaw from white phosphorus, won their demands, and helped launch New Unionism.
Matching (graph theory)
In graph theory, a matching is a set of edges, no two sharing an endpoint; the matching problem seeks a largest or minimum-weight such set.
Matching algorithms in online dating
Matching algorithms in online dating are the recommendation systems that decide which profiles a user sees and in what order, using collaborative filtering, questionnaire scoring, and two-sided matching.
Matching pennies
Matching pennies is a two-player zero-sum game in which matching pennies pay player 1 and mismatching pennies pay player 2; its unique equilibrium mixes 50-50, illustrated by penalty kicks.
Matching polynomial
The matching polynomial of a graph is a polynomial whose coefficients count the graph's matchings by size, introduced by Farrell in 1979 and studied by Heilmann and Lieb.
Matching principle
The matching principle is the accounting rule that revenues and the expenses they generate should be recognized in the same reporting period, a core feature of accrual accounting.
Matching pursuit
Matching pursuit is a greedy sparse approximation algorithm, introduced by Mallat and Zhang in 1993, that decomposes a signal into waveforms chosen from a redundant dictionary.
Matching theory (economics)
Matching theory is the branch of economics studying how two-sided markets, like workers and firms or students and schools, pair agents when prices cannot allocate.
Matchlock
The matchlock is a firearm ignition mechanism using a slow-burning cord lowered into a priming pan, the first mechanical gun lock, appearing in Europe in the mid-15th century.
Matchmaking
Matchmaking, the arranged introduction of people for marriage or long-term partnership, spans French commercial marriage agencies from 1812, Jewish shidduchim, Saudi family-led spouse selection, diaspora matrimonial platforms, and algorithmic online dating systems.