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Medium Atomic Demolition Munition
The Medium Atomic Demolition Munition was an American tactical nuclear land mine using the W45 warhead, with a selectable yield of 1 to 15 kilotons.
Medium Attachment Unit
A Medium Attachment Unit (MAU) is the Ethernet transceiver connecting a station's AUI port to the network cable, best known on 10BASE5 thick coax via vampire taps.
Medium Build
Medium Build is the indie rock, country, and lo-fi project of American singer-songwriter Nick Carpenter, founded in 2015, Alaska-based, signed to slowplay/Island Records in 2023, known for the 2024 album Country and 2026's King of Having Fun.
Medium Earth orbit
Medium Earth orbit, also called Intermediate Circular Orbit, is the band from 2,000 to 36,000 kilometers up, home to GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, GLONASS, and broadband satellites.
Medium frequency
Medium frequency (MF) is the ITU radio band from 300 to 3000 kHz, wavelengths of 100 to 1000 meters, carrying the AM broadcast band and maritime warnings.
Medium Girder Bridge
The Medium Girder Bridge (MGB) is a lightweight British military bridge built by hand without cranes, developed in the 1970s and still serving British and US armies.
Medium machine gun
A medium machine gun (MMG) is a belt-fed, crew-served automatic weapon of intermediate rifle caliber, roughly 6.5 to 8 mm, requiring a mount and a three-person crew for sustained fire.
Medium Mark A Whippet
The Medium Mark A Whippet was a British First World War medium tank, first used in battle in March 1918, with a top speed of about 8 mph.
Medium of exchange
A medium of exchange is an asset habitually accepted in payment for goods and services, sparing traders the double coincidence of wants; today mostly bank deposits and cards.
Medium of instruction
Medium of instruction, also called the language of instruction, is the language a school or university uses to teach academic content, as distinct from languages taught as subjects.
Medium spiny neuron
Medium spiny neuron (MSN, spiny projection neuron): inhibitory GABAergic projection neuron of the striatum, about 95% of striatal neurons; D1 direct-pathway and D2 indirect-pathway subtypes; lost in Huntington disease.
Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement
The Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) is a 7-ton all-terrain military truck built by Oshkosh Defense, serving as the U.S. Marine Corps' primary heavy tactical vehicle.
Medium- and long-chain structured triglycerides
Medium- and long-chain structured triglycerides (MLCT, MLM structured lipids) are modified triacylglycerols carrying both C6-C12 and C14-C24 fatty acids in one molecule, made mainly by lipase-catalyzed interesterification for weight management, infant formula, and malabsorption nutrition.
Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD, ACADM deficiency) is an autosomal recessive fatty acid beta-oxidation disorder causing hypoketotic hypoglycemia during fasting or illness; treatable via newborn screening, fasting avoidance, and emergency glucose regimens.
Medium-chain triglycerides
Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs), triglycerides of C6–C12 fatty acids such as caprylic and capric acid, are rapidly absorbed fats used in clinical nutrition, ketogenic epilepsy therapy, and supplements.
Medium-density fibreboard
Medium-density fibreboard (MDF) is an engineered wood panel of wood fibers, wax, and resin pressed under heat, developed in the United States in the early 1960s and used for furniture, cabinets, and doors.
Medium-energy ion scattering
Medium-energy ion scattering (MEIS) is an ion beam analysis technique, typically using 100–200 keV protons, that determines the composition and structure of a solid's outermost atomic layers.
Medium-entropy alloy
A medium-entropy alloy (MEA) is a metallic alloy of three or four principal elements in near-equiatomic fractions, whose mixing entropy falls between conventional alloys and high-entropy alloys.
Mediumship
Mediumship is the claimed mediation of communication between the living and the dead, the core practice of Spiritualism founded after the 1848 Fox sisters rappings; it divides into physical and mental forms and remains scientifically contested.
Medivh
Medivh, the Last Guardian of Tirisfal in Blizzard's Warcraft lore, son of Aegwynn and Nielas Aran, possessed by Sargeras, opened the Dark Portal, was slain at Karazhan, and returned as the Prophet in Warcraft III.
Medjay
The Medjay (mḏꜢy) were Eastern Desert nomads known to Egypt from Dynasty 6 who became, by the New Kingdom, the elite desert-police force guarding capitals, royal tombs, and borders; not the Pan-Grave culture.
Medjed
Medjed (Mḏd, "The Smiter") is a minor ancient Egyptian deity of Book of the Dead Spell 17, depicted only in 21st Dynasty sources as an invisible conical figure, later a mascot-like character in Japanese anime, games, and Persona 5.
Medjool
Medjool (Mejhool, Medjoul, Majhoul) is a soft, large-fruited cultivar of the date palm Phoenix dactylifera from Morocco's Tafilalet district, introduced to the USA in 1927 by Walter Swingle and to Israel in 1934.
Medjugorje
Medjugorje (Međugorje) is a village in Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where six young people reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary from 1981, drawing millions of pilgrims.
Medlander (南京麦澜德医疗科技股份有限公司) (麦澜德)
Medlander (麦澜德), formally Nanjing Medlander Medical Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese company in Nanjing making pelvic-floor and obstetric rehabilitation devices, listed on the STAR Market since 2022.
Medley swimming
Medley swimming, or individual medley (IM), combines butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle in one race; relays use a different order, and Olympic IM events are the 200 m and 400 m.
Medlinker (Yilian)
Medlinker (Chinese: 医联) is a Chinese digital-health company founded in Chengdu in 2014 by physician Wang Shirui, which evolved from a physician network into chronic-disease management.
Medni Kadyrova (Медни Мусаевна Кадырова)
Medni Musaevna Kadyrova (Медни Мусаевна Кадырова), born 1978, née Aydamirova, is Ramzan Kadyrov's wife, founder of the Firdaws fashion house, vice-president of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, mother of 14 children, and under US sanctions since 2020.
Mednyj Aleut language
Mednyj Aleut (Copper Island Aleut, unan'am umsuu) was a mixed Aleut-Russian language formed on Medny Island in the Commander Islands from the extinct Attu dialect and Russian, with Aleut nouns but Russian finite verb morphology; extinct since 2022.
Medo-Persian conflict
The Medo-Persian conflict was the war between the Median king Astyages and Cyrus II of Persis, fought from about 553 to 550 BC, ending with Astyages's capture and the fall of Ecbatana.