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Megas XLR
Megas XLR (pilot title Lowbrow) is a 2004–2005 Cartoon Network animated action comedy by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic: New Jersey slackers Coop and Jamie rebuild an 80-foot future war robot and, with pilot Kiva, fight the alien Glorft in a mecha-anime parody.
Megascops asio
Megascops asio, the eastern screech-owl (formerly Otus asio), is a small Strigidae owl of eastern North America and northeastern Mexico with gray and rufous morphs, cavity nesting, and Least Concern status.
Megaskepasma erythrochlamys
Megaskepasma erythrochlamys, Brazilian red-cloak or red justicia, is the sole species of its Acanthaceae genus, a tropical evergreen shrub with red bracts and white tubular flowers, native to northern South America and Central America and widely cultivated.
Megasphaera
Megasphaera (type species M. elsdenii) is a genus of Gram-negative anaerobic cocci in Veillonellaceae, Negativicutes, found in the rumen and human gut and vagina, defined by lactate fermentation to propionate, butyrate, and valerate.
Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης)
Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης), Ionian Greek diplomat c. 350–290 BCE, Seleucus I's ambassador to Chandragupta Maurya at Pataliputra; author of the lost four-book Indica, surviving only in fragments in Diodorus, Strabo, Arrian, and Pliny.
Megastructure
A megastructure is an architectural concept in which one very large structural frame houses a city's buildings, transportation, and public facilities, coined by Fumihiko Maki in 1964.
Megastudy
A megastudy is a large field experiment comparing many behavioral interventions at once in the same population, introduced by Katherine Milkman and colleagues in Nature in 2021.
Megat Iskandar Shah
Megat Iskandar Shah (Malay: Megat Iskandar Syah; died 1423 or 1424) was the second ruler of Malacca, reigning from 1414, remembered as its first Muslim ruler.
Megatherium
Megatherium, especially M. americanum, an extinct four-tonne giant ground sloth from Pleistocene South America, largest bipedal mammal, discovered 1787, described by Cuvier, collected by Darwin, extinct around the Holocene.
Megathrust earthquake
A megathrust earthquake is a great earthquake of moment magnitude 8 or more that ruptures the plate-boundary fault of a subduction zone, including the largest recorded quakes.
Megathyrsus
Megathyrsus, also called Panicum subgenus Megathyrsus, is a small C4 grass genus (Poaceae) established in 2003 by Simon and Jacobs, with four African species; its type species M. maximus (Guinea grass, syn. Panicum maximum) is a major tropical forage grass.
Megathyrsus maximus
Megathyrsus maximus, guinea grass (formerly Panicum maximum), is a tufted perennial Poaceae forage grass native to tropical and southern Africa, widely grown in tropical pastures and invasive in semi-arid subtropics.
Megatokyo
Megatokyo (メガトーキョー) is a long-running English-language webcomic created in August 2000 by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston about two stranded American otaku in Tokyo; manga-styled, print-published by Ironcat, Dark Horse, and DC's CMX, and still updating.
Megatons to Megawatts Program
Megatons to Megawatts: 1993 US-Russia HEU Purchase Agreement converting 500 metric tons of warhead uranium into 15,200 tons of reactor fuel, ~20,000 warheads' worth, ~10% of US electricity, ended December 2013.
Megatron
Megatron is the Decepticon leader of the Transformers franchise, named by Bob Budiansky in 1983 from megaton. Voiced by Frank Welker since 1984; became Galvatron in the 1986 film; Hugo Weaving voiced him in the live-action films.
Megatron-LM
Megatron-LM is an open-source PyTorch library from NVIDIA for training large transformer language models across many GPUs, built on tensor, pipeline, and data parallelism since 2019.
Megatron-Turing NLG
Megatron-Turing NLG (MT-NLG) is a 530-billion-parameter language model trained jointly by Microsoft and NVIDIA and announced in October 2021, then the largest dense transformer model.
Megatronix
Megatronix (镁佳科技, legally 镁佳（北京）科技有限公司) is a Beijing automotive technology company founded by Zhuang Li in 2018 that supplies smart cockpit systems, domain controllers, and connected-car software to Chinese and international automakers.
Megatsunami
A megatsunami, also known as an iminami, is an unusually large tsunami generated by giant landslides, volcanic flank collapses, or asteroid impacts instead of ordinary earthquakes, with run-ups exceeding 100 m.
Megaupload
Megaupload was a one-click file-hosting service founded by Kim Dotcom in 2005, shut down by the US Department of Justice in January 2012 on criminal copyright charges.
Megawati Soekarnoputri
Megawati Soekarnoputri is an Indonesian politician who served as the fifth President of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004 and has led the PDI-P since 1999.
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Megawati Sukarnoputri (Megawati Soekarnoputri), born 1947, daughter of Sukarno, is Indonesia's fifth president (2001-2004), its first female head of state, vice president 1999-2001, and longtime chairwoman of PDI Perjuangan.
Megawatt Charging System
The Megawatt Charging System (MCS) is a CharIN charging standard for heavy-duty electric vehicles, delivering DC power up to 3.75 MW, about seven times today's fast charging.
Megawide Construction Corporation
Megawide Construction Corporation is a Philippine construction and infrastructure company founded by Edgar B. Saavedra, incorporated in 2004 and listed on the PSE in 2011.
Megazone Cloud
MegazoneCloud (메가존클라우드) is a South Korean cloud managed services provider working with AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, spun off from Megazone Corp. in 2018 and Korea's first AWS partner.
MEGDEL syndrome
MEGDEL syndrome (MEGDHEL), a rare autosomal recessive SERAC1-related neurometabolic disorder with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria, neonatal hepatopathy, hypotonia, dystonia, spasticity, progressive deafness, and Leigh-like brain changes.
Megerditch Kiledjian
Megerditch Kiledjian is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for identifying mammalian mRNA decapping enzymes and the NAD+ RNA cap that promotes RNA decay.
Megestrol acetate
Megestrol acetate, sold as Megace, is a synthetic progestin derived from progesterone, used as an appetite stimulant in AIDS-related wasting and as palliative treatment for advanced breast and endometrial cancer.
Meggitt
Meggitt PLC was a British aerospace, defense, and energy engineering company headquartered in Coventry, England, known for aircraft wheels, brakes, and engine sensors; Parker-Hannifin acquired it in 2022.
Megha Barsenge
Megha Barsenge (मेघा बरसेंगे) is a Hindi TV drama on Colors TV and JioCinema, premiered 6 August 2024, starring Neha Rana, Neil Bhatt, and Kinshuk Mahajan in a story of a bride abandoned by her NRI husband.