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Meisei Electric
Meisei Electric is a Japanese manufacturer of meteorological, disaster-prevention, and space equipment, founded in Tokyo in 1938 and headquartered in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture. It supplied instruments for Japan's first satellite, Ohsumi.
Meishan
Meishan (眉山) is a prefecture-level city in central Sichuan, China, southwest of Chengdu, home to about 3.4 million people and designated a national historical and cultural city in 2026.
Meishan Su Clan
The Meishan Su Clan (眉山苏氏) was a scholar-official lineage of Meishan, Sichuan, whose Three Su, Su Xun and his sons Su Shi and Su Zhe, ranked among the Eight Masters of Tang and Song.
Meishin Expressway
The Meishin Expressway (名神高速道路) is a 189 km toll expressway in Japan linking Nagoya with Kobe via Osaka, opened in stages between 1963 and 1965.
Meisho Doto (メイショウドトウ)
Meisho Doto (メイショウドトウ), Irish-born Japanese racehorse foaled 1996 by Bigstone; 27 starts, 10 wins. Famous for five straight G1 seconds to T.M. Opera O before winning the 2001 Takarazuka Kinen; now a Retired Horse Association foster horse at Northern Lake, Hokkaido.
Meisho Tabaru (メイショウタバル)
Meisho Tabaru (メイショウタバル), Japanese racehorse foaled 2021 by Gold Ship out of Meisho Tsubakuro; won the G1 Takarazuka Kinen back-to-back in 2025 and 2026 under Yutaka Take, plus the Kobe Shimbun Hai and Mainichi Hai.
Meisho-e
Meisho-e (名所絵, "pictures of famous places") is a Japanese genre of painting and printmaking depicting celebrated scenic spots, perfected by Hokusai and Hiroshige in the Edo period.
Meisner technique
Meisner technique: Sanford Meisner's American actor-training method, built on the repetition exercise, emotional preparation, and improvisation, teaching actors to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances without Strasberg-style emotional memory.
Meisoindigo
Meisoindigo (甲异靛, N-methylisoindigotin, Dian III) is a synthetic indirubin derivative approved in China in 1992 for chronic myeloid leukemia; dosed 50 mg two to three times daily, it induces apoptosis and differentiation and acts as a PKMYT1 molecular glue.
Meissen
Meissen (Meißen), Saxony's oldest town on the Elbe near Dresden, birthplace of European porcelain: manufactory founded 1710 in the Albrechtsburg, crossed-swords mark since 1722, wine region, about 29,000 residents.
Meissen Monkey Band
The Meissen Monkey Band, also sold as the Monkey Orchestra (Affenkapelle), is a set of 21 porcelain monkey musician figurines first modeled at Meissen in 1753 by Johann Joachim Kändler.
Meissen porcelain
Meissen porcelain: hard-paste porcelain from the Meissen manufactory near Dresden, founded 1710 by Augustus the Strong; first made in Europe in 1708 by Boettger and Tschirnhaus using Saxon kaolin; crossed-swords mark since 1722.
Meissner effect
The Meissner effect, also called superdiamagnetism, is the expulsion of magnetic field from a superconductor's interior, first observed by Walther Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld in 1933.
MEISTeR
MEISTeR, short for Maintenance Equipment Integrated System of Telecontrol Robot, is a two-armed remote robot by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries used for decontamination and sampling at Fukushima Daiichi after 2011.
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart (Eckhart of Hochheim, c. 1260–1328) was a German Dominican theologian, twice Paris magister, and preacher of vernacular German sermons on detachment (gelâzenheit) and the birth of God in the soul; tried at Cologne in 1326 and condemned posthumously by John XXII in 1329.
Meistersang
Meistersang, also called Meistergesang, was the rule-bound civic song culture of German cities from the 14th to the 16th centuries, practiced almost exclusively by artisans, most famously Hans Sachs.
Meitei classical language movement
Meitei classical language movement: campaign for classical language status for Manipuri (Meiteilon), led by the Manipur government, MEELAL, WAMA and MP Leishemba Sanajaoba; a draft state proposal was being finalized in 2026 while India recognized 11 classical languages.
Meitei language
Meitei language, also called Meiteilon and officially Manipuri, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in Manipur, India, with around 1.8 million speakers recorded in 2011.
Meitei linguistic purism movement
Meitei linguistic purism movement (Manipuri purism): MEELAL-led campaign since 2003 to purge Meiteilon of Hindi, Sanskrit, and English loanwords and restore the Meetei Mayek script, with state lexicon committees, textbook reform, and print rules in Manipur.
Meitei people
Meitei people, also Meetei, majority ethnic community of Manipur, northeast India, living in the Imphal Valley, predominantly Hindu Vaiṣṇava, speaking Meiteilon (Manipuri), a Tibeto-Burman lingua franca written in Meitei Mayek and Bengali scripts.
Meitei poetry
Meitei poetry, also known as Manipuri poetry, is the poetic tradition of the Meitei language of Manipur, India, surviving in ritual songs, classical manuscripts, and modern written verse.
Meitner (lunar crater)
Meitner is an impact crater on the Moon's far side, about 87 km in diameter, named by the IAU for Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, who co-discovered nuclear fission.
Meitner (Venusian crater)
Meitner crater, a 149-km multiring impact basin on Venus at 55.6°S, 321.6°E, IAU-approved 1979, named for Austrian physicist Lise Meitner; third-largest identified Venusian impact feature.
Meitnerium
Meitnerium, formerly called unnilennium, is a synthetic, highly radioactive chemical element with symbol Mt and atomic number 109, first produced in Darmstadt, Germany in 1982.
Meitoku Rebellion
The Meitoku Rebellion was a 1391 revolt by Yamana Ujikiyo and Yamana Mitsuyuki against shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, crushed at Uchino in Kyoto, where Ujikiyo was killed.
Meitokuki
Meitokuki (明徳記) is a Japanese military chronicle (gunki monogatari) about the Meitoku Rebellion of 1391, in which the Yamana clan rose against shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
Meitu, Inc.
Meitu, Inc. (美图公司) is a Chinese photo and video technology company founded in Xiamen in 2008 by Wu Xinhong and Cai Wensheng, known for the Meitu app.
Meituan
Meituan (美团) is a Chinese local-services platform centered on food delivery, founded by Wang Xing in Beijing in 2010 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Meiwa famine
The Meiwa famine (明和の飢饉) was a famine in Japan during the Meiwa era, 1764–1772, of the Edo period, driven by consecutive poor harvests and culminating in a nationwide drought in 1770.
Meiway & Le Zo Gang
Meiway & Le Zo Gang is the Ivorian band of the singer Meiway, creator of zoblazo, a percussion-driven dance music he has led since the late 1980s.