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Mellin transform

The Mellin transform is an integral transform converting a function on the positive real axis into a function of a complex variable, the multiplicative counterpart of the Fourier transform.

Mellish (Martian crater)

Mellish is an official impact crater on Mars in the southern highlands. It is recognized by the IAU and noted for a pedestal crater on its floor.

Mellissurgin

Mellissurgin (Melissirgin, Melissurgis, Greek Μελλισούργοι) was a Roman road station in Mygdonia, Macedonia, on the Via Egnatia between Thessalonica and Apollonia, now placed near Gerakarou, Greece, and known only from the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana.

Mellitus

Mellitus, who died in 624, was a Roman missionary sent to convert the Anglo-Saxons, the first Bishop of London, and the third Archbishop of Canterbury from 619 to 624.

Mello & Sleazy

Mello & Sleazy, who release music as Mellow & Sleazy, are a South African amapiano and Bacardi production duo from Tshwane, known for the 2021 hit "Bopha".

Mello Yello

Mello Yello is a citrus-flavored, caffeinated soft drink introduced by The Coca-Cola Company in 1979 to compete with Mountain Dew; sold mainly in the US Midwest and Southeast in Original and Zero Sugar versions, with about 51 mg caffeine per 12 fl oz can.

Mello-Roos

Mello-Roos is a California financing method under the 1982 Community Facilities Act, named for Henry Mello and Mike Roos, forming CFDs that issue land-secured bonds repaid by special taxes on property, distinct from ad valorem taxes and assessments.

Mellody Hobson

Mellody Hobson is an American business executive who rose from summer intern to co-CEO and largest shareholder of Chicago's Ariel Investments, and served as chair of Starbucks from 2021 to 2024.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, The Smashing Pumpkins' 1995 double album (28 songs, Virgin Records), debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, earned seven Grammy nominations, and was RIAA Diamond certified.

Mellon family

The Mellon family is an American banking and industrial dynasty founded by Judge Thomas Mellon, who opened a Pittsburgh bank in 1870 and built one of America's great fortunes.

Mellosedum

Mellosedum, a Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Cularo (Grenoble) and Brigantio (Briançon), in the Romanche valley, Isère; site debated (Mizoën, Mont-de-Lans, Bourg-d'Oisans). Also a manuscript name of Melun.

Mellotron

Mellotron, tape-replay electromechanical keyboard derived from Harry Chamberlin's Chamberlin and built in Birmingham by the Bradley brothers from 1963. One ~8-second tape strip per key; M400, Strawberry Fields, prog rock; revived by Streetly and as the digital M4000D.

Mellow & Sleazy

Mellow & Sleazy, also known as Bafana Ba Kwa-kwa, are a South African amapiano production duo from Soshanguve and Ga-Rankuwa who spearheaded the bacardi-infused wing of amapiano from 2021.

Mellow Gold

Mellow Gold is Beck Hansen's major-label debut album, released March 1, 1994 on Geffen/DGC. Built from home-recorded tapes with producers Karl Stephenson, Tom Rothrock, and Rob Schnapf, it fuses folk, rap, psychedelia, and rock, and launched with the platinum-selling hit single "Loser".

Mellow Yellow

Mellow Yellow: 1966 Donovan single and title track of his fourth album, produced by Mickie Most, arranged by John Paul Jones; US #2, UK #8, gold for over one million sales, famous for the banana-peel rumor.

Mellstroy (Андрей Александрович Бурим)

Mellstroy (Андрей Александрович Бурим), Belarusian casino streamer born 1998 in Gomel; trash-stream pioneer banned on YouTube and Twitch, convicted in 2021 for a streamed beating, and wanted in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Melly Goeslaw

Mellyana "Melly" Goeslaw, born 1974 in Bandung, is an Indonesian singer and songwriter known as the Ratu Soundtrack, frontwoman of Potret and composer of the Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? soundtrack.

Melmoth the Wanderer

Melmoth the Wanderer, 1820 Gothic novel by Irish clergyman Charles Robert Maturin, published by Archibald Constable in four volumes; a scholar sells his soul for 150 years and seeks a successor through nested tales.

Melnick-Needles syndrome

Melnick-Needles syndrome (MNS, osteodysplasty, OMIM 309350) is a rare X-linked dominant skeletal dysplasia from FLNA gain-of-function variants, mainly exon 22; severe in males, lethal perinatally, under 100 reported cases.

Mělník

Mělník, Czech royal dowry town in Central Bohemia at the Elbe–Vltava confluence, first recorded 995, elevation 215 m, about 20,300 inhabitants, known for its chateau, ossuary, and Burgundy-vine wine tradition from Charles IV.

Melnikov method

The Melnikov method is an analytical technique in dynamical systems theory that predicts chaos by measuring the splitting of stable and unstable manifolds under small perturbations.

Melnykites

Melnykites (Melnykivtsi), the OUN-M faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists loyal to Andrii Melnyk after the 1940 split from Bandera's OUN-B; conservative wing, later diaspora-based, reburied with state honors in 2026.

Melo melo

Melo melo, the Indian volute or baler shell (椰子渦螺), is a large Southeast Asian volutid sea snail with a pale orange shell up to 27.5 cm, living on sandy-mud bottoms, a carnivore and direct developer, source of rare orange Melo pearls.

Melo Movie (멜로무비)

Melo Movie (멜로무비) is a 2025 Netflix Korean romance series, 10 episodes, released February 14, 2025. Directed by Oh Choong-hwan, written by Lee Na-eun; stars Choi Woo-shik and Park Bo-young as a film critic and a director who reunite after five years.

MELO-REHAB trial

MELO-REHAB (NCT07521150) is a Yeditepe University single-case interventional study testing an 8-week structured physiotherapy exercise program for pain, strength, balance, and quality of life in melorheostosis.

Melocactus

Melocactus (Turk's cap cacti), genus Link & Otto 1827 in Cactaceae, tribe Cereeae, native from S. Mexico to tropical America; ~36-50 species; distinctive bristly cephalium; hummingbird and lizard pollination; several CITES Appendix I species.

Melocactus matanzanus

Melocactus matanzanus (dwarf Turk's-cap cactus, erizo) is a small endangered Cuban cactus described by León in 1934, 7-10 cm across, with 8-9 ribs, a cephalium, pink flowers, and serpentine-scrub habitat in Matanzas and nearby provinces.

Melodic death metal

Melodic death metal, or the Gothenburg sound, is a death metal subgenre from 1990s Gothenburg, Sweden (At The Gates, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity), pairing growled vocals with melodic lead guitars, quasi-tonal harmony, and chorus-centered songwriting.

Melodic hardcore (Japanese)

Melodic hardcore (Japanese), known in Japan as メロコア (merokoa), is a punk subscene that took shape around Hi-STANDARD in the 1990s and boomed in the late 1990s.

Melodica

Melodica, also called pianica or blow-organ: a mouth-blown free-reed keyboard instrument invented in modern form by Hohner in the 1950s, used in schools worldwide and made famous in dub reggae by Augustus Pablo.