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Melputtur Narayana Bhattathiri
Melputtur Narayana Bhattathiri (മേല്പത്തൂർ നാരായണ ഭട്ടതിരി) was a Namboothiri Brahmin scholar and Sanskrit poet of Kerala, born around 1560, best known as the author of the Narayaniyam.
Melputtur Narayana Bhattatiri
Melputtur Narayana Bhattatiri (मेल्पुत्तूर् नारायण भट्टतिरि) was a Sanskrit poet and grammarian of Kerala, born about 1560 near Tirunavaya, best known for the Narayaniyam, a devotional poem in praise of Krishna at Guruvayur.
Melqart Stele
The Melqart Stele, also known as the Bar-Hadad stele, is a basalt Aramaic votive stele erected to the god Melqart by Bir-Hadad, king of Aram, found near Aleppo in 1939.
Melquizael Costa
Melquizael Costa, "The Dalmatian" (born 1996, Porto de Moz, Brazil), UFC featherweight, 26-8 pro, 7-3 UFC; first to stop Dan Ige; lost 2026 main event to Arnold Allen; has vitiligo.
Melrose Abbey
Melrose Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Melrose, Roxburghshire, founded by King David I in 1136 as Scotland's first Cistercian abbey and its principal one.
Melrose Place
Melrose Place: Fox prime-time soap opera, spinoff of Beverly Hills 90210, created by Darren Star, produced by Aaron Spelling, 1992-1999, seven seasons set at a West Hollywood apartment complex; 2009 CW revival lasted one season.
Melrose Place (2009 TV series)
Melrose Place (2009–2010), also called Melrose Place 2.0, is The CW's one-season, 18-episode reboot of the 1992 soap, developed by Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer, with Laura Leighton, Heather Locklear, and other original stars returning; it premiered September 8, 2009 to soft ratings.
MELSEC
MELSEC is the brand of programmable logic controllers made by Mitsubishi Electric since 1973, used to automate production lines and programmed with MELSOFT GX Works software.
Melt (band)
Melt (band): New York City indie band formed 2017, aka Melt the Band, known for viral single "Sour Candy" (#5 Billboard US Viral 50), EP West Side Highway (2021), debut album If There's a Heaven (2024), and horn-driven live shows.
Melt and pour (steel)
Melt and pour is a steel trade criterion identifying the country where raw steel was first melted in a furnace and poured into its first solid shape.
Melt crystallization
Melt crystallization is a solvent-free purification technique in which crystals grown from an impure melt reject impurities into the liquid, achieving purities above 99.99% for organic chemicals.
Melt electrowriting
Melt electrowriting (MEW) is an additive manufacturing technique in which molten thermoplastic is extruded through a charged nozzle and deposited as microfibers, first demonstrated in 2011 and used chiefly to build tissue engineering scaffolds.
Melt flow index
The melt flow index, also called the melt flow rate or melt index, measures how readily molten thermoplastic flows, reported in grams per 10 minutes.
Melt pond
A melt pond is a pool of meltwater that collects on the surface of sea ice, most commonly on Arctic sea ice during summer, where ponds lower albedo and speed melting.
Melt spinning
Melt spinning is a fiber fabrication method in which molten polymer is extruded through a spinneret and drawn into filaments as it cools, the most common method for commercial fibers.
Melt-Banana (メルト・バナナ)
Melt-Banana (メルト・バナナ) is a Tokyo noise rock band formed in 1993, built around vocalist Yasuko Onuki (Yako) and guitarist Ichirou Agata, known for hyperactive, effects-driven noise punk on its A-Zap label.
Melt-quenched MOF glasses
Melt-quenched MOF glasses are amorphous hybrid solids made by melting a crystalline metal–organic framework and rapidly cooling it, forming a rare fourth class of glass alongside metallic, inorganic, and organic glasses.
Melta
Melta: Roman road station in Lower Moesia, on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Dorionibus and Sostra on the Oescus–Philippopolis road, generally placed at Lovech, Bulgaria; terminus of the Melta–Marcianopolis road; not firmly excavated.
Meltage-fee reform (huohao guigong) (火耗归公)
The meltage-fee reform (huohao guigong, 火耗归公) was a Qing fiscal policy approved by the Yongzheng Emperor, remitting meltage surcharges to provincial treasuries to fund official salaries.
Meltano
Meltano is an open-source, MIT-licensed, Python declarative ELT engine running Singer taps and targets, created inside GitLab in 2018, spun out with a $4.2M GV seed in 2021, renamed Arch Data, and acquired by Matatika in December 2025.
Meltdown (security vulnerability)
Meltdown, also called rogue data cache load or variant 3, is a security vulnerability disclosed in 2018 that lets unprivileged code read privileged kernel memory on Intel processors.
Melting
Melting is the phase transition in which a solid loses its ordered structure and becomes a liquid, normally as temperature rises at a given pressure, and remains one of the less settled problems in condensed-matter physics.
Melting curve analysis
Melting curve analysis monitors DNA-bound dye fluorescence as temperature rises through a duplex's melting point, verifying PCR products and, in high-resolution melting, detecting and genotyping sequence variants.
Melting Me Softly
Melting Me Softly (날 녹여주오, Nal Nokyeojuo) is a 2019 tvN Korean romantic-comedy drama, 16 episodes, in which Ji Chang-wook and Won Jin-ah, frozen for a 24-hour experiment, wake 20 years later needing body temperatures above 30°C, with low Nielsen ratings of 1-3 percent.
Melting point
The melting point is the temperature at which a substance changes from solid to liquid; the solid and liquid coexist in equilibrium there, and it ideally equals the freezing point.
Melting point depression
Melting point depression is the lowering of a substance's melting temperature by a dissolved solute or by small particle size, described by colligative and Gibbs–Thomson relations.
Melting pot
The melting pot is the American assimilation metaphor popularized by Israel Zangwill's 1908 Broadway play, contrasting with the salad bowl or cultural pluralism, and contested in U.S. immigration politics since the 1920s.
Melton
Melton: a suburb and local government area 28 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, one of Australia's fastest growing areas (178,960 people in 2021), and separately a rural borough in Leicestershire, England, centered on Melton Mowbray.
Melty Blood (メルティブラッド)
Melty Blood (メルティブラッド) is a 2D fighting game series set in the world of TYPE-MOON's Tsukihime visual novel, developed by French-Bread. Its reboot entry, Melty Blood: Type Lumina, was released in 2021.
Meluhha
Meluhha (Meluḫḫa) is the cuneiform name Mesopotamian scribes used for the Indus Valley Civilization trading partner, attested c. 2350–1794 BCE alongside Dilmun and Magan, with a Meluhhan traders' village near Lagash and an interpreter's seal in the Louvre.