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Mercadona
Mercadona is a family-owned Spanish supermarket chain, the largest food retailer in Spain, with 1,672 stores, 115,000 employees, and about €41,858 million in yearly revenue.
Mercantilism
Mercantilism, also called the mercantile system, was the economic policy of European states from roughly the 16th to the 18th century, which equated national wealth with precious metals.
Mercaptopurine
Mercaptopurine (6-MP, Purinethol, Purixan) is a thiopurine antimetabolite discovered by Gertrude Elion and George Hitchings around 1950, FDA approved in 1953, used as maintenance therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia and as an immunosuppressant.
Mercari
Mercari (メルカリ) is a Tokyo-based Japanese e-commerce company founded in February 2013 by Shintaro Yamada, operating a flea-market app that charges a 10% fee and includes the payments subsidiary Merpay.
Mercaticeras
Mercaticeras is an extinct genus of ammonites in the family Hildoceratidae, named by S. S. Buckman in 1913, that lived in the Early Jurassic Toarcian Age.
Mercato Partners
Mercato Partners is a Salt Lake City private equity firm founded in 2007 by Greg Warnock and Alan Hall, investing in growth-stage technology and consumer companies.
Mercator projection
The Mercator projection, also known as the Mercator chart, is a cylindrical map projection presented by Gerardus Mercator in 1569, in which lines of constant bearing are straight.
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham (1919–2009), American dancer and choreographer, founder of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; pioneered chance operations, independent music and dance, and dance technology; legacy held by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (1908–1983) was a Catalan novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright, the most translated Catalan fiction author; her novel La plaça del Diamant appeared in 37 languages.
Merced County
Merced County, California: San Joaquin Valley county established 1855 from Mariposa County, seat at Merced, population 281,202 (2020). Agricultural economy, UC Merced campus, Measure V transit tax, SB 552 drought plan.
Merced, California
Merced, California: Central Valley city founded in 1872 as a Southern Pacific railroad town, nicknamed Gateway to Yosemite via the 1907 Yosemite Valley Railroad; home of UC Merced (opened 2005), population 99,724 in 2025.
Mercedeh Khajavikhan
Mercedeh Khajavikhan is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California working on non-Hermitian, topological photonics, and nanolasers, known for the first PT-symmetric laser.
Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains
Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP), Brixworth-based F1 power unit maker led by Hywel Thomas; supplies Mercedes, McLaren, Williams, Alpine; 2026 M17 E Performance unit, ADUO and reliability disputes.
Mercedes Bustamante
Mercedes Bustamante is a Brazilian ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, titular professor at the Universidade de Brasília, known for her research on the Cerrado savanna and land-use change.
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Juana Mercedes Cabello Llosa, 1845–1909) was a Peruvian novelist and essayist who initiated the realist novel in Peru and advocated women's education.
Mercedes de Acosta
Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968) was an American poet, playwright, and Hollywood scriptwriter remembered for her lesbian relationships with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich as much as her writing.
Mercedes de tierras
Mercedes de tierras were royal land grants made by the Spanish Crown to colonists and Indigenous communities in the Americas, converting occupation into legal property.
Mercedes F1 W07 Hybrid
The Mercedes F1 W07 Hybrid was the Formula One racing car with which the Mercedes AMG Petronas team competed in 2016, driven by Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.
Mercedes Gleitze
Mercedes Gleitze, also known as Mercedes Carey, was a British endurance swimmer who in 1927 became the first British woman to swim the English Channel.
Mercedes Martinez
Mercedes Martinez (Jazmín Benítez, born 1980, Waterbury, Connecticut) is an American retired professional wrestler, active 2002 to 2026, known for her WSU title reign, Mae Young Classic runs, WWE NXT stint, and ROH Women's Championship, retired after a torn ACL in August 2026.
Mercedes Mason
Mercedes Mason (Mercedes Masohn), born 1982 in Linköping, Sweden, is a Swedish-American actress and former model known for Fear the Walking Dead, The Rookie, 666 Park Avenue, and Quarantine 2: Terminal, later writing and directing shorts.
Mercedes McCambridge
Mercedes McCambridge (Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge, 1916–2004), American radio, film, and stage actress; won the 1949 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for All the King's Men and voiced the demon Pazuzu in The Exorcist.
Mercedes McNab
Mercedes Alicia McNab, Canadian-born retired actress (born 1980, Vancouver) known as Harmony Kendall on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, the Girl Scout in The Addams Family, and Misty in Hatchet.
Mercedes McQueen
Mercedes McQueen is a fictional character in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks, played by Jennifer Metcalfe since June 2006. A McQueen family member known for the Who Shot Mercedes? whodunit, a faked death, and a bowel cancer storyline.
Mercedes Paredes
Mercedes Paredes is a neurologist and physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco who studies perinatal human brain development, known for a 2023 single-cell cortical atlas in Science.
Mercedes Pascual
Mercedes Pascual is a Uruguayan theoretical ecologist at New York University who models infectious diseases, known for linking cholera to El Niño and winning the 2014 MacArthur Award.
Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes Ruehl, born 1948 in Queens, New York, is an American stage, film, and television actress who won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Fisher King and the Tony Award for Lost in Yonkers.
Mercedes Schlapp
Mercedes Schlapp, Cuban-American commentator and lobbyist, co-founder of Cove Strategies, Trump White House Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications (2017-2019), 2020 campaign aide, CPAC senior fellow, and defamation defendant in the 2023 Huffman lawsuit.
Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa (Haydeé Mercedes Sosa, 1935–2009), Argentine folk singer and Nueva Canción icon known as the voice of Latin America; co-founded Nuevo Cancionero, was censored and exiled under the dictatorship, and won three Latin Grammys.
Mercedes W15
Mercedes-AMG F1 W15 E Performance, Mercedes' 2024 Formula One car, launched 14 February 2024 at Silverstone; push-rod rear suspension, new floor concept, raced by Hamilton and Russell, winning races including Las Vegas 1-2.