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Mesquite wood extract
Mesquite wood extract (CAS 93165-66-3, FEMA 3942) is an alcoholic Prosopis wood-chip extract used as a smoky, woody flavoring agent, GRAS via GRN 18 for distilled spirits.
Mesquite, Nevada
Mesquite, Nevada: a Clark County city of about 24,000 on the I-15 corridor between Las Vegas and St. George, Utah, incorporated in 1984, known for golf resorts, casinos, retirees, and 833,000 annual visitors.
Meşrepzâde Ârif Efendi
Meşrepzâde Ârif Efendi, full name Mehmed Ârif Efendi, was an Ottoman ilmiye scholar who served as şeyhülislam from 1854 until his death in office in 1858.
Mesrob
Mesrob (Մեսրոպ Մաշտոց, also Mesrop Mashtots, c. 361–439) was an Armenian monk and saint who invented the 36-letter Armenian alphabet around 405 CE, launching a translation movement that gave Armenia its classical literature.
Mesrop Mashtots
Mesrop Mashtots (Մեսրոպ Մաշտոց), c. 362–440, was an Armenian monk and scholar who created the Armenian alphabet in 405–406 and, with Catholicos Sahak Partev, founded Armenian literature.
Meşrutiyet edebiyatı
Meşrutiyet edebiyatı (Constitutional-era literature) is Ottoman Turkish literature written from 1908 to the Armistice of Mudros in 1918, when lifted censorship opened a free press.
Mess
Mess: military term for a military dining facility and the social organization of those who eat there, from officers' mess to mess hall; covers etymology, mess night, dining in, funding, and national variation.
Message
Message: the content a communicator intends to convey. In psycholinguistics it is the preverbal thought driving language production; in communication theory it is the encoded signal in sender-receiver and code models.
Message authentication code
A message authentication code (MAC), also called an authentication tag, is a cryptographic function using a shared secret key to verify a message's integrity and origin.
Message broker
A message broker is a server-side intermediary that receives messages from producing applications, stores and routes them, and delivers them to consumers; implementations include RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka.
Message from the King (film)
Message from the King is a 2016 revenge thriller directed by Fabrice Du Welz, starring Chadwick Boseman as Jacob King, a Cape Town man seeking his dead sister's killers in Los Angeles; premiered at TIFF 2016 Vanguard.
Message in a bottle
A message in a bottle, also called a drift bottle, is a written message sealed in a bottle and set adrift in the hope a stranger will find it.
Message in a Bottle (film)
Message in a Bottle is a 1999 American romantic drama directed by Luis Mandoki, starring Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, and Paul Newman, based on Nicholas Sparks's novel.
Message passing
Message passing is a communication model in which concurrent programs exchange discrete messages between processes or nodes rather than reading shared memory, underlying Erlang, the actor model, and MPI.
Message passing detection
Message passing detection is an iterative multiuser receiver technique best known from sparse code multiple access, where probabilistic messages on a factor graph jointly detect users' codewords.
Message Passing Interface
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a standard defining communication routines for message passing in parallel computing, the dominant way programs coordinate across cluster and supercomputer memory.
Message passing neural network
A message passing neural network (MPNN) is a graph neural network framework, formalized in 2017, that exchanges messages along edges and excels at molecular property prediction.
Message queue
A message queue is a named destination in a messaging system where messages sent by one program accumulate in storage until another program retrieves and processes them, letting the programs run at different speeds and times.
MessageBird
MessageBird is an Amsterdam-based cloud communications company founded in 2011 by Robert Vis, selling APIs for SMS, voice, email, and WhatsApp; it rebranded as Bird in 2024.
MessagePack
MessagePack is a binary object serialization format similar to JSON in data model but encoded as compact bytes, with type information stored in the data itself.
Messageries Maritimes
Messageries Maritimes was a French shipping company founded in Marseille in 1851 that carried mail, passengers, and cargo across the French colonial empire until its 1977 merger.
Messala (crater)
Messala is a large 122 km lunar impact crater on the northeastern nearside of the Moon, so close to the limb that it appears strongly foreshortened from Earth.
Messali Hadj
Messali Hadj (مسالي الحاج, 1898–1974) was an Algerian nationalist leader, the father of Algerian nationalism, who led independence organizations from the Étoile Nord-Africaine in 1926 to the MNA in 1954.
Messalina
Messalina (Valeria Messalina), third wife of Emperor Claudius, married him around 38 CE, bore Octavia and Britannicus, wed Gaius Silius bigamously in 48 CE, and was executed in the gardens of Lucullus.
Messel pit
Messel pit (Grube Messel), former oil shale quarry near Darmstadt, Germany; Eocene maar lake deposit (48 Ma) with exceptionally preserved fossils of over 1000 species; Germany's first natural UNESCO World Heritage site (1995).
MESSENGER
MESSENGER was a NASA spacecraft that became the first to orbit Mercury, operating from March 2011 until it was deliberately crashed into the planet in April 2015.
Messenger (Andor)
Messenger is episode 7 of Andor season 2 (Star Wars: Andor), written by Dan Gilroy, directed by Janus Metz, aired May 6, 2025 on Disney+. Set in 2 BBY on Yavin 4 and Ghorman, it features a Force healer calling Cassian Andor a messenger and sets up the Ghorman massacre arc.
Messenger (novel)
Messenger (2004) is Lois Lowry's third Giver Quartet novel, a YA dystopia in which Matty, a message runner with healing powers, sacrifices himself to heal Village and Forest; also known as book three of The Giver series.
Messenger (software)
Messenger, also known as Facebook Messenger, is an instant messaging service and app developed by Meta Platforms, offering text, voice, and video communication to more than one billion monthly users.
Messenger (video game)
The Messenger (2018) is Sabotage Studio's ninja action platformer, published by Devolver Digital; it starts as an 8-bit Ninja Gaiden-style game, then shifts to 16-bit Metroidvania exploration via time travel; Metacritic 86.