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Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004, GameCube) is Retro Studios' Metroid Prime sequel set on planet Aether and its toxic parallel dimension Dark Aether, featuring Light/Dark beam ammo, Dark and Echo Visors, Dark Samus, and series-first 4-player multiplayer.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a 2007 Wii first-person action-adventure by Retro Studios, the final Metroid Prime trilogy game, featuring Wii Remote pointer aiming, the PED Hypermode mechanic, Dark Samus, and a 90/100 Metacritic score.
Metroid Prime Hunters
Metroid Prime Hunters (2006) is a Nintendo DS first-person shooter by Nintendo Software Technology; Samus races six rival hunters (Trace, Weavel, Noxus, Spire, Kanden, Sylux) for ultimate power in the Alimbic Cluster, with stylus aiming and four-player Wi-Fi multiplayer.
Metroid Prime: Federation Force
Metroid Prime: Federation Force is a 2016 cooperative first-person shooter for the Nintendo 3DS, developed by Next Level Games, in which players pilot Mechs as Galactic Federation marines.
Metroid: Other M
Metroid: Other M is a 2010 Wii action-adventure by Team Ninja and Nintendo, produced by Yoshio Sakamoto. First voiced Samus, third-person play with first-person Wii Remote aiming; Metacritic 79 critics, 6.7 users.
Metroid: Samus Returns
Metroid: Samus Returns is a 2017 Nintendo 3DS action-adventure game, a full reimagining of the 1991 Game Boy Metroid II: Return of Samus, developed by MercurySteam with Nintendo, adding melee counter, Free Aim, and Aeion abilities; Metascore 85.
Metroid: Zero Mission
Metroid: Zero Mission (メトロイド ゼロミッション) is Nintendo's 2004 Game Boy Advance remake of the original 1986 Metroid, directed by Yoshio Sakamoto, adding the Zero Suit stealth segment, Fusion connectivity, and the original Metroid unlock; Metascore 89.
Metroidvania
Metroidvania: a video game genre of interconnected, ability-gated worlds with backtracking, named for Metroid (1986) and Castlevania; template set by Super Metroid and Symphony of the Night, now led by indie hits like Hollow Knight and Silksong.
Metrojet Flight 9268
Metrojet Flight 9268 was a Russian charter flight from Sharm El Sheikh to Saint Petersburg destroyed by a bomb over Sinai on 31 October 2015, killing all 224 aboard.
MetroLink (St. Louis)
MetroLink is the light rail system of St. Louis, Missouri, opened in 1993 and running two lines across 46 miles and 38 stations in Missouri and Illinois.
Metrolink rolling stock
Metrolink rolling stock is the fleet of locomotives, passenger cars, and cab cars operated by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority for Metrolink commuter rail in Southern California.
Metrologia
Metrologia is an international peer-reviewed journal on the science of measurement, founded in 1965 and published on behalf of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures by IOP Publishing.
Metrological traceability
Metrological traceability is the property of a measurement result that relates it to a reference, such as an SI unit, through a documented unbroken chain of calibrations.
Metrology
Metrology is the science of measurement, covering the definition of internationally accepted units, their realization as physical standards in national laboratories, and the traceability of everyday instruments, including legal metrology for trade devices.
Metrom Pentapod
The Metrom Pentapod is a 5-axis machine tool built by METROM in Hartmannsdorf, Germany, in which five ball-screw struts move the spindle inside a rigid icosahedron frame.
Metronet (fiber broadband provider)
Metronet is an American fiber-to-the-home broadband provider founded in 2005 in Evansville, Indiana, operating in 19 states until its 2025 acquisition by T-Mobile and KKR.
Metronidazole
Metronidazole (Flagyl) is a synthetic 5-nitroimidazole antibiotic and antiprotozoal drug developed at Rhône-Poulenc in 1957 from azomycin, used against obligate anaerobes, trichomoniasis, amebiasis, and giardiasis, with an 8-hour half-life and alcohol interaction.
Metronome
A metronome is a device producing regular beats at a user-set tempo, patented by Johann Maelzel in 1815 and used by musicians to practice at a defined speed.
Metronome Records
Metronome Records, also known as Metronome Musik, is a record label founded in Stockholm in 1949 by the brothers Anders and Lars Burman and Börje Ekberg to release jazz.
Metronomic chemotherapy
Metronomic chemotherapy is a way of giving cancer drugs continuously at low, largely non-toxic doses with no prolonged drug-free breaks, in contrast to conventional maximum-tolerated-dose cycles with rest periods.
Metronomy
Metronomy: English electropop/indie rock band formed 1999 in Totnes, Devon by Joseph Mount; Mercury-nominated The English Riviera (2011), albums through Small World (2022) and 2025's Greatest Hits.
Metroon at Olympia
Metroon at Olympia: small Doric temple in the Altis, early 4th century BC, dedicated to Rhea-Cybele, Mother of the Gods; converted from Augustus onward into a center for the Roman imperial cult.
Metropark station
Metropark station, also called Metropark, New Jersey, is a major NJ TRANSIT and Amtrak rail station in Iselin, New Jersey, opened in 1971 as the state's first park-and-ride station.
Metrophanes II
Metrophanes II was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1440 to 1443, a unionist who signed the Union of Florence and faced fierce anti-union resistance until his sudden death in office.
Metrophanes III
Metrophanes III, born Georgios of Bulgarian descent around 1520 in Constantinople, was Ecumenical Patriarch twice, from 1565 to 1572 and from 1579 to 1580, and in 1568 threatened excommunication for anyone on Crete who oppressed Jews.
Metroplasty
Metroplasty is a surgical procedure, now performed almost entirely through the hysteroscope, that corrects congenital uterine malformations, above all the septate uterus, to improve reproductive outcomes.
Metropol (almanac)
Metropol (Метрополь) was an uncensored literary almanac compiled by prominent Soviet writers in Moscow in December 1978, blocked by censors, and published in the West by Ardis in 1979.
Metropolis
Metropolis (Greek metropolis, "mother city") means a large city plus its economically dependent commuting zone. Defined via OECD functional urban areas, US MSAs, and UN Degree of Urbanization; megacities reached 33 in 2025.
Metropolis (1927 film)
Metropolis (1927) is Fritz Lang's German silent science-fiction film, premiered in Berlin, cut after release, and restored in 2010 from a Buenos Aires print; first film on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
Metropolis (comics)
Metropolis is the fictional DC Comics city, home of Superman, first named in Action Comics #16 (September 1939). Nicknamed the Big Apricot and City of Tomorrow, it is usually placed in Delaware across from Gotham City, inspired by Cleveland, New York, and Toronto.