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Metropolis (メトロポリス) (2001 film)
Metropolis (メトロポリス) is a 2001 Japanese anime film directed by Rintaro, scripted by Katsuhiro Otomo from Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga, animated by Madhouse, released by Toho; detective Kenichi and Tima in a divided robot-human city.
Metropolis Healthcare
Metropolis Healthcare is an Indian diagnostics company headquartered in Mumbai, running a chain of pathology labs and patient service centers across India and five African countries.
Metropolis of Kyiv
The Metropolis of Kyiv (Київська митрополія) was the Orthodox ecclesiastical province of Kyivan Rus', founded after the Christianization of 988 and transferred to Moscow in 1686.
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory is a 1999 concept album by Dream Theater, its first with keyboardist Jordan Rudess, telling a story of past lives and murder.
Metropolis Technologies
Metropolis Technologies is a Los Angeles AI company whose computer vision platform enables checkout-free "drive in, drive out" parking, founded in 2017 by Alex Israel and others.
Metropolis–Hastings algorithm
The Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, also called the Metropolis method, is a Markov chain Monte Carlo method that samples from a probability distribution known only up to a normalizing constant.
Metropolitan Alexis
Metropolitan Alexis (Алексий, митрополит Московский и всея Руси) headed the Russian Church from 1354 to 1378 and ruled Moscow as regent for the young Dmitry Donskoy.
Metropolitan Alexius
Metropolitan Alexius (Алексий; in baptism Eleutherius) led the Russian Church as metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus and, from 1359, headed Moscow's government as regent for the child Dmitry Donskoy.
Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)
Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) was a Russian Orthodox bishop who led the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad from its founding in 1920 until his death in 1936.
Metropolitan area
Metropolitan area: a city plus its economically integrated commuter belt, also called a functional urban area (FUA). Defined by commuting flows, not administrative borders; EU-OECD standard covers about 1,200 FUAs, and the US OMB delineates 387 MSAs.
Metropolitan area network
A metropolitan area network (MAN), or metro network, is a data communication network spanning a city or urban district, connecting multiple LANs, typically built on fiber or WiMAX.
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is the public transit agency for metropolitan Atlanta, operating heavy rail, buses, and the Atlanta Streetcar since its creation in 1965.
Metropolitan Bank & Trust
Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company, known as Metrobank, is a Philippine universal bank founded by George S.K. Ty in 1962 and the country's second largest private bank by assets.
Metropolitan Benjamin of Petrograd
Metropolitan Benjamin of Petrograd (Митрополит Вениамин), born Vasily Pavlovich Kazansky, led the Russian Orthodox Petrograd diocese from 1917 and was executed by Soviet authorities in 1922.
Metropolitan bishop
A metropolitan bishop is the senior bishop of an ecclesiastical province: in Catholic law the archbishop over suffragan dioceses, in Orthodox usage the bishop of a chief city.
Metropolitan Board of Works
The Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) was the principal local government body for London from 1855 to 1889, built Bazalgette's main drainage system and the Thames embankments, and was replaced by the London County Council.
Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley
The Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, also known as Barnsley Metropolitan Borough, is a metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England, governed from the town of Barnsley.
Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
Metropolitan Borough of Bolton (E08000001), a Greater Manchester metropolitan district created 1 April 1974 from the old County Borough of Bolton plus Farnworth, Kearsley, Horwich, Blackrod, Westhoughton, Little Lever, and South Turton; population 295,963 (2021).
Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead
Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead: Tyne and Wear metropolitan borough formed 1 April 1974, on the south bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle; 55 square miles, over 200,000 people, 66 councillors in 22 wards.
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham: Greater Manchester metropolitan district (E08000004), created 1 April 1974 from the County Borough of Oldham plus Chadderton, Failsworth, Crompton, Royton, Lees, and Saddleworth; population about 252,000, governed by Oldham Council.
Metropolitan Borough of Solihull
The Metropolitan Borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England, created on 1 April 1974 and governed by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council.
Metropolitan Borough of St Helens
Metropolitan Borough of St Helens: Merseyside metropolitan district formed 1 April 1974, governed from St Helens town hall; over 180,000 people, 18 wards, two town centres (St Helens, Earlestown), Liverpool City Region Combined Authority member.
Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
Metropolitan Borough of Wigan: Greater Manchester borough created 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 from 14 Lancashire districts; first mayor Robert Matthew Lyons; population about 329,300 (2021).
Metropolitan City of Messina
Metropolitan City of Messina (Città metropolitana di Messina), a Sicilian wide-area authority created by Regional Law 15/2015 replacing the Province of Messina; 3,266 km², about 600,000 people, 108 municipalities, governed by a Metropolitan Mayor and Council.
Metropolitan Commission of Sewers
The Metropolitan Commission of Sewers administered London's sewers outside the City from 1847 to 1855, employing Joseph Bazalgette before the Metropolitan Board of Works replaced it.
Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago
Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago (MCC Chicago), a Federal Bureau of Prisons administrative-security jail at 71 West Van Buren Street, a 1975 Harry Weese triangular tower holding pretrial federal detainees for the Northern District of Illinois.
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York (MCC New York), 150 Park Row federal jail opened 1975, held SDNY pretrial detainees including Gotti, Madoff, El Chapo; Epstein died there 2019; closed 2021.
Metropolitan Cyprian
Metropolitan Cyprian (Киприан) was a Bulgarian-born monk of Mount Athos who headed the Orthodox metropolitanate of Kiev and all Rus' from 1390 until his death in 1406.
Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn
MDC Brooklyn, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is the Federal Bureau of Prisons' administrative jail holding pretrial detainees for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, about 1,300 inmates, site of the 2019 week-long power outage and, since June 2025, an ICE detention facility.
Metropolitan Filaret (Drozdov)
Metropolitan Filaret (Drozdov), born Vasily Mikhailovich Drozdov, was the leading Russian Orthodox theologian of the 19th century, metropolitan of Moscow from 1826 until his death in 1867, who drafted the 1861 emancipation manifesto.