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Meyer Prinstein

Meyer Prinstein, born Mejer Prinsztejn, was a Poland-born American jumper who won four Olympic gold medals in the long jump and triple jump between 1900 and 1906.

Meyer Turku

Meyer Turku Oy is a Finnish shipbuilding company in Turku, one of the world's leading builders of large cruise ships and part of the German Meyer Group.

Meyer–Schuster rearrangement

The Meyer–Schuster rearrangement is an acid- or metal-catalyzed organic reaction that converts propargylic alcohols into α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds such as enones, first reported by Meyer and Schuster in 1922.

Meyerhold's biomechanics

Meyerhold's biomechanics is Vsevolod Meyerhold's post-revolutionary system of physical actor training, an alternative to Stanislavsky's psychological System, built on reflex theory, Taylorist efficiency, and principles such as otkaz, posil, stoika, and tormos.

Meyers Leonard

Meyers Leonard, born 1992, is a former NBA center drafted 11th overall by Portland in 2012 from Illinois; a stretch-five who shot 39% on threes, he played for the Blazers, Heat, and Bucks, was fined and suspended in 2021 for an antisemitic slur on a livestream, and retired in 2025 to a country-music career in Nashville.

MeyGen

MeyGen is a tidal stream energy project in the Pentland Firth, Scotland, operating four seabed turbines since 2018 and leased for up to 398 MW.

Meykandar

Meykandar (மெய்கண்டார்), also called Meykanda Deva, was a thirteenth-century Tamil Shaiva theologian whose Sivagnana Botham, twelve sutras, is the first of the fourteen Meykanda Sastras shaping Tamil Shaivism.

Meykantadeva

Meykantadeva, also called Meykandar, was a 13th-century Tamil Shaiva teacher at Tiruvennainallur whose twelve-sutra work, the Siva-jnana-bodham, is held as the primary treatise of Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta.

Meyyan bint Shihab

Meyyan bint Shihab Al Said (ميّان بنت شهاب آل سعيد), Omani royal, photographer, digital artist, interior designer, and Chairwoman of the Oman Design Association; first solo exhibition Fragments of Imagination (2021), Arab Women Award 2025.

Meyzieu

Meyzieu, commune in the metropolis of Lyon, Rhône, France, east of Lyon near the airport. Rural village of 2,000 in 1946, near 30,000 by 2010; Gallo-Roman villa, medieval sites La Chapelle and Villardier.

Mezad Thamar

Mezad Thamar (Mezad Tamar, Qasr el-Juheiniya) is a Roman-Byzantine fortress in Israel's northern Negev, 12 km west of the Dead Sea; a 40 x 40 m quadroburgus with central reservoir, Nabatean origins, and mid-Byzantine peak use.

Mežas-Mate Chasma

Mežas-Mate Chasma (Mezas Mate Chasma) is a 506 km diameter chasma, or trough and fracture zone, on Venus at 51.0N, 50.7E, IAU-named in 1985 for a Latvian forest goddess.

Mezcal

Mezcal (Nahuatl mexcalli) is a Mexican distilled agave spirit, 100% agave under NOM-070-SCFI-2016, with a Denomination of Origin since 1994, produced mainly in Oaxaca, distinguished from tequila by agave variety and smoky pit-cooking.

Mezcal worm

The mezcal worm (gusano de maguey) is the larva of the agave redworm moth Comadia redtenbacheri placed in some mezcal bottles since the 1940s as a marketing addition; it is never used in tequila.

Meze

Meze (mezze, maza; Turkish meze, Greek mezedes) is the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern tradition of small shared dishes served in waves with drinks such as rakı, ouzo, or arak, distinct from tapas and antipasto in its hospitality etiquette and open-ended, conversation-paced meal structure.

Mezen

Mezen (Мезень), river in the Komi Republic and Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia; 966 km, basin 78,000 km², flows from the Timan Ridge into Mezen Bay of the White Sea; city of Mezen at its mouth.

Mezentsev (lunar crater)

Mezentsev is an eroded lunar impact crater on the Moon's northern far side, about 84.5 km across (ESA cites 89 km), named for Soviet rocket scientist Yurij Borisovich Mezentsev and approved by the IAU in 1970.

Mezian Mesloub

Mezian Mesloub Soares (Mezian Mesloub), born 2009 in Martigues, is a Lens forward and Portugal U17 international who scored seconds into his Ligue 1 debut in May 2026, son of former Lens and Algeria player Walid Mesloub.

Mézières-en-Santerre

Mézières-en-Santerre, a commune in the Somme (Hauts-de-France, France), canton of Moreuil, about 520 inhabitants, INSEE code 80545, mayor Paul Viollette, with a large Gallo-Roman villa called La Ziep.

Mezigdomide

Mezigdomide (CC-92480, BMS-986348) is an oral cereblon E3 ligase modulator (CELMoD) degrading Ikaros/Aiolos, investigated for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma; SUCCESSOR-2 showed PFS 18.0 vs 8.3 months, FDA NDA accepted 2026.

Mézin

Mézin, Lot-et-Garonne commune in the Pays d'Albret, France; Cluniac Benedictine priory of Saint-Jean mentioned 1077, classified Romanesque-Gothic church of 1840, Calès Jupiter sanctuary, and a 19th-20th century cork industry center.

Mezlocillin

Mezlocillin (Mezlin, Baypen, BAY-F-1353) is a semisynthetic ureidopenicillin beta-lactam antibiotic developed by Bayer, FDA approved in 1981, given parenterally for serious gram-negative infections, and discontinued in the U.S.

Mezokovesd

Mezőkövesd is a town in northern Hungary whose sporting life centers on Mezőkövesd Zsóry FC, founded in 1975, which reached 4th place in the top division in 2019/2020.

Mezraa Teleilat

Mezraa Teleilat (Mezraa-Teleilat Höyüğü) is a Neolithic mound on the Euphrates near Birecik, Şanlıurfa, Turkey, excavated 1999–2004 by Mehmet Özdoğan; notable for continuous PPNB-to-Pottery Neolithic stratigraphy, a rare PPNB fortification wall, and Neo-Assyrian palace remains.

Mezuzah (מזוזה)

A mezuzah (מזוזה, plural mezuzot) is a parchment scroll inscribed with two Deuteronomy passages, affixed to the doorpost of a Jewish home in a case often marked Shaddai.

Mezzanine

A mezzanine, or mezzanine floor, is an intermediate partial level within a building story, open to the level below; building codes count it as part of the story beneath.

Mezzanine (album)

Mezzanine is Massive Attack's third studio album, released 20 April 1998 on Circa/Virgin. A dark trip-hop and post-punk record with Elizabeth Fraser's "Teardrop", it was the band's first UK No. 1 album.

Mezzanine capital

Mezzanine capital, also known as mezzanine debt or mezzanine financing, is subordinated financing that sits between senior secured debt and equity, often carrying warrants or conversion rights.

Mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano: the middle female classical voice type between soprano and contralto (mezzo = Italian for middle), typical range A3–A5, defined by tessitura and timbre rather than extremes; subtypes coloratura, lyric, dramatic; roles include Carmen, Cherubino, Rosina.

Mezzosangue

Mezzosangue is the stage name of Luca Ferrazzi, an Italian rapper from Rome, born in 1991, known for wearing a balaclava since his 2012 debut.