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MIDI
MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface, is a specification that lets musical instruments, computers, and lighting controllers exchange performance information such as notes and program changes.
Midi (region)
Le Midi (the Midi) is the French name for southern France, from Old French mi + di, "midday". Cultural region of Occitan speech; term coined in the 1770s; includes Languedoc, Provence, Gascony.
MIDI controller
A MIDI controller is hardware that sends MIDI performance data, like pressed keys and turned knobs, to software or sound-generating hardware, and produces no sound of its own.
Midi Music Festival (迷笛音乐节)
Midi Music Festival (迷笛音乐节), China's oldest rock festival, founded 2000 by Beijing Midi Music School's Zhang Fan; free campus event turned commercial from 2004, known as 'China's Woodstock' and rival to Modern Sky's Strawberry Music Festival.
Midi-Pyrénées (France)
Midi-Pyrénées, former administrative region of southwestern France around Toulouse, capital; eight departments; merged with Languedoc-Roussillon on 1 January 2016 to form Occitanie; 45,348 km2, 2.88 million people in 2010.
miDiagnostics
miDiagnostics is a Leuven, Belgium-based medical diagnostics company spun off from imec in 2015, developing point-of-care tests on a nanofluidic silicon chip that analyzes a drop of blood.
Midian (מִדְיָן)
Midian (מִדְיָן, Madyan) is the biblical land and tribal people east of the Gulf of Aqaba in northwest Arabia, linked to Moses, Jethro, and Qurayyah Painted Ware, formerly called Midianite Pottery.
Midianite pottery
Midianite pottery, known as Qurayyah Painted Ware, is a painted pottery of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, made at Qurayyah in northwest Arabia.
Midica
Midica was a city and Christian episcopal see of Roman Africa, attested only at the Conference of Carthage in 411 through its Donatist bishop Marcus, and now a Catholic titular see.
Mididi
Mididi is an ancient Punic-Roman town in Tunisia, identified with the site of Henchir Midid near Mactar, known for its Neo-Punic inscriptions, a necropolis of 292 dolmens, and a small Severan monument.
Midjourney
Midjourney, also known as Midjourney.com, is a generative AI service creating images and video from text prompts, founded by David Holz in San Francisco in 2021.
Midjourney v5
Midjourney v5 is version 5 of Midjourney's text-to-image model, released in March 2023 as an alpha for subscribers through Discord, whose photorealistic output set off the public debate over AI images passing as real photographs.
Midjourney v6
Midjourney v6 is a text-to-image model from the company Midjourney, released in alpha on December 20, 2023, and the service's default model from February 2024 until v6.1 replaced it in July 2024.
Midjourney v7
Midjourney v7 is a text-to-image model released in alpha by Midjourney on April 3, 2025, featuring Draft Mode, default personalization, and Omni Reference for consistent characters.
Midland (band)
Midland: American neotraditional country trio (Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy, Jess Carson) founded 2013 in Dripping Springs, Texas; known for "Drinkin' Problem" and On the Rocks.
Midland (musician)
Midland, real name Harry Agius, is a British house and techno DJ and producer known for the 2016 track 'Final Credits' and for founding the label Graded.
Midland Basin
The Midland Basin is a sub-basin of the Permian Basin in West Texas, whose Wolfcamp shale alone was assessed by the USGS at a mean 20 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
Midland cogeneration Venture
Midland Cogeneration Venture (MCV) is a natural gas-fired cogeneration plant in Midland County, Michigan, converted from an abandoned nuclear project and generating 1,633 MW of electricity since 1990.
Midland County, Texas, United States
Midland County, Texas: West Texas county on the southern High Plains, seat at Midland, created 1885 from Tom Green County. Center of Permian Basin oil; 169,983 residents in 2020, 187,855 estimated 2025.
Midland Crude Oil
Midland crude oil, usually called WTI Midland, is unblended light sweet crude from the Permian Basin delivered at Midland, Texas, and since 2023 a grade in the Dated Brent benchmark.
Midland Hotel, Manchester
The Midland Hotel, Manchester: Grade II listed Edwardian Baroque railway hotel on Peter Street, built 1898–1903 by Charles Trubshaw for the Midland Railway; where Rolls met Royce in 1904; distinct from the Midland Hotel, Morecambe.
Midland Independent School District
Midland Independent School District (Midland ISD) is a school district serving the city of Midland in Midland County, West Texas, with about 29,000 students at 40 schools.
Midland Main Line
The Midland Main Line (MML) is a UK railway running from London St Pancras to Sheffield via Leicester and Derby, opened in 1870 and operated by East Midlands Railway.
Midland Railway Paget locomotive
The Midland Railway Paget locomotive was a one-off experimental 2-6-2 steam locomotive, numbered 2299, built secretly at Derby in 1908 to Cecil Paget's design and scrapped in 1918 after valve-gear failures.
Midland RockHounds
Midland RockHounds: Double-A Texas League baseball team in Midland, Texas, Athletics affiliate since 1999; formerly Midland Cubs (1972-84) and Midland Angels (1985-98); plays at Momentum Bank Ballpark, opened 2002; 2007 John H. Johnson President's Award winner.
Midland, Michigan
Midland, Michigan: county-seat city of about 42,500 in central Michigan, home of Dow Chemical (founded 1897), over 400 Alden B. Dow mid-century modern buildings, and site of the 2020 Edenville and Sanford dam-failure flood.
Midland, Texas
Midland, Texas, also known as the Tall City, is a city in West Texas and the county seat of Midland County, at the heart of the Permian Basin oil region.
Midlands
The Midlands is the central region of England, split into East and West Midlands, including Birmingham, Coventry, Nottingham, and Derby; a historic industrial and manufacturing heartland with contested North–South boundaries.
Midlands Province
Midlands Province (ZW-MI), central Zimbabwe province with capital Gweru; 49,166 km², 1,811,905 people (2022), eight districts, and the country's industrial and mining corridor for gold, platinum, chrome, and steel.
MİDLAS
MİDLAS (Millî Dikey Atım Lançer Sistemi, National Vertical Launch System) is Turkey's first indigenous naval vertical launching system, developed by Roketsan and first fitted to the frigate TCG İstanbul.