edgepedia

All articles starting with M

36,687 articles

Millennium Park

Millennium Park is a 24.5-acre public park in Grant Park in downtown Chicago, opened in 2004 and home to Cloud Gate, the sculpture known as the Bean.

Millennium Pipeline

The Millennium Pipeline is a 266-mile interstate natural gas pipeline in southern New York, running from Corning to Ramapo and delivering shale gas to New York and New England.

Millennium Prize Problems

The Millennium Prize Problems, also called the Clay Prize problems, are seven central mathematical questions named in 2000, each carrying a $1 million prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Millennium Simulation

The Millennium Simulation, also called the Millennium Run, is a 2004 computer simulation of dark matter structure growth, run by the Virgo Consortium and published in 2005.

Millennium Stadium

Millennium Stadium (Principality Stadium since 2016), Cardiff's 73,931-seat national rugby stadium, opened June 1999 for the Rugby World Cup with the UK's first fully retractable roof; hosted the 1999 RWC Final and six FA Cup Finals.

Millennium Star Atlas

The Millennium Star Atlas is a three-volume all-sky printed star atlas published in 1997 by Sky Publishing and ESA, charting about one million stars to magnitude 11 on 1,548 charts.

Millennium Technology Prize

The Millennium Technology Prize is a biennial, one-million-euro award given by Finland's Technology Academy Finland for groundbreaking innovations, first awarded in 2004 to Tim Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web.

Millennium Tower (San Francisco)

Millennium Tower, nicknamed the Leaning Tower of San Francisco, is a 58-story luxury residential skyscraper at 301 Mission Street, completed in 2009 and stabilized after sinking about 18 inches.

Millennium-XXL

Millennium-XXL (MXXL) is a large cosmological N-body simulation of structure formation in a dark matter universe, run with 303 billion particles in a 4.1 Gpc cube.

Millepora alcicornis

Millepora alcicornis, branching fire coral, a stinging hydrozoan reef builder of the tropical Atlantic, the only amphi-Atlantic Millepora species, growing 1 to 40 m deep and listed Endangered by IUCN in 2024.

Miller Brewing Company

Miller Brewing Company, founded in Milwaukee in 1855 by Frederick Miller from the Plank Road Brewery, became the second largest US brewer under Philip Morris with Miller Lite and Miller Genuine Draft, and its US brands now sit in the MillerCoors joint venture under Molson Coors Beverage Company.

Miller cycle

The Miller cycle is an engine cycle with a shorter compression stroke than expansion stroke, achieved by closing the intake valve early or late, usually in turbocharged engines.

Miller effect

The Miller effect, or Miller capacitance, makes a feedback capacitor at an amplifier's input look (1 + gain) times larger, limiting bandwidth; the cascode reduces it.

Miller Fisher syndrome

Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS, Fisher syndrome) is a rare variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome defined by the triad of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and areflexia, linked to anti-GQ1b antibodies and usually self-limiting recovery.

Miller Huggins

Miller Huggins (1878-1929), "Mighty Mite," Hall of Fame manager (1964) who led the Yankees to six AL pennants and three World Series titles (1923, 1927, 1928) with a 1,413-1,134 record; earlier Reds and Cardinals second baseman.

Miller index

A Miller index is a set of three integers (hkl) identifying the orientation of a plane, or family of parallel planes, in a crystal lattice, introduced in 1839.

Miller Lite

Miller Lite, also known as Miller Light, is an American light lager brewed by Miller Brewing Company. Launched in 1975, it is known for its 96 calories and 4.2% ABV.

Miller Moss

Miller Moss, American football quarterback from Bishop Alemany High School; USC (2021-24) backup to Caleb Williams, record 6-TD 2023 Holiday Bowl MVP; Louisville starter 2025; signed by Chicago Bears as 2026 undrafted free agent.

Miller Steam Plant

The Miller Steam Plant, formally the James H. Miller, Jr. Electric Generating Plant and commonly called Plant Miller, is a coal-fired power station in West Jefferson, Alabama.

Miller test

The Miller test, from Miller v. California (1973), is the three-part U.S. Supreme Court standard for obscenity: prurient appeal under community standards, patent offensiveness, and lack of serious value.

Miller v. California

Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), the U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing the three-prong Miller test for obscenity (prurient interest, patent offensiveness, lack of serious value), replacing Memoirs and permitting local community standards.

Miller–Rabin primality test

The Miller–Rabin primality test is a randomized algorithm deciding whether an odd integer is prime; introduced by Gary Miller in 1976 and made unconditional by Michael Rabin in 1980.

Miller–Urey experiment

The Miller–Urey experiment, also called the Miller experiment, was a 1952 University of Chicago study in which Stanley Miller, Harold Urey's graduate student, sparked simple gases to form amino acids.

Miller's Crossing

Miller's Crossing (1990) is the Coen brothers' Prohibition-era gangster noir starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro, and Marcia Gay Harden, inspired by Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest and The Glass Key, released by 20th Century Fox and Circle Films.

Miller's Girl

Miller's Girl is a 2024 Lionsgate erotic thriller, the feature debut of writer-director Jade Halley Bartlett, starring Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman as a student and teacher entangled by a writing assignment; it earned 30% on Rotten Tomatoes and reached No. 2 on Netflix.

MillerCoors

MillerCoors: U.S. and Puerto Rico beer joint venture of Molson Coors and SABMiller, formed 2007, launched 2008, second-largest U.S. brewer, fully acquired by Molson Coors in 2016.

Millerism

Millerism, also called the Millerite movement, was an American Second Advent movement of the 1830s and 1840s, founded on William Miller's prediction that Christ would return around 1843.

Millers in Marriage

Millers in Marriage is a 2025 Edward Burns drama about three middle-aged New York siblings, Eve, Maggie, and Andy, facing marital strain. Premiered at TIFF 2024, released February 21, 2025 by Republic Pictures; 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 49.

Millers Point & Dawes Point Village Precinct

The Millers Point & Dawes Point Village Precinct is a heritage-listed historic residential area on a sandstone peninsula in Sydney Harbour, near the city's center.

Millers Point Conservation Area

Millers Point Conservation Area: heritage-listed intact residential and maritime precinct in Sydney, NSW, on the State Heritage Register since 1999 (SHR #00884), with LEP 2012 height controls and a 2014 social housing sales program.