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Misty (Pokémon)
Misty (Kasumi, カスミ) is the Water-type Cerulean Gym Leader of Pokémon Red and Blue, awarder of the Cascade Badge, and Ash's longest-serving female anime companion, returning full time in the 2023 Aim to Be a Pokémon Master series.
Misty (song)
Misty: jazz standard composed as a piano instrumental by Erroll Garner in 1954 on the album Contrasts, with Johnny Burke lyrics added in 1955; Johnny Mathis's 1959 recording made it a hit.
Misty (미스티) (TV series)
Misty (미스티, Miseuti) is a 2018 JTBC Friday-Saturday mystery thriller, 16 episodes, starring Kim Nam-joo as murder-suspect anchor Go Hye-ran and Ji Jin-hee as her lawyer husband; finale rated 8.452% and Kim Nam-joo won the 2018 Baeksang Best Actress award.
Misty Copeland
Misty Copeland, American ballet dancer born in Kansas City and raised in San Pedro, California; first African American woman promoted to principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre (June 30, 2015), author of Life in Motion, founder of the Misty Copeland Foundation, retired from ABT in October 2025.
Misty Dawn
Misty Dawn, stage name of Laurie Rose (born 1963, Albuquerque), American former adult film performer, John Holmes's widow, publisher of Porn King; distinct from the Nashville country singer Misty Dawn and other namesakes.
Misty Green
Misty Green is a 2026 American drama film written and directed by Chris Rock, starring Rosalind Eleazar as a stalled actress seeking a comeback, with Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, and Anna Kendrick; released by A24 on October 9, 2026 after its TIFF premiere.
Misty Hyman
Misty Hyman (Misty Dawn Marie Hyman), American swimmer born 1979 in Mesa, Arizona; won 200 m butterfly gold at Sydney 2000 upsetting Susie O'Neill; Stanford star, underwater dolphin-kick pioneer, later ASU coach.
Misty in Roots
Misty in Roots are a British roots reggae band formed in Southall, West London, in the mid-1970s, best known for their 1979 live album Live At The Counter Eurovision 79.
Misty Knight
Misty Knight (Mercedes Knight), Marvel Comics detective superheroine created by Tony Isabella and Arvell Jones; first appeared Marvel Premiere #21 (March 1975); Daughters of the Dragon partner of Colleen Wing, Heroes for Hire member with a bionic arm, played by Simone Missick.
Misty May-Treanor
Misty May-Treanor, American retired beach volleyball player; with Kerri Walsh Jennings won Olympic gold in 2004, 2008, 2012; 112 career tournament wins, 43 international wins.
Misty Montes
Misty Montes, also the Misty Mountains of Middle-earth, is a 73 km mountain chain on Titan at 56.8°N, 62.4°W, IAU-named in 2012, seen as a radar bright-dark pairing in Cassini swath T23.
Misty poetry
Misty poetry (朦胧诗) is a school of new Chinese poetry that emerged in the late 1970s, led by Bei Dao, Shu Ting, and Gu Cheng.
Misty Stone
Misty Stone (Michelle Lynn Hall, born 1986) is an American adult film actress from Inglewood, California, active since 2006; 2023 AVN Best Non-Sex Performance winner, Urban X and NightMoves Hall of Famer, known as the "Halle Berry of porn."
Misty Upham
Misty Upham (Misty Anne Upham, 1982-2014) was a Blackfeet American actress known for Frozen River (Lila Littlewolf, Independent Spirit Award nomination), Django Unchained, and August: Osage County; she died in Auburn, Washington, in 2014.
Misua (drag queen)
Misua (Jason Elvie Go Ty, 1998-2026) was a Filipino drag artist and graphic designer from Cagayan de Oro, a Haus of LaFeya member cast for Drag Race Philippines Season 4, who died in her sleep during filming.
Misumena vatia
Misumena vatia, the goldenrod crab spider (Thomisidae, Clerck 1757), is a flower-dwelling ambush predator of bees and flies across Eurasia and North America; females change color white to yellow over 4–7 days, though color-matching does not raise capture success.
Misumi power station
Misumi power station (三隅発電所) is a coal-fired power station operated by Chugoku Electric Power on the coast of Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, with two 1,000 MW ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 1998 and 2022.
Misuse detection
Misuse detection is a security detection approach that identifies attacks by matching observed activity against signatures of known threats, effective against known attacks but blind to zero-day attacks.
Misuse of p-values
Misuse of p-values is the interpretation of p-values in ways their statistical meaning does not support, such as reading them as the probability that a hypothesis is true.
Misuse of statistics
Misuse of statistics, also called abuse of statistics, is the misleading use, presentation, or interpretation of statistical data through deliberate spin, careless error, or misunderstanding, arising in research, journalism, advertising, and politics.
Miswak (مسواك)
Miswak (مسواك), also called siwak, is a chewing stick cut from the Arak tree (Salvadora persica) used as a natural toothbrush across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, with Islamic religious significance, about twenty active constituents, clinical performance comparable to toothbrushing on tooth surfaces but inferior interdentally, and documented risks of gum recession and tooth wear.
MIT Aerospace Controls Laboratory
The MIT Aerospace Controls Laboratory is an MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics research group led by Jonathan P. How that studies autonomous systems and control for aircraft and spacecraft.
MIT Arm
The MIT Arm is a small all-electric manipulator with six rotational joints, designed by Victor Scheinman at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and later manufactured as the Vicarm.
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or AI Lab, was an MIT research laboratory founded in 1959 by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky that merged into CSAIL in 2003.
MIT Blackjack Team
The MIT Blackjack Team: MIT and Harvard students and alumni who beat casinos at blackjack worldwide from the late 1970s to about 2000 using Hi-Lo card counting, spotter and big-player team play, and investor-backed management; subject of Bringing Down the House and the film 21.
Mit brennender Sorge
Mit brennender Sorge ("With Deep Anxiety") is a 1937 encyclical of Pope Pius XI condemning the Nazi breach of the Reichskonkordat, written in German and read from Catholic pulpits across Germany.
MIT Cheetah
MIT Cheetah is a family of electrically actuated quadruped robots developed at MIT's Biomimetic Robotics Lab under Sangbae Kim, known for efficient custom motors and proprioceptive, camera-free locomotion.
MIT Daedalus
MIT Daedalus, a human-powered aircraft, was built by an MIT team that flew it from Crete to Santorini in 1988, setting distance and endurance records for human-powered flight.
MiT family translocation renal cell carcinoma
MiT family translocation renal cell carcinoma (tRCC, Xp11/TFE3 or t(6;11)/TFEB translocation RCC): rare kidney cancer defined by TFE3/TFEB gene fusions, 1-5% of adult RCC, ~40% of pediatric RCC, diagnosed by break-apart FISH.
MIT Introductory Physics Series
The MIT Introductory Physics Series is a set of four introductory physics textbooks by A.P. French, arising from MIT curriculum work begun in 1960, covering relativity, mechanics, waves, and quantum physics.