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Mitzvah (מִצְוָה)
Mitzvah (מִצְוָה), plural mitzvot, is a commandment or religious duty in Judaism; rabbinic tradition counts 613 commandments given to Moses at Sinai, though it does not specify which.
Miu Goto
Miu Goto (後藤 希友, Gotō Miu), born 2001, Japanese left-handed softball pitcher for Toyota Red Terriers; Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist with 10.2 scoreless innings, later World Cup gold and World Games medals.
Miu Miu
Miu Miu, Miuccia Prada's 1993-founded luxury fashion brand within the Prada Group, named after her nickname, shows in Paris and is known for Women's Tales films, the viral SS22 micro mini skirt, and record retail growth (+93% in FY2024).
Miu Quansun
Miu Quansun (缪荃孙, 1844–1919) was a Chinese scholar, bibliographer, and librarian of the late Qing dynasty who founded China's first public libraries and later served as a chief compiler of the draft History of Qing.
Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Prada (Maria Bianchi, born 1949) is the Italian designer who turned her grandfather's 1913 Milan leather goods house into Prada and founded Miu Miu (1993) and Fondazione Prada; co-creative director of Prada with Raf Simons since 2020.
MIUI
MIUI was Xiaomi's custom Android interface, first released in 2010 and running on most Xiaomi, Redmi, and POCO devices until Xiaomi replaced it with HyperOS in 2024.
Miura fold
The Miura fold, or Miura-ori, is a rigid origami crease pattern named after Koryo Miura of the University of Tokyo, used to pack solar panels on spacecraft, flown in 1995.
Miura Yoshizumi
Miura Yoshizumi (三浦義澄; 1127–1200) was a Japanese warrior who led the Miura band of Sagami and served as a senior vassal of the Kamakura shogunate.
Mius offensive
The Mius offensive (Міуська операція) was a Soviet attack by the Southern Front against the German Mius River line in the Donbas, from 17 July to 2 August 1943.
Mivacurium
Mivacurium (Mivacron) is a short-acting, non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent, a benzylisoquinolinium diester hydrolyzed by plasma cholinesterase; FDA-approved 1992, now discontinued.
MIVEC
MIVEC (Mitsubishi Innovative Valve timing and lift Electronic Control) is Mitsubishi Motors' variable valve timing and lift technology, first installed in the Mirage and Lancer in 1992.
Miwa Harimoto (張本美和)
Miwa Harimoto (張本美和, born 2008, Sendai) is a Japanese right-handed shakehand table tennis player, sister of Tomokazu. Paris 2024 women's team silver at 16, three World Championship podiums, world No. 3 in 2026.
Miwok villages
Miwok villages were the named settlements of the Plains Miwok and Sierra Miwok peoples of California, with over 100 villages recorded by name in early ethnography.
Mix
Mix (ミックス) is a fixed chant shouted by fans during instrumental breaks at Japanese idol concerts, best known as "Tiger, Fire, Cyber, Fiber, Diver, Baiba, Ja Ja."
Mix Master (카드왕 믹스마스터)
Mix Master (카드왕 믹스마스터, Mix Master: King of Cards) is a 2005 South Korean TV anime by KBS and Sunwoo Entertainment based on the MMORPG Mix Master, in which children in Gamebridge mix card-summoned Henches; a 39-episode second season, Final Force, followed in 2010.
Mix network
A mix network, or mixnet, is an anonymous communication system that routes messages through relay servers called mixes, which cryptographically transform and delay each packet to prevent tracing.
Mix Nine (믹스나인)
Mix Nine (믹스나인) was a 2017–2018 JTBC idol survival audition show produced by YG Entertainment's Yang Hyun-suk; the winning boy team's debut was canceled, prompting a damage suit.
Mix Tape (miniseries)
Mix Tape is a 2025 four-part Australian-Irish romantic drama miniseries adapted from Jane Sanderson's novel, starring Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess as Sheffield teenage sweethearts who reconnect decades later through shared songs, airing on Binge and BBC2.
Mixamo
Mixamo is a free, web-based service owned by Adobe that automatically rigs uploaded humanoid 3D models and applies motion-captured animations downloaded for use in games, film, and illustration.
MixC World (万象天地) (Shenzhen)
MixC World (万象天地) is China Resources Land's open-air "block + mall" retail complex in Nanshan, Shenzhen, opened 27 September 2017 on the former Dachong Village urban renewal site, with about 230,000 m² GFA, nearly 300 stores, and a one-street, one-lane, five-squares layout.
Mixco
Mixco, Guatemala: municipality west of Guatemala City founded 1526 as Santo Domingo Mixco; Pokomam roots, Mixco Viejo conquest, 508,148 estimated 2026 residents, Mixco fault hazard.
Mixcoac
Mixcoac is a small INAH archaeological zone in Benito Juárez, Mexico City, a Mexica-era (900-1521 CE) ceremonial center with a pyramid to the cloud-serpent god Mixcoatl, free to visit, opened to the public in 2019.
Mixcoatl
Mixcoatl, meaning "cloud serpent," was a Mesoamerican god of hunting, war, and storms, associated with the Milky Way and the Chichimecs, and in legend the father of Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl.
Mixcoatl Fluctus
Mixcoatl Fluctus is a 246 km lava flow field (fluctus) on Jupiter's moon Io, centered at 46.32S, 141.15W, named for the Aztec storm god; a volcanic plume was seen there by JunoCam in 2024.
Mixed anhydride
A mixed anhydride is a compound with two different acyl groups bonded to the same oxygen atom, more reactive than symmetrical anhydrides and widely used in peptide coupling, though most disproportionate rapidly.
Mixed connective tissue disease
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD, Sharp syndrome) is a systemic autoimmune overlap disease of SLE, systemic sclerosis, and polymyositis features with high-titer anti-U1-RNP antibodies, first described in 1972.
Mixed Courts of Egypt
The Mixed Courts of Egypt (المحاكم المختلطة), designed by Nubar Pasha, heard civil and commercial cases involving foreigners in place of the consular courts until 1949.
Mixed data sampling regression
Mixed data sampling (MIDAS) regression is an econometric method that regresses a low-frequency variable, such as quarterly GDP growth, on more frequently sampled predictors, like monthly indicators, using parsimonious distributed lag weights.
Mixed depressive and anxiety disorder
Mixed depressive and anxiety disorder is an ICD-11 mood disorder (code 6A73) in which anxiety and depression symptoms coexist for two weeks or more, each below the threshold for a separate diagnosis.
Mixed design (statistics)
A mixed design is an experimental design combining a between-groups factor with a within-subjects repeated-measures factor, also called a split-plot design and commonly used in pretest-posttest studies.