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Mk 2 grenade

The Mk 2 grenade, nicknamed the "pineapple", was the standard fragmentation hand grenade of the United States armed forces from 1918 until its use ended in 1969.

Mk 48 machine gun

The Mk 48 machine gun is a lightweight 7.62mm NATO belt-fed machine gun made by FN Herstal for US special operations, adopted in 2003 to replace the Mk 43.

MK b2b Sonny Fodera

MK b2b Sonny Fodera is a back-to-back DJ pairing of house producers MK (Marc Kinchen) and Sonny Fodera, first billed at Project GLOW 2022 in Washington, DC.

MK Pritzker

MK (Mary Kathryn) Muenster Pritzker, first lady of Illinois since 2019, wife of Governor JB Pritzker; Pritzker Family Foundation leader, Evergreen Invitational founder, Governor's Mansion restorer, and advocate for incarcerated women.

MK Ventures

MK Ventures is the proprietary investment vehicle of Indian investor Madhusudan Kela, a former Reliance Capital strategist, started in January 2018 and based in Mumbai.

Mk-3415

Mk-3415 (actoxumab, CDA1/GS-CDA1) is Merck's fully human monoclonal antibody against C. difficile toxin A; it failed phase 3 MODIFY trials, its arm stopped for safety, and only bezlotoxumab (MK-6072) was approved.

Mk.gee

Mk.gee is the stage name of Michael Todd Gordon, an American singer-songwriter and producer known for his distorted, genre-blurring debut album Two Star & the Dream Police (2024).

Mk44 Bushmaster II

The Mk44 Bushmaster II, also called the Mark 44, is a 30 mm chain gun automatic cannon made by Northrop Grumman, firing NATO-standard 30x173 mm ammunition.

Mkabayi kaJama

Mkabayi kaJama (c. 1750 – c. 1843) was a Zulu princess who served as regent in the 1780s and helped install and later plot the assassination of King Shaka.

MKE Ankaragücü

MKE Ankaragücü, Turkish football club founded 31 August 1910 in Istanbul's İmalat-ı Harbiye, moved to Ankara, won the 1949 national championship and Turkish Cups in 1972 and 1981.

MKE Boran 105 mm howitzer

The MKE Boran is a Turkish 105 mm light towed howitzer built by MKE, helicopter-transportable and ready to fire in under a minute by a crew of five.

MKE MPT

MKE MPT, Turkish for National Infantry Rifle, is a family of battle rifles developed by Turkey's state-owned MKE for the Turkish Armed Forces, led by the 7.62×51 mm MPT-76.

Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi

Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi (Մխիթար Այրիվանեցի) was a 13th-century Armenian vardapet, historian, poet, and composer at Ayrivank monastery, today Geghard near Yerevan, known for a chronicle printed in 1860 as Patmutiwn Hayots.

Mkhitar Gosh

Mkhitar Gosh (Մխիթար Գոշ) was an Armenian vardapet, jurist, and fabulist, author of the 1184 Armenian Law Code and the first literary prose fable collection in Armenian.

Mkhitar Heratsi

Mkhitar Heratsi (Մխիթար Հերացի, c. 1120, Her, now Khoy in Iran – 1200) was a medieval Armenian physician, founder of the Armenian classical and Cilician medical schools and author of Consolation of Fevers.

Mkhitar Sparapet

Mkhitar Sparapet (Մխիթար Սպարապետ), also called Mkhitar Bek, was an Armenian commander, born in Gandzak in the late 17th century, who led the Syunik resistance of 1722–1730 after David Bek died in 1728.

MkLeo

MkLeo (Leonardo Lopez Perez, born 2001) is a Mexican Super Smash Bros. pro, greatest Ultimate player of all time, EVO 2019 winner, PGR v5 #1 in Smash 4, formerly of Echo Fox, T1, and Luminosity Gaming.

MKN1

MKN1 (MKN-1, CVCL_1415) is a human gastric adenosquamous carcinoma cell line established in 1977 from a lymph node metastasis of a 72-year-old Japanese man, carrying a TP53 Val143Ala mutation, E-cadherin promoter hypermethylation, and MSS status.

MKN28

MKN28 (MKN-28, CVCL_1416) is a human gastric tubular adenocarcinoma cell line from a Japanese male's liver metastasis, used as a well-differentiated, EGFR-high, MSS gastric cancer model, but shown to be an MKN74 derivative and listed by ICLAC as misidentified.

MKN45

MKN45 (MKN-45, CVCL_0434) is a human diffuse-type gastric adenocarcinoma cell line from a liver metastasis in a 62-year-old Japanese woman, MET-amplified, microsatellite stable, adherent, and widely used in gastric cancer research.

MKN74

MKN74 (MKN-74, CVCL_2791) is a human gastric tubular adenocarcinoma cell line from a liver metastasis in a 37-year-old Japanese male, intestinal-type, wild-type or mutant p53 reports, doubling time about 44 hours.

MKNK1

MKNK1 (MNK1) is a human gene at 1p33 encoding a serine/threonine kinase activated by ERK and p38 MAPKs that phosphorylates eIF4E at Ser209 via eIF4G docking, regulating translation, inflammation, and cancer; targeted by inhibitors such as tomivosertib.

Mkrtich Khrimian (Մկրտիչ Խրիմեան)

Mkrtich Khrimian (Մկրտիչ Խրիմեան), remembered by Armenians as Khrimian Hayrik, was an Armenian Apostolic monk, publisher, and Catholicos of All Armenians from 1893 until his death in 1907.

MKS Instruments

MKS Instruments, now legally named MKS Inc., is an American supplier of instruments, subsystems, and process control solutions for semiconductor manufacturing, founded in 1961 and headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.

MKTO

MKTO is an American pop/hip-hop duo formed in Los Angeles in 2010 by Malcolm Kelley and Tony Oller after meeting on Nickelodeon's Gigantic; debut single Thank You, double-platinum Classic (Hot 100 #14), and 2014 self-titled album that hit #1 in Australia.

MKUltra

MKUltra (MK-ULTRA, MKULTRA) was a covert CIA human-experimentation program (1953–1973) testing LSD, hypnosis, electroshock, and psychic driving for behavior control across 149 subprojects; ended in failure, exposed in 1977.

Mkwati

Mkwati, born in the Zambezi Valley, was an African religious and military leader of the 1896 to 1897 Umvukela rising in Matabeleland, centered on the Ntaba zika Mambo shrine.

Mkwawa

Mkwawa was the paramount chief of the Hehe people of Uhehe in what is now Tanzania, who defeated a German expeditionary force at Lugalo in 1891.

ML (programming language)

ML is a family of strictly typed functional programming languages created as the Meta Language at the University of Edinburgh in the 1970s, best known through Standard ML.

ML Buch

ML Buch (Marie Louise Buch) is a Copenhagen-based Danish composer, producer, guitarist, and singer; albums Skinned (2020) and the double album Suntub (2023), Pitchfork 2020s list No. 13, recorded in cars, saunas and pools.