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Mock the Week
Mock the Week (MTW) is a British topical satirical panel show created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, hosted by Dara Ó Briain with regular Hugh Dennis; it ran 21 series on BBC Two 2005–2022, was axed, and revived on TLC in 2026 with hour-long episodes and further series to 2027.
Mock trial
Mock trial: simulated courtroom exercise in which students play attorneys, witnesses, and judges. Distinct from appellate moot court; spans 14th-century origins, NHSMTC and AMTA competitions, and professional training.
Mock turtle soup
Mock turtle soup is an English imitation of green turtle soup, traditionally made from a calf's head. First printed in Hannah Glasse's 1758 Art of Cookery, it became a Victorian staple, inspired Carroll's Mock Turtle, and survives in Cincinnati.
Mock-heroic
Mock-heroic is a satirical literary mode that treats trivial subjects with the elevated style of epic, producing comic incongruity, as in Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
Mockbuster
Mockbusters are low-budget films mimicking a blockbuster's theme and title, released direct-to-video alongside the imitated film; The Asylum, founded 1997, pioneered the model with its 2005 War of the Worlds and titles like Transmorphers and Snakes on a Train.
Mockbuster (film)
Mockbuster (2025) is Anthony Frith's feature documentary about directing The Land That Time Forgot for The Asylum, the Sharknado mockbuster studio, in six days in Adelaide; it won the Adelaide Film Festival Audience Award and released in 2026.
Mocking of Jesus
The mocking of Jesus, or Mocking of Christ, is the ridicule and abuse of Jesus by Sanhedrin attendants, Herod's guards, and Roman soldiers before his crucifixion.
Mockingbird
Mockingbird, chiefly the northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), a Mimidae songbird famed for mimicry; sings repeated phrases, both sexes sing, ~43 million birds, low conservation concern, open-ended learning questioned.
Mockingbird (Eminem song)
Mockingbird (Eminem song): 2004 track 16 on Encore, released as a single April 25, 2005, written with Luis Resto; a lullaby to Hailie and Alaina, peaked No. 11 on the Hot 100, 4x Platinum.
Mockingbird (Game of Thrones)
Mockingbird is the seventh episode of Game of Thrones season 4 (37th overall), aired May 18, 2014 on HBO, written by Benioff and Weiss, directed by Alik Sakharov. Named for Littlefinger's sigil; Tyrion finds champion Oberyn, and Littlefinger kills Lysa at the Moon Door.
Mockingbird (Marvel Comics)
Mockingbird (Marvel Comics) is Dr. Barbara "Bobbi" Morse, a S.H.I.E.L.D. biologist-spy and Avenger created in 1971's Astonishing Tales, named Mockingbird in Marvel Team-Up #95 (1980), known for battle staves and her Hawkeye marriage.
Mockingjay
Mockingjay (2010) by Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, is the third and final Hunger Games trilogy novel, following Katniss Everdeen as rebel symbol; adapted as two films (2014, 2015), distinct from the mockingjay bird symbol and the arXiv speech model.
Mockumentary
Mockumentary: a fictional film or TV show presented in documentary style to make invented events seem real. Also called mock-documentary or docucomedy. Named by Rob Reiner for This Is Spinal Tap (1984); early landmarks include Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast; boomed on TV with The Office and Modern Family.
Mockup
A mockup, also written mock-up, is a scale or full-size model of a design built for study, testing, demonstration, or training, used in construction, aerospace, industrial design, and software.
Moclobemide
Moclobemide (Ro 11-1163, Aurorix) is a reversible, selective MAO-A inhibitor (RIMA) antidepressant synthesized in 1972, launched in Europe in 1992, never US-approved, dosed 300-600 mg/day.
MoCo (machine learning)
MoCo (Momentum Contrast) is a contrastive self-supervised learning framework for visual representations, introduced by Kaiming He and colleagues at CVPR 2020, using a momentum-updated encoder and a queue of keys.
Moctezuma I
Moctezuma I (Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina, Huehuemotecuhzoma, 'Moctezuma the Elder', c. 1390-1469), fifth Aztec king of Tenochtitlan r. 1440-1469: expansion to the Huasteca and Oaxaca, the 1450s famine, flower wars, Chapultepec aqueduct, and Templo Mayor construction; distinct from Moctezuma II.
Moctezuma II
Moctezuma II (Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, 1467-1520), ninth huey tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and last sovereign Mexica ruler (1502-1520): consolidated the Aztec tribute empire, met Cortés on 8 November 1519, died in contested captivity in 1520.
Mocuba
Mocuba, city and district in Zambézia Province, Mozambique, on the Licungo and Lugela rivers; about 124,650 city residents, tea-cotton-timber transit hub, EU-funded Milange road, planned Assembly of the Republic seat.
MOD (file format)
MOD is a tracker music file format created in 1987 with Ultimate SoundTracker on the Commodore Amiga, combining audio samples and pattern data in one file.
Mod (subculture)
Mods (modernists), a British youth subculture from late-1950s London built on sharp tailored fashion, soul and R&B music, Vespa and Lambretta scooters, and the 1964 clashes with Rockers and 1979 revival.
MOD St Athan
MOD St Athan, formerly RAF St Athan, is a Ministry of Defence station in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, opened in 1938 as the RAF's main technical training base.
Mod Sun
Mod Sun (Derek Ryan Smith, b. 1987, Bloomington, Minnesota): American rapper-turned-pop-punk singer; name means Movement on Dreams, Stand Under None; albums Look Up, BB, Internet Killed the Rockstar, God Save The Teen.
Moda Center
Moda Center (formerly Rose Garden, 1995) is Portland, Oregon's largest arena, home of the NBA Trail Blazers and WNBA Fire; city-owned since 2024, with a $365 million state-funded renovation planned.
Modadugu Vijay Gupta
Modadugu Vijay Gupta, born 1939, is an Indian fisheries biologist who pioneered low-cost pond aquaculture for the rural poor, earning the 2005 World Food Prize and the label Blue Revolution.
Modafinil
Modafinil (Provigil) is a Schedule IV wakefulness-promoting drug approved in 1998 for narcolepsy sleepiness, also used for OSA and shift work disorder in the US but restricted to narcolepsy in the EU.
Modakeke
Modakeke is a town in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria, settled around 1830 by Oyo-speaking refugees on land granted by the Ooni of Ile-Ife, its neighbor and long-standing rival in one of Nigeria's most persistent communal disputes.
Modal (company)
Modal, formally Modal Labs, is a New York cloud computing company founded in 2021 by Erik Bernhardsson that offers a serverless platform for AI workloads on CPUs and GPUs.
Modal (textile)
Modal is a regenerated cellulosic fiber made from dissolving wood pulp by a modified viscose process and engineered for a high wet modulus, giving fabrics unusual softness and wash durability.
Modal algebra
A modal algebra, also called a Magari algebra, is a Boolean algebra equipped with a normal operator representing a modal connective, providing the algebraic semantics of propositional modal logic.