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Monimiaceae
Monimiaceae Juss. (nom. cons., 1809) is a family of about 200 species of aromatic evergreen trees and shrubs in Laurales, centered in New Guinea and the southern hemisphere, with an extensive Cretaceous fossil record.
Monin–Obukhov similarity theory
Monin–Obukhov similarity theory (MOST) is a semiempirical framework in boundary-layer meteorology, set out by Obukhov in 1946 and Monin in 1954, that remains the standard method for computing surface fluxes in weather and climate models.
Monique Alexander
Monique Alexander (Monique Alexandra Rock, born 1982, Vallejo, California) is an American adult film performer, Vivid contract star, multi-time AVN Award winner, and 2017 AVN Hall of Fame inductee with mainstream credits including Entourage and Crank: High Voltage.
Monique Appeaning
Monique Appeaning is an American Republican candidate for the US House in Louisiana's 6th Congressional District in 2026, previously Assistant Commissioner of Louisiana's Division of Administration.
Monique Barbut
Monique Barbut is a French politician serving as Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Climate Negotiations, whose July 2026 resignation in protest against the agricultural emergency law was refused.
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder is a Dutch-born human behavioral ecologist and anthropologist known for field-based tests of evolutionary hypotheses about marriage, family, and resource management, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Monique Chandler-Waterman
Monique Chandler-Waterman is an American Democratic politician who represents Brooklyn's 58th district in the New York State Assembly, elected in May 2022 to succeed Nick Perry.
Monique Coleman
Monique Coleman (born 1980) is an American actress and youth advocate, best known as Taylor McKessie in Disney's High School Musical films and as the United Nations' first Youth Champion, appointed in 2010, later an FAO Champion and Gimme Mo' host.
Monique DeSpain
Monique DeSpain is an American politician, retired Air Force colonel, and attorney who is the Republican 2026 nominee for Oregon's 4th Congressional District, challenging Val Hoyle.
Monique Ernst
Monique Ernst is a neuroscientist at the NIMH in Bethesda known for the triadic model of adolescent motivated behavior and PET and fMRI studies of ADHD and anxiety.
Monique Gabriela Curnen
Monique Gabriela Curnen (born September 7; year given as 1970 or 1977 by different sources) is an American actress and producer known for Half Nelson, The Dark Knight's Detective Ramirez, Blanca Rodriguez in Power, and the 2005 Webby-winning Weapons of Misdirection.
Monique Garbrecht Enfeldt
Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (born 1968, Potsdam) is a German sprint speed skater, five-time World Sprint champion, 2002 Olympic 500 m silver and 1992 1,000 m bronze medalist, and former 1,000 m world record holder.
Monique Hennagan
Monique Hennagan (born 1976, Columbia, South Carolina) is an American 400 m sprinter and two-time Olympic gold medalist in the 4x400 m relay (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004), also 2007 world champion; personal best 49.56.
Monique Ilboudo
Monique Ilboudo is a Burkinabè writer, lawyer, and politician, born in Ouagadougou in 1959, whose 1992 novel Le Mal de Peau was the first by a woman in Burkina Faso.
Monique Knol
Monique Knol, Dutch road cyclist born 1964 in Wolvega; 1988 Seoul Olympic road race gold, first Dutch woman to win Olympic cycling gold, 1992 Barcelona bronze, world champion, and founder of the first independent women's cycling team.
Monique Lamoureux
Monique Lamoureux-Morando (born 1989, Grand Forks, ND) is a retired American hockey player, twin of Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson; Olympic silver 2010/2014, gold 2018 after scoring the tying goal, six world titles, U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame 2022.
Monique Limón
Monique Limón is an American Democratic politician serving as President pro Tempore of the California State Senate since 2025, the first Latina to lead the chamber.
Monique M.B. Breteler
Monique M.B. Breteler, also known as Monique Breteler, is a Dutch neuroepidemiologist who built the Rotterdam Study and, since 2011, directs Population Health Sciences at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Bonn.
Monique Marvez
Monique Marvez, American stand-up comedian and radio host born in Miami to a Cuban-Puerto Rican mother and Venezuelan father; four Showtime specials, KFI 640 host, and 2024's #1 Dry Bar Comedy special.
Monique Miller (Florida politician)
Monique Miller is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 33rd district, known for proposing a ten-year phase-out of property taxes.
Monique Séka
Monique Séka is an Ivorian singer born in 1965 in Abidjan, known across Africa as the "Queen of Afro-zouk" for fusing Antillean zouk with traditional Ivorian rhythms.
Moniro Ravanipour
Moniro Ravanipour (منیرو روانیپور) is an Iranian fiction writer and poet from Bushehr, known for the novel Ahl-e Gharq; imprisoned in the 1980s, she left Iran for the United States in 2006.
Monisha Blessy
Monisha Blessy (born 1999, Chennai) is a Tamil actress and TV personality, runner-up of Kalakka Povathu Yaaru 2019 and Cooku with Comali contestant, whose film debut was Maaveeran (2023), followed by Coolie (2025) and Jana Nayagan (2026).
Monisha Unni (മോനിഷ ഉണ്ണി)
Monisha Unni (മോനിഷ ഉണ്ണി), Malayalam actress (1971–1992), won the National Film Award for Best Actress at 15 for her debut Nakhakshathangal (1986) as Gowri, the youngest recipient; killed in a car accident near Cherthala aged 21.
Monism
Monism is the metaphysical thesis that some target, counted in some way, is one, opposed by pluralism, which holds that the same target is many.
Monism and dualism in international law
Monism and dualism in international law: two theories of how international and domestic law relate. Monism (Kelsen) unifies them with international supremacy; dualism (Triepel) separates them, requiring domestic transposition; both now serve mainly as analytical tools.
Monitor (film)
Monitor is a 2026 supernatural horror film and feature debut of Matt Black and Ryan Polly, based on their 2018 short, in which a content moderator's rejected video unleashes a screen-hopping tulpa; it premiered at SXSW and was acquired by Searchlight for April 16, 2027 release.
Monitor (Mar Novu)
Monitor (Mar Novu) is a DC Comics cosmic being created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, first appearing in New Teen Titans #21 (1982). Twin of the Anti-Monitor, he led heroes in Crisis on Infinite Earths and was killed by Harbinger.
Monitor (synchronization)
A monitor is a synchronization construct in concurrent programming that bundles shared state, an implicit lock, and condition variables, proposed by Per Brinch Hansen in 1973.
Monitor (warship)
A monitor is a small, heavily armored warship carrying guns in revolving turrets, named for USS Monitor, which fought CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads in 1862.