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MangistauMunaiGaz

MangistauMunaiGaz (MMG) is a Kazakhstani oil and gas company based in Aktau, western Kazakhstan, operating mature oil fields and jointly owned since 2009 by KazMunayGas and China National Petroleum Corporation.

Mangla Dam (منگلا ڈیم)

Mangla Dam (منگلا ڈیم) is an embankment dam on the Jhelum River in Pakistan, completed in 1967 under the Indus Waters Treaty to store irrigation water and generate about 1,000 MW.

Mangonel

The mangonel, also known as the mangonneau or traction trebuchet, was a medieval stone-throwing siege engine, a beam-sling machine powered by crews pulling ropes, credited to China and used in Europe from the 11th century.

Mangoola Coal Mine

Mangoola Coal Mine, formerly the Anvil Hill Coal Project, is an open-cut thermal coal mine in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, owned and operated by Glencore since 2010.

Manhattan Bridge

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge completed in 1909 that crosses the East River between Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, carrying vehicles, subway trains, pedestrians, and cyclists.

Manhattan Plaza

Manhattan Plaza is a subsidized housing complex of two apartment towers in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, opened in 1977 and known as "Broadway's Bedroom" for its performing artists.

Manhole

A manhole, also known as a maintenance hole or utility hole, is an access point to an underground utility network, most commonly a sewer, used for inspection, maintenance, and ventilating sewage.

Manhole cover

A manhole cover, sometimes called a personhole cover, is a removable cast-iron plate set flush in the street over an access shaft to sewers and other underground utilities.

Manic-2

Manic-2, officially the Jean-Lesage generating station, is a Hydro-Québec dam on the Manicouagan River near Baie-Comeau, Québec. Commissioned in 1965, it tested the world's first 735-kilovolt transmission line.

Manic-3

Manic-3, officially the René-Lévesque generating station since 2010, is a Hydro-Québec hydroelectric plant on the Manicouagan River in Quebec, built between 1971 and 1975 with an underground powerhouse.

Manic-5

Manic-5 is a Hydro-Québec hydroelectric generating station on the Manicouagan River in Quebec, commissioned in 1970–1971 at the foot of the Daniel-Johnson dam, the largest multiple-arch dam in the world.

Manic-5PA

Manic-5PA, also written Manic-5-PA, is an underground hydroelectric generating station on the Manicouagan River in Quebec, completed in 1989 beside the surface Manic-5 plant at the Daniel-Johnson Dam, with an installed capacity of 1,064 MW.

Manifa Oil Field

Manifa Oil Field is an offshore Saudi Aramco oil field in the Arabian Gulf north of Jubail, Saudi Arabia, and the fifth largest oil field in the world.

Manifest (TV series)

Manifest is an American supernatural drama television series created by Jeff Rake, following Flight 828 passengers who land after five and a half years have passed.

Manifold alignment

Manifold alignment is a machine learning technique that maps two or more high-dimensional datasets onto a shared low-dimensional manifold so corresponding points can be matched.

Manifold learning

Manifold learning is a family of nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods, such as Isomap, LLE, t-SNE, and UMAP, that embed high-dimensional data in fewer dimensions for visualization and clustering.

Manila folder

A manila folder, also called a manila file folder, is a tabbed card stock folder used to hold loose papers upright in filing cabinets, named for the manila hemp fiber that originally made its paper.

Manila galleon

The Manila galleon, or Nao de China, was a Spanish trade route sailing between Manila and Acapulco from 1565 to 1815, exchanging silver for Asian goods.

Manila International Container Terminal

The Manila International Container Terminal is the Philippines' largest and busiest container terminal, located in the Port of Manila and operated by ICTSI since 1988.

Manila Light Rail Transit System

The Manila Light Rail Transit System, or Manila LRT, is an elevated rail network in Metro Manila whose first line, opened in 1984, was the first in Southeast Asia.

Manila Metro Rail Transit System

The Manila Metro Rail Transit System, also called Manila MRT or MRT-3, is a 16.9-kilometer light metro line along EDSA in Metro Manila, opened between 1999 and 2000.

Manindra Agrawal

Manindra Agrawal, born 1966 in Allahabad, is an Indian computer scientist at IIT Kanpur known for co-discovering the AKS primality test and serving as the institute's Director since 2024.

Manipulability (robotics)

Manipulability in robotics is a configuration-dependent scalar measure of a manipulator's ability to move its end-effector, introduced by Tsuneo Yoshikawa and computed from the Jacobian matrix.

Manish Chhowalla

Manish Chhowalla is a materials scientist known for work on atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides; he has been Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at Cambridge since 2018.

Manish Kumar

Manish Kumar is an environmental engineer and associate professor at UT Austin known for artificial water channels and biomimetic membranes, including a 2019 Nature Nanotechnology study of fast, selective water permeation.

Manish Shrivastava

Manish Shrivastava is a computer scientist in natural language processing, an Associate Professor at IIIT Hyderabad since 2014 whose research covers machine translation and Indian languages.

ManiSkill

ManiSkill, the Manipulation Skill Framework, is an open-source robotics simulator and benchmark for generalizable robot manipulation, built on the SAPIEN engine by the Hao Su lab at UC San Diego.

Manitoba Hydro

Manitoba Hydro is a provincial Crown corporation that supplies electricity and natural gas to Manitoba, with up to 97 percent of its electricity generated from water in northern hydroelectric stations.

Manjaro

Manjaro, also known as Manjaro Linux, is a user-friendly Linux distribution based on Arch, founded in 2011 and using a rolling-release model with its own tested repositories.

Manjung power station

Manjung power station, formally Stesen Janakuasa Sultan Azlan Shah, is a 4,100 MW coal-fired power station on a man-made island off Perak, Malaysia, and the country's largest.