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McLaren 720S

The McLaren 720S is a two-seat mid-engined supercar produced by McLaren Automotive from 2017 to 2023, replacing the 650S with a 720 PS twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 and a top speed of 212 mph.

McLaren Automotive

McLaren Automotive is a British manufacturer of high-performance sports cars and supercars based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England, and descended from the McLaren Formula 1 racing team.

McLaren F1

The McLaren F1 is a three-seat British supercar built from 1992 to 1998 and designed by Gordon Murray; it set a 240.1 mph production-car speed record in 1998.

McLaren F1 GTR

The McLaren F1 GTR is a racing version of the McLaren F1 road car, built from 1995 to 1997 and best known for winning the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours on debut.

McLaren Group

McLaren Group Limited, also known as TAG McLaren Group, is a British automotive and motorsport holding company in Woking, Surrey, parent of the McLaren Formula 1 team.

McLaren McL 6GT

The McLaren McL 6GT is a supercar concept revealed at Monterey Car Week in 2026, pairing a V8 with a six-speed manual, the first in a McLaren since the F1.

McLaren MCL-HY

The McLaren MCL-HY is an LMDh Hypercar racing prototype McLaren Racing will race in the FIA World Endurance Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 2027.

McLaren MCL38

The McLaren MCL38 is the Formula 1 racing car McLaren competed with in the 2024 championship, driven by Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, winning McLaren's first Constructors' Championship since 1998.

McLaren MCL39

The McLaren MCL39 is a Formula 1 racing car built by McLaren Racing for the 2025 season, which it ended by winning both the Constructors' and, with Lando Norris, the Drivers' World Championships.

McLaren MCL40

The McLaren MCL40 is the Formula 1 racing car McLaren built for the 2026 season's revised regulations, driven by reigning world champion Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.

McLaren P1

The McLaren P1 is a limited-production plug-in hybrid hypercar built by McLaren Automotive in Woking, England, between 2013 and 2015 as the successor to the McLaren F1.

McLaren Senna

The McLaren Senna is a road-legal, track-focused two-seat hypercar built by McLaren Automotive in Woking, England, named for Ayrton Senna, with 789 hp from a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8.

McLaren Speedtail

The McLaren Speedtail is a three-seat, petrol-electric hybrid grand tourer built by McLaren Automotive in Woking, England, in a run of 106 cars with a 250 mph top speed.

McLaren W1

The McLaren W1 is a limited-production hybrid hypercar from British manufacturer McLaren Automotive, revealed in October 2024 as successor to the P1, with 399 cars priced from about £2.0 million.

MCM-41

MCM-41, short for Mobil Composition of Matter No. 41, is an ordered mesoporous silica with hexagonal cylindrical pores, first synthesized in 1992 by Mobil Oil researchers as part of the M41S family.

McMansion

A McMansion, sometimes called a starter castle, is a very large, mass-produced suburban house, typically built from the 1980s onward and criticized as ostentatious and lacking architectural integrity.

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr, formally the McMaster-Carr Supply Company, is a privately held American distributor of hardware, tools, and MRO supplies, founded in 1901 and based in Elmhurst, Illinois.

McMillan Tac-338

The McMillan Tac-338 is a bolt-action sniper rifle in .338 Lapua Magnum built by McMillan Firearms, best known as the rifle Navy SEAL Chris Kyle used for his longest reported kill, at 2,100 yards in Iraq.

McMillan TAC-50

The McMillan TAC-50 is a .50 BMG bolt-action sniper rifle made by McMillan Brothers, used by Canadian Forces as the C15 and by US Navy SEALs.

McNary Dam

McNary Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River near Hermiston, Oregon, begun in 1947 and dedicated in 1954, with a 980-megawatt powerhouse and a navigation lock.

McNichols Sports Arena

McNichols Sports Arena, nicknamed Big Mac, was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Denver, Colorado, home to the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche from 1975 until 1999.

McNulty Gas Field

McNulty Gas Field is a producing coal seam gas field in the Surat Basin of Queensland, Australia, developed under the Queensland Curtis LNG project and operated by QGC, a Shell-affiliated entity.

MCR Horizon's Lord

MCR Horizon's Lord (Ukrainian: Володар Обрію) is a Ukrainian multi-caliber bolt-action anti-materiel sniper rifle built by Kyiv's Mayak plant with the proprietary 12.7x114 mm HL cartridge.

MCV LNG Terminal

The MCV LNG Terminal is Myanmar's first liquefied natural gas import terminal, built by CNTIC VPower at Thilawa Port near Yangon, started in 2020 and supplying 500 MW of LNG-fired power plants.

Md Golam Kibria

Md Golam Kibria is a Bangladeshi-born materials and electrochemistry scientist and associate professor at the University of Calgary, known for work on CO2 conversion, water splitting, and sustainable fuels.

MD Helicopters MD 500

The MD Helicopters MD 500 is a family of American single-engine light utility helicopters descended from the Hughes OH-6A Cayuse, with over 4,000 built and production continuing in Mesa, Arizona.

MD Helicopters MH-6 Little Bird

The MD Helicopters MH-6 Little Bird is a light helicopter carrying special operations troops, flown exclusively by the US Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

MD5

MD5 (Message-Digest Algorithm 5) is a cryptographic hash function published by Ronald Rivest in 1992 as RFC 1321, producing a 128-bit digest of any input length.

Md5sum

Md5sum is a GNU Coreutils command-line utility that computes 128-bit MD5 checksums of files and, with the -c option, verifies that files still match recorded digests.

mdadm

mdadm is the standard Linux command-line tool for managing MD devices, the kernel's software RAID, which combines disks into virtual block devices, some with redundancy against disk failure.