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Media-independent interface
The media-independent interface (MII) is a standardized IEEE 802.3 connection between an Ethernet MAC sublayer and a physical layer device, allowing one MAC to support various media and speeds.
MediaFire
MediaFire is an American file hosting and cloud storage service founded in 2006 in The Woodlands, Texas, with over 150 million monthly users sharing files through links.
Median barrier
A median barrier is a longitudinal barrier between opposing traffic streams on a divided highway, built as flexible cable, semi-rigid metal-beam, or rigid concrete to prevent cross-median crashes.
Median filter
The median filter, or median filtering, is a nonlinear filter replacing each pixel with the median of its window, removing impulse noise while preserving edges.
Median of medians
Median of medians, also called BFPRT, is a deterministic pivot-selection algorithm, published in 1973 by Blum, Floyd, Pratt, Rivest, and Tarjan, guaranteeing worst-case linear-time selection.
MediaTek
MediaTek Inc. is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company founded in 1997 as a UMC spin-off, holding the largest global smartphone chip share since 2024 and enabling nearly 2 billion devices a year.
MediaTek Dimensity
MediaTek Dimensity is a family of 5G smartphone system-on-chips made by Taiwanese semiconductor company MediaTek, launched in 2019 and spanning affordable mainstream phones to flagships.
Mediator pattern
The Mediator pattern, also known as the Mediator design pattern, is a behavioral design pattern that routes communication between objects, called colleagues, through one central mediator instead of direct references.
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is free, open-source wiki software written in PHP, originally developed for Wikipedia in 2002 and now serving as the engine behind Wikipedia and many other wikis.
MediaWiki markup
MediaWiki markup, commonly called wikitext or wiki markup, is the markup language used by MediaWiki to format pages, using characters like apostrophes, brackets, and equal signs.
Medical certifications for pilots
Medical certifications for pilots, also known as a flight physical, are official determinations by an aviation authority that a pilot is physically and mentally fit to fly.
Medical Subject Headings
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a controlled vocabulary produced since 1960 by the National Library of Medicine to index and search biomedical literature in MEDLINE and PubMed.
Medici Chapel
The Medici Chapel (Cappelle Medicee) is the funerary complex of the Medici family at San Lorenzo in Florence, comprising Michelangelo's New Sacristy and the Baroque Chapel of the Princes.
Medicine Hat Oil and Gas Field
The Medicine Hat oil and gas field is a shallow natural gas field under the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta, first discovered by a railway crew in 1883.
Medidata Rave
Medidata Rave is an electronic data capture system for clinical trials, launched by Medidata Solutions in June 1999 and sold since its 2019 acquisition as a Dassault Systèmes brand.
Medieval dams of Yemen and the Maghreb
The medieval dams of Yemen and the Maghreb were small gravity dams, weirs, and earthen embankments built under Islamic rule after the Marib Dam's decline.
Medieval fortification
Medieval fortification is the defensive architecture built in Europe between roughly the 5th and 15th centuries, dominated by the castle, whose design evolved against siege warfare.
Medieval ships
Medieval ships, also called ships of the Middle Ages, were the wooden sailing and oared vessels of Europe, the Mediterranean, and Asia between roughly the fifth and fifteenth centuries.
Medion
Medion is a German consumer electronics company based in Essen, founded in 1983 by Gerd Brachmann, known for discount PCs sold through the supermarket chain Aldi.
MEDITECH
MEDITECH (Medical Information Technology, Inc.) is an American company founded in 1969 that develops electronic health record software for hospitals, best known for its web-based MEDITECH Expanse platform.
Mediterranean Shipping Company
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is a Swiss container shipping and logistics company headquartered in Geneva, founded in 1970 by Captain Gianluigi Aponte with a single ship, and the world's largest container carrier.
Medium access control
Medium access control (MAC) is the data link sublayer that defines how devices access a shared medium and identify themselves, using MAC addresses such as Ethernet's 48-bit addresses.
Medium Atomic Demolition Munition
The Medium Atomic Demolition Munition was an American tactical nuclear land mine using the W45 warhead, with a selectable yield of 1 to 15 kilotons.
Medium Attachment Unit
A Medium Attachment Unit (MAU) is the Ethernet transceiver connecting a station's AUI port to the network cable, best known on 10BASE5 thick coax via vampire taps.
Medium Earth orbit
Medium Earth orbit, also called Intermediate Circular Orbit, is the band from 2,000 to 36,000 kilometers up, home to GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, GLONASS, and broadband satellites.
Medium frequency
Medium frequency (MF) is the ITU radio band from 300 to 3000 kHz, wavelengths of 100 to 1000 meters, carrying the AM broadcast band and maritime warnings.
Medium Girder Bridge
The Medium Girder Bridge (MGB) is a lightweight British military bridge built by hand without cranes, developed in the 1970s and still serving British and US armies.
Medium machine gun
A medium machine gun (MMG) is a belt-fed, crew-served automatic weapon of intermediate rifle caliber, roughly 6.5 to 8 mm, requiring a mount and a three-person crew for sustained fire.
Medium Mark A Whippet
The Medium Mark A Whippet was a British First World War medium tank, first used in battle in March 1918, with a top speed of about 8 mph.
Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement
The Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) is a 7-ton all-terrain military truck built by Oshkosh Defense, serving as the U.S. Marine Corps' primary heavy tactical vehicle.