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Military–industrial complex
The military–industrial complex, also called the defense-industrial complex, is the network linking a country's armed forces, defense industry, and government, named by Eisenhower in 1961.
Milk delivery
Milk delivery is the home distribution of fresh dairy products, usually milk in glass bottles, a standard service in the twentieth century that later declined.
Milk run (logistics)
A milk run is a scheduled logistics route where one vehicle on a fixed recurring loop picks up or delivers goods at multiple stops instead of separate trips.
Milkor 380
The Milkor 380 is a medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle built by South Africa's Milkor, first flown in 2023 and the largest UAV built in Africa.
Milkor MGL
The Milkor MGL is a South African six-shot 40 mm revolver grenade launcher, the first of its type, adopted in 1983 and used in over 56 countries.
Mill (grinding)
A mill, or grinding mill, is a machine that breaks solid material into smaller particles by impact and abrasion, in industries from mining and cement to flour and pharmaceuticals.
Mill Creek Station
Mill Creek Generating Station is a coal- and natural gas-fired power plant owned by Louisville Gas and Electric in southwest Louisville, Kentucky, operating since 1972 with about 1,465 megawatts of coal capacity.
Millard House
The Millard House, known as La Miniatura, is a 1923 concrete-block residence in Pasadena, California, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the first of his four textile-block houses.
Millard S. Firebaugh
Millard S. Firebaugh is an American naval engineer and retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral who led the design of the Seawolf attack submarine and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Millau Viaduct
The Millau Viaduct is a multi-span cable-stayed road bridge carrying the A75 motorway across the Tarn valley near Millau, France, built between 2001 and 2004.
Millennium Bridge, London
The Millennium Bridge, officially the London Millennium Footbridge, is a pedestrian suspension bridge across the Thames in London, nicknamed the "wobbly bridge" after opening in 2000.
Millennium Falcon
The Millennium Falcon is a fictional starship in the Star Wars franchise, a modified YT-1300 Corellian light freighter flown by smuggler Han Solo and Chewbacca, introduced in 1977.
Millennium Pipeline
The Millennium Pipeline is a 266-mile interstate natural gas pipeline in southern New York, running from Corning to Ramapo and delivering shale gas to New York and New England.
Millennium Technology Prize
The Millennium Technology Prize is a biennial, one-million-euro award given by Finland's Technology Academy Finland for groundbreaking innovations, first awarded in 2004 to Tim Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web.
Millennium Tower (San Francisco)
Millennium Tower, nicknamed the Leaning Tower of San Francisco, is a 58-story luxury residential skyscraper at 301 Mission Street, completed in 2009 and stabilized after sinking about 18 inches.
Miller cycle
The Miller cycle is an engine cycle with a shorter compression stroke than expansion stroke, achieved by closing the intake valve early or late, usually in turbocharged engines.
Miller Steam Plant
The Miller Steam Plant, formally the James H. Miller, Jr. Electric Generating Plant and commonly called Plant Miller, is a coal-fired power station in West Jefferson, Alabama.
Milliarium Aureum
The Milliarium Aureum, or golden milestone, was a gilded monument erected by Augustus in the Roman Forum in 20 BC as the notional point where Italy's roads converged.
Millicent (tunnel boring machine)
Millicent was a tunnel boring machine that dug the first 5 km section of London's Thames Tideway Tunnel from Battersea to Fulham between 2018 and 2019.
Millicom
Millicom International Cellular S.A. is a Luxembourg-based telecommunications company founded in 1990 that provides fixed and mobile services in eleven Latin American countries under the Tigo brand, serving 49.3 million mobile customers.
Millimeter-wave radar
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar transmits radio waves in the 30 to 300 GHz band to measure objects' range, velocity, and direction. Best known for automotive sensing like adaptive cruise control, it also penetrates fog, smoke, and dust.
Milling (machining)
Milling is a machining process in which a rotating cutter removes material from a workpiece fed past it, producing flat surfaces, slots, pockets, and contours.
Milling and resurfacing
Milling and resurfacing is a pavement rehabilitation method in which a cold milling machine removes asphalt to a controlled depth and a new hot mix asphalt layer is placed.
Milling cutter
A milling cutter is a rotary cutting tool with multiple teeth that removes material on a milling machine or machining center, cutting radially as well as axially.
Million Song Dataset
The Million Song Dataset (MSD) is a free research dataset of audio features and metadata for one million popular music tracks, created by The Echo Nest and LabROSA.
Millionaire calculator
The Millionaire is a crank-driven desk calculating machine patented by Otto Steiger in 1892 and built by Hans W. Egli in Zurich, which multiplied directly.
Millmerran power station
Millmerran power station is an 852 MW black-coal-fired minemouth base load power station near Millmerran in southwest Queensland, about 215 km west of Brisbane, in commercial operation since 2002.
Mills bomb
The Mills bomb, also known as the Mills grenade, is a British hand grenade designed by William Mills in 1915 and used through the First World War.
Millstone Nuclear Power Plant
The Millstone Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Waterford, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound, whose two pressurized water reactors supply much of New England's electricity.
Millvina Dean
Millvina Dean was a British woman who, at nine weeks old, was the youngest passenger aboard the Titanic and became the last surviving passenger of its sinking.