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MINERVA-II-2

MINERVA-II-2 was a small rover built by a Japanese university consortium and released from the spacecraft Hayabusa2 at the asteroid Ryugu, orbiting it after a boot anomaly prevented surface operation.

Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917)

The mines in the Battle of Messines were 19 explosive charges, nearly 440 tons total, dug by British Empire tunnellers and detonated under German lines on 7 June 1917.

Minesweeper

A minesweeper, or naval minesweeper, is a vessel that clears sea mines by dragging detection or destruction gear through the water, as distinct from a minehunter.

MineWolf

The MineWolf is a family of armored, remote-controlled demining vehicles made by MineWolf Systems, with flail and tiller tools that destroy buried mines in humanitarian mine action.

Ming Zheng

Ming Zheng, also known as Ming Sen Zheng, is a research chemist at NIST whose DNA-based method made single-chirality carbon nanotubes available for electronics and sensing.

Ming Zhou

Ming Zhou is an engineer known as a founder of structural topology optimization and co-author of the SIMP method, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Ming-UniAudio

Ming-UniAudio is a unified speech language model family from Ant Group's inclusionAI team, released with open weights in November 2025, combining speech understanding, generation, and instruction-based editing.

Ming‐Yong Han

Ming-Yong Han (韩明勇) is a nanomaterials and quantum-dot researcher who is a professor at Tianjin University, formerly at A*STAR in Singapore, known for quantum-dot-tagged microbeads.

Ming–Hsuan Yang

Ming–Hsuan Yang is a computer vision researcher, professor at UC Merced since 2008, and Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, known for visual tracking benchmarks and Restormer.

Minghao Yu

Minghao Yu is a Chinese-born materials electrochemist at TU Dresden who researches supercapacitors, aqueous batteries, and multivalent metal batteries, leading a group there since 2019.

Mingtan hydroelectric plant

The Mingtan hydroelectric plant, formally the Mingtan Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant, is a 1,600 MW pumped-storage station in Nantou County, Taiwan, owned by Taipower.

MinGW

MinGW, or Minimalist GNU for Windows, is a native Windows port of GCC whose binaries run on Windows without a POSIX compatibility layer like Cygwin's.

Mingwei Chen

Mingwei Chen (陳明偉) is a materials scientist who has been a professor at Johns Hopkins University since 2017, known for work on metallic glasses and nanoporous materials.

Mingyang Smart Energy

Mingyang Smart Energy is a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer founded in 2006 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, building onshore and offshore turbines and floating platforms, and ranking third globally by 2024 installations.

Mingyuan Gao

Mingyuan Gao (高明远) is a Chinese nanomaterials chemist who develops nanoparticle probes for molecular imaging and cancer theranostics; he is Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Molecular Imaging and Nuclear Medicine at Soochow University.

MinHash

MinHash, or minwise hashing, is a technique for estimating the Jaccard similarity of two sets, introduced by Andrei Broder at DEC in the 1990s to detect near-duplicate documents on the web.

Mini

The Mini, sold as the Morris Mini-Minor and Austin Seven, is a small British two-door economy car designed by Alec Issigonis and produced from 1959 to 2000.

Mini (marque)

Mini is a British automotive marque owned by BMW since 1994, originating with the classic Mini small car launched in Oxford in 1959 and relaunched as the modern MINI in 2001.

Mini Countryman

The Mini Countryman, also known as the Mini Cooper Countryman, is a compact crossover SUV produced by MINI, a BMW Group brand, since 2010 and the largest model in the range.

Mini DisplayPort

Mini DisplayPort (Mini DP) is a miniaturized 20-pin display connector carrying the same video and audio signals as full-size DisplayPort. Apple introduced it in October 2008, and VESA standardized it in 2009.

Mini Electric

The Mini Electric, sold as the Mini Cooper SE, is the battery-electric version of the Mini Cooper hatchback, built by BMW's MINI brand since 2020.

Mini Hatch

The Mini Hatch, sold as the Mini Hatchback or Mini Hardtop, is a premium supermini built at Plant Oxford since 2001 as successor to the classic Mini.

Mini LED

Mini LED is an LCD backlight technology using thousands of tiny LEDs in hundreds of independently dimming zones, a marketing term introduced by TCL in 2019.

Mini Maritsa Iztok

Mini Maritsa Iztok (Мини Марица-изток ЕАД) is a wholly state-owned Bulgarian company and the country's largest coal miner, extracting lignite in Stara Zagora Province for the Maritsa East power plants.

Mini Moke

The Mini Moke, also known as the Morris Mini Moke, is a small open utility vehicle designed by Alec Issigonis and built from 1964 to 1993 using Mini mechanicals.

Mini Pupper

Mini Pupper is an open-source, 12-degree-of-freedom quadruped robot dog kit developed by Hong Kong company MangDang to run ROS on a Raspberry Pi, announced in 2021 as a legged counterpart to the TurtleBot.

Mini-ITX

Mini-ITX is a compact, low-power motherboard form factor measuring 170 × 170 mm, defined by VIA Technologies in 2001 for small desktops and embedded computers.

Mini-MAX

Mini-MAX, also known as the Ison Mini-MAX, is a family of single-seat, wood-and-fabric aircraft designed by Wayne Ison, first flown in 1984 and built from plans or kits.

Mini-roundabout

A mini-roundabout is a small roundabout junction whose painted or low-domed central island vehicles can drive over if necessary, developed in Britain in the early 1970s.

Mini-split air conditioner

A mini-split air conditioner is a ductless, split-system air conditioner or heat pump whose indoor wall or ceiling units connect by refrigerant piping to one outdoor compressor unit.