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Minimum safe altitude
Minimum safe altitude (MSA) is an aviation altitude below which flight is unsafe because of terrain or obstacles, defined in US regulations and on instrument charts.
Minimum spanning tree
A minimum spanning tree is a subset of edges that connects all vertices of a weighted, undirected graph with no cycles and the least total weight; Kruskal's and Prim's algorithms compute it.
Minimum variance distortionless response
The minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer, or Capon beamformer, is an adaptive array-processing method introduced by J. Capon in 1969 and widely used in radar, sonar, and communications.
Minimum viable product
A minimum viable product (MVP) is the simplest version of a new product released to real customers to test the business idea with the least effort.
Minimum-cost flow problem
The minimum-cost flow problem seeks the cheapest feasible flow through a directed network with arc costs and capacity limits, generalizing shortest path, transportation, and assignment problems.
Minimum-jerk trajectory
A minimum-jerk trajectory is a motion profile connecting boundary states while minimizing squared jerk, formulated by Flash and Hogan in 1985 and now standard for smooth robot motion.
Minimum-shift keying
Minimum-shift keying (MSK) is a digital modulation scheme, a continuous-phase form of frequency-shift keying whose frequencies are separated by exactly half the bit rate, the minimum for coherent orthogonal detection.
Minimum-snap trajectory generation
Minimum-snap trajectory generation is an optimization method that produces smooth quadrotor flight paths by minimizing the fourth derivative of position, introduced by Mellinger and Kumar in 2011.
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals and other geological materials from the Earth, using underground, surface (open pit), and placer methods chosen by deposit.
Mining accident
A mining accident, also called a mining disaster, is a sudden harmful event during mineral extraction, ranging from rock falls to explosions, fires, floods, and collapses; in the US a disaster means 5 or more deaths.
Mining and Chemical Combine
The Mining and Chemical Combine (GKhK) is a Russian nuclear enterprise in the closed city of Zheleznogorsk, established in 1953 as the third Soviet plutonium production facility.
Mining pool
A mining pool is a service combining the hash rate of many cryptocurrency miners, who find proof-of-work blocks together and split block rewards in proportion to work contributed.
MiningLamp Technology
MiningLamp Technology (明略科技) is a Beijing-based enterprise data-intelligence and Agentic AI company founded by Wu Minghui, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025.
MinIO
MinIO is a high-performance distributed object storage system exposing an Amazon S3-compatible API, written in Go and used for machine learning, analytics, and cloud-native applications.
Ministério de Minas e Energia
The Ministério de Minas e Energia (Ministry of Mines and Energy, MME) is the Brazilian federal ministry that conducts the country's energy policies and grants mining and energy concessions.
Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica
The Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica (Ministry for the Ecological Transition) is the Spanish government department responsible for climate, energy, water, and environmental policy, created in 2018.
Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Sicurezza Energetica
The Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Sicurezza Energetica, the Italian ministry of the environment and energy security, was created in 2022 and is led by Gilberto Pichetto Fratin.
Ministro Pistarini International Airport
Ministro Pistarini International Airport, commonly called Ezeiza International Airport, is Argentina's main international airport in Greater Buenos Aires, opened in 1949 and handling 12 million passengers in 2025.
Ministry of Civil Aviation (Soviet Union)
The Ministry of Civil Aviation of the USSR (МГА СССР, MGA) directed Soviet civil aviation from 1964 to 1991, acting as both safety regulator and operator.
Ministry of Civil Aviation (नागर विमानन मंत्रालय) (India)
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (नागर विमानन मंत्रालय) is the Government of India ministry responsible for civil aviation policies, programs, and legislation, headquartered at Safdarjung Airport, New Delhi.
Ministry of Communications (Brazil)
The Ministry of Communications (Ministério das Comunicações, MCom) is Brazil's federal ministry for telecommunications, broadcasting, connectivity, digital inclusion, and postal policy, created in 1967 and headquartered in Brasília.
Ministry of Communications (Soviet Union)
The Ministry of Communications of the USSR, known as Minsvyazi, was the Soviet state body directing post, telephone, radio, and stamp issuance from 1923 to 1991.
Ministry of Communications (संचार मंत्रालय) (India)
The Ministry of Communications (संचार मंत्रालय) is India's government ministry for posts and telecommunications, run through the Department of Telecommunications and the Department of Posts.
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Egypt)
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (وزارة الاتصالات وتكنولوجيا المعلومات, MCIT) is Egypt's government ministry for telecommunications and IT policy, established in 1999 to lead the Digital Egypt strategy.
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Indonesia)
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Kominfo) was the Indonesian government ministry responsible for posts, telecommunications, broadcasting, and information technology until its 2024 renaming.
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (وزارة الاتصالات وتقنية المعلومات) (Saudi Arabia)
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (وزارة الاتصالات وتقنية المعلومات) is the Saudi government body setting telecom and IT policy, rooted in a 1926 post directorate.
Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (Guatemala)
The Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Infraestructura y Vivienda, CIV) is the Guatemalan government ministry directing communications, infrastructure, housing, and public works, tracing to 1871.
Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of Russia
The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of Russia (Минцифры России, Mintsifry) oversees IT, telecom, postal, and media policy; it was renamed in 2018.
Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (Мінцифра) is the government body coordinating digital development and maintaining the Diia app and Trembita platform, established in 2019.
Ministry of Electricity (Iraq)
The Ministry of Electricity (وزارة الكهرباء) is the Iraqi government ministry responsible for electricity policy and for managing generation, transmission, and distribution; created in 2003, it is headquartered in Baghdad.