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Ministry of Transport of Colombia

The Ministry of Transport of Colombia (Ministerio de Transporte) is the government body formulating transport, traffic, and infrastructure policy, created in 1905 under Rafael Reyes.

Ministry of Transport of Costa Rica

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) is Costa Rica's government ministry managing public infrastructure works and road, maritime, and fluvial transport, created in 1971.

Ministry of Transport of Ecuador

The Ministry of Transport of Ecuador, the MTOP, managed the national road network, transport policy, and public works until a 2025 decree renamed it the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.

Ministry of Transport of Egypt

The Ministry of Transport of Egypt (وزارة النقل) is the government ministry responsible for planning and regulating Egypt's transport infrastructure, headed by Lieutenant General Kamel El-Wazir.

Ministry of Transport of Spain

The Ministry of Transport of Spain, formally the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility (Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible), handles Spanish transport infrastructure, regulation, sustainable mobility, and postal services.

Ministry of Transport of Sweden

Sweden has no standalone Ministry of Transport. The transport portfolio has moved between ministries and since 2023 sits with the Ministry of Rural Affairs and Infrastructure.

Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation

The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, also known as Mintrans Rossii, is the federal body shaping policy for rail, road, air, maritime, and inland waterway transport.

Ministry of Transport of Trinidad and Tobago

The Ministry of Transport of Trinidad and Tobago, a government branch based in Port-of-Spain, oversees transport systems and infrastructure, with divisions including Highways, Drainage, and Maritime Services.

Ministry of Transport of Ukraine

The Ministry of Transport of Ukraine, also the Ministry of Transport and Communications, formed state policy for road, rail, sea, and air transport until its 2010 reorganization into the Ministry of Infrastructure.

Ministry of Transport of Uruguay

The Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP), created in 1907, is the Uruguayan government ministry responsible for national transport policy and infrastructure, led by Lucía Etcheverry.

Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) is the Ontario government ministry responsible for the province's highways, driver licensing, and transit investment, established in 1916.

Minitaur

Minitaur, sold as Ghost Minitaur, is a small direct-drive quadruped robot developed by Ghost Robotics, a Philadelphia company founded in 2015, which can run, climb fences, and open doors.

Minitel

Minitel, also known as Teletel, was a French videotex terminal and service network, distributed free by the state telecom from 1982 until its shutdown in 2012, offering thousands of services billed through phone accounts.

Minitest

Minitest is a testing framework for the Ruby programming language, bundled with Ruby's standard library since 2007 and used by Ruby on Rails for its own test suite.

Minitron

Minitron is a family of small language models developed by NVIDIA through structured pruning and knowledge distillation, first applied to Nemotron-4 15B to create 8B and 4B models.

Minivan

A minivan, also called a people carrier, is a car-based passenger vehicle with three rows of seats and sliding rear doors, created by Chrysler in 1983.

MiniWoB++

MiniWoB++ is a reinforcement learning benchmark of over 100 browser environments, introduced in 2018 by Stanford and OpenAI researchers and now maintained by the Farama Foundation.

Minix

Minix is a family of Unix-like operating systems created in 1987 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum for teaching, with MINIX 3 now a reliability-focused microkernel system.

Minkowski Engine

The Minkowski Engine is an open-source auto-differentiation library for sparse tensor neural networks developed by NVIDIA, introduced at CVPR 2019 for 3D point clouds and spatio-temporal data.

Minneapolis Skyway System

The Minneapolis Skyway System, also called the Minneapolis Skyway, is a network of enclosed pedestrian bridges and tunnels linking about 80 blocks and 150 downtown Minneapolis buildings.

Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport

Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, also known as MSP and once called Wold-Chamberlain Field, is the primary commercial airport of the Minneapolis–St. Paul area in Minnesota, a major Delta hub.

Minneriya Tank

Minneriya Tank, also called Minneriya lake, is an ancient irrigation reservoir in Polonnaruwa District, Sri Lanka, built during King Mahasen's reign and still serving paddy irrigation.

Minnesota Department of Transportation

The Minnesota Department of Transportation, known as MnDOT, is the state agency planning Minnesota's highways, transit, rail, aviation, and waterways, created by the Legislature in 1976.

Minnkota Power Cooperative

Minnkota Power Cooperative is a not-for-profit electric generation and transmission cooperative based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, serving 11 member cooperatives in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.

Minolta Maxxum 7000 (α-7000)

The Minolta Maxxum 7000 (α-7000) is a 35mm SLR camera launched in January 1985 as the first mass-produced 35mm SLR with fully integrated in-body autofocus, sold as the 7000 AF in Europe.

Minor actinides

Minor actinides are the transuranic elements in spent nuclear fuel other than plutonium, mainly neptunium, americium, and curium, which dominate its long-term radiotoxicity and are targets of partitioning and transmutation.

Minor Planet Center

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official clearinghouse for observations and orbits of minor planets, comets, and natural satellites, operating at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Minoru S. Araki

Minoru S. Araki, known professionally as Sam Araki, was a Japanese American aerospace engineer who spent 39 years at Lockheed and led the Corona reconnaissance satellite program.

Minotaur I

Minotaur I is an American four-stage solid-fuel launch vehicle built by Orbital Sciences for US government payloads, using two Minuteman ICBM stages; first launched in 2000, it has flown 11 missions and delivered 62 satellites.

Minotaur-class cruiser (1943)

The Minotaur class, also called the Swiftsure class, was a class of Royal Navy light cruisers armed with three triple 6-inch turrets, ordered in 1941.