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Mooring winch

A mooring winch is shipboard deck machinery that secures the shipboard end of a mooring line, adjusting length and compensating for changes in draft and tide while a vessel is berthed.

Moorish architecture

Moorish architecture, also called Andalusi architecture, is the building style of Islamic North Africa and Muslim Spain, predominant from the 8th to the 15th century.

MOOS-IvP

MOOS-IvP is an open source C++ suite for autonomy on robotic platforms, especially unmanned marine vehicles, combining MOOS middleware with the IvP Helm, developed by MIT, Oxford, and NUWC.

Moosehead Breweries

Moosehead Breweries, also known as Moosehead Beer, is a Canadian brewery in Saint John, New Brunswick, founded in 1867 and still owned by the Oland family.

Mopah International Airport

Mopah International Airport (Bandar Udara Internasional Mopah), also known as Merauke Airport, serves Merauke at Indonesia's eastern tip, with a 2,500-meter runway dating to World War II.

Mopar

Mopar, a contraction of "Motor Parts," is the parts, service, and customer-care brand of Stellantis, covering Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, and FIAT vehicles and known for motorsports performance.

Moped

A moped is a low-powered two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle, historically a bicycle with a small engine and pedals, now defined by capped engine size or speed.

MOPP (protective gear)

MOPP (Mission Oriented Protective Posture) is the US military system of five graduated levels of chemical and biological protective gear, ranging from MOPP 0 to full encapsulation at MOPP 4.

Moragot Oil and Gas Field

Moragot Oil and Gas Field is an offshore gas and condensate field in the southern Pattani Basin, Gulf of Thailand, discovered in 1990 and operated by Chevron Thailand.

Moranbah South Coal Project

The Moranbah South Coal Project is a proposed underground coking coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, approved in 2014 and held by Anglo American and Exxaro but never developed.

Moray East

Moray East is a 950 MW offshore wind farm on the Smith Bank in the outer Moray Firth, off northeast Scotland, fully operational since April 2022.

Moray West

Moray West is an 882 MW offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, off northeast Scotland, developed by Ocean Winds and able to power 1.3 million homes.

More electric aircraft

A more electric aircraft (MEA) is an aircraft where electrical power replaces hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical power for non-propulsive functions, exemplified by the Airbus A380 and Boeing 787.

Moreau's sweeping process

Moreau's sweeping process is a differential inclusion introduced by Jean-Jacques Moreau in the early 1970s, in which a point is pushed by a moving set's normal cone.

Moreni Oil and Gas Field

The Moreni oil and gas field is a petroleum field in the Carpathian foredeep near Ploiești, Romania, among the country's oldest and described as its largest commercial reservoir.

Morgan B. Abney

Morgan B. Abney is an American chemical engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center who works on oxygen recovery for spaceflight and received a 2011 PECASE award.

Morgan Chuan-Yuan Sze

Morgan Chuan-Yuan Sze (1916–2015) was a Chinese-born American chemical engineer who worked on petroleum refining and synthetic fuels and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Morgan Midsummer

The Morgan Midsummer is a limited-run barchetta sports car made by Morgan with Italian design house Pininfarina; 50 examples were built between July 2024 and March 2026.

Morgan Motor Company

The Morgan Motor Company is a British manufacturer of hand-built sports cars, founded in 1909 and based in Malvern, Worcestershire, where it has built cars for over 110 years.

Morgan Oil and Gas Field

Morgan Oil and Gas Field, also called El Morgan or Al Morgan, is a giant offshore oil field in Egypt's Gulf of Suez, discovered in 1965.

Morgan Sparks

Morgan Sparks (1916–2008) was an American physical chemist who fabricated the first junction transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1951 and directed Sandia National Laboratories from 1972 to 1981.

Morgan Supersport

The Morgan Supersport is a two-seat sports car unveiled in March 2025 by British coachbuilder Morgan Motor Company, indirectly replacing the Plus Six as Morgan's flagship.

Morgan Trassin

Morgan Trassin, born 1982, is a materials scientist and professor at ETH Zurich who studies ferroelectric oxide thin films and leads the NEAT team there.

Morgantown Generating Station

Morgantown Generating Station is a power plant in Newburg, Maryland, on the Potomac River about 38 miles south of Washington, D.C.; its coal units ceased operation in June 2022.

Morganza Spillway

The Morganza Spillway is a flood-control structure in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, diverting Mississippi floodwater into the Atchafalaya Basin; it was opened only in 1973 and 2011.

Morgenstern–Price method

The Morgenstern–Price method is a limit equilibrium method of slices for slope stability analysis, introduced in Géotechnique in 1965, that satisfies both force and moment equilibrium for slip surfaces of any shape.

Moriarty, New Mexico

Moriarty, New Mexico, is a small city in Torrance County, about 35 miles east of Albuquerque on Interstate 40, best known as a national center for glider soaring.

Moriba Jah

Moriba Jah is an American aerospace engineer and astrodynamicist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for ASTRIAGraph, a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship, and co-founding Privateer.

Morichal Oil Field

Morichal Oil Field is an onshore oil field in the Maturin basin of eastern Venezuela, discovered in 1958, producing since 1961, and wholly owned by PDVSA.

Moriche Oil and Gas Field

Moriche Oil and Gas Field is a heavy-oil field in the Middle Magdalena Basin near Puerto Boyacá, Colombia, discovered in 1983 and produced by cyclic steam injection since 2008.