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Mortise lock

A mortise lock, also called a sashlock, is a door lock whose lock body is fitted into a pocket cut into the door edge, common on commercial doors.

MOS Technology

MOS Technology, also known as MOS Technologies, was an American semiconductor company founded in 1969 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, best known for the low-cost 6502 microprocessor.

MOS Technology 6502

The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced in 1975 by MOS Technology, priced at $25 and powering the Apple II, Commodore PET, Atari 2600, and Nintendo Entertainment System.

MOS Technology 6510

The MOS Technology 6510 is an 8-bit microprocessor, a minor revision of the 6502 with an added I/O port, that served as the Commodore 64's CPU.

MOS-controlled thyristor

The MOS-controlled thyristor (MCT) is a power semiconductor switch combining a thyristor's low losses with MOSFET gate control, developed at General Electric and commercialized in 1992.

MoS2 memristive crossbar

A MoS2 memristive crossbar is a crossbar array of memristive devices using molybdenum disulfide, which performs analog vector-matrix multiplication for low-power neuromorphic and edge AI computing.

MoS2 microprocessor

A MoS2 microprocessor is a microprocessor whose transistors use molybdenum disulfide rather than silicon as the channel material; the first, a 1-bit device, was reported in 2017.

MoS2 photodetector

A MoS2 photodetector is a light-sensing device that uses molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), an atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductor, to convert absorbed light into an electrical current.

MoS2 RF transistor

A MoS2 RF transistor is a field-effect transistor that uses atomically thin molybdenum disulfide as its channel and operates at radio frequencies, with best cut-off frequencies of 42 GHz.

MoS2 transistors

MoS2 transistors are field-effect transistors whose channel is molybdenum disulfide, an atomically thin semiconductor with a direct bandgap, studied for extending transistor scaling beyond silicon.

Moscow Canal

The Moscow Canal is a 128 km shipping canal in Russia connecting the Moskva River in Moscow with the Volga River near Dubna, opened in 1937.

Moscow CHP-22 power station

Moscow CHP-22 power station, also known as the Dzerzhinskaya CHP, is a Mosenergo combined heat and power plant in Dzerzhinsky, Moscow Oblast, commissioned in 1960.

Moscow International Business Center (Московский международный деловой центр)

Moscow International Business Center, also known as Moscow-City, is a commercial skyscraper district on the Moskva River in central Moscow, conceived in 1992 and containing Europe's tallest building, the 374-meter Federation Tower.

MoSCoW method

The MoSCoW method, also called MoSCoW prioritization, is a technique that sorts requirements into Must have, Should have, Could have, and Won't have categories, originating in the DSDM agile framework.

Moscow Metro (Московский метрополитен)

The Moscow Metro (Московский метрополитен) is Moscow, Russia's rapid transit system, opened on 15 May 1935 and now one of the world's busiest, with about 2.5 billion passengers a year.

Moscow water supply system

The Moscow water supply system, run by Mosvodokanal, delivers drinking water to Moscow from the Moskva and Volga rivers, beginning with the Mytishchi pipeline of 1804.

Moscow–Washington hotline

The Moscow–Washington hotline, formally the Direct Communications Link (DCL), is a crisis communication link between US and Soviet leaders, created by agreement signed at Geneva in 1963 after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

MOSE

MOSE (Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico) is a system of 78 mobile flood barriers at the Venice Lagoon's three inlets, protecting Venice from tides up to 3 meters since October 2020.

Mosenergo

Mosenergo (Мосэнерго) is a Russian power company generating electricity and district heat for Moscow and the surrounding region, with about 12.3 GW of capacity and Gazprom as majority shareholder since 2007.

MOSFET

The MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) is a voltage-controlled semiconductor switch invented by Atalla and Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959 and the basic building block of integrated electronics.

Moshe Safdie (משה ספדיה)

Moshe Safdie (משה ספדיה), born in Haifa in 1938, is an Israeli-Canadian-American architect best known for Habitat 67, Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem.

Moshe Vardi

Moshe Vardi is a computer scientist at Rice University known for automated reasoning and model checking, the Feder–Vardi Dichotomy Conjecture, and honors including the Gödel and Knuth prizes.

Moshi

Moshi is an open, full-duplex speech-native conversational model released by the French non-profit AI lab Kyutai in September 2024, able to listen and speak simultaneously.

Mosin–Nagant (Винтовка Мосина)

The Mosin–Nagant (Винтовка Мосина) is a five-shot, bolt-action military rifle adopted by Imperial Russia in 1891, serving as the standard Russian and Soviet rifle through World War II.

Mosjoen LNG Terminal

Mosjoen LNG Terminal is a small onshore LNG import terminal at Mosjøen in northern Norway, operating since 2007, owned by Gasnor and supplying the adjacent Alcoa aluminum works.

Moskovtsev Oil Field

The Moskovtsev Oil Field is an onshore oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of western Siberia, Russia, near Pyt-Yakh, discovered in 2009 and in commercial development since 2016.

Moskvitch (car)

Moskvitch (Москвич) is a Soviet and Russian car marque built in Moscow from 1946 to 2001, best known for the Moskvich-400 and rally-exported 412, and revived in 2022.

Mosquito Aviation XE

The Mosquito Aviation XE, commonly known as the Mosquito XE, is a single-seat amateur-built ultralight helicopter produced by Composite-FX in Trenton, Florida, with piston or turbine engines.

Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility

The Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility is a 750 MW battery storage complex in Moss Landing, California, owned by Vistra and hit by a major fire in 2025.

MOSS-TTS

MOSS-TTS is an open-source speech and sound generation model family from the OpenMOSS team, a research group under Shanghai Innovation Institution working with Fudan University, released under Apache 2.0.