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Moving block signalling

Moving block signaling is a railway train-control method in which safe separation between trains is computed continuously from each train's exact position rather than fixed track sections.

Moving bottleneck

A moving bottleneck is a slow vehicle, such as a bus or heavy truck, that restricts faster traffic flow and causes queues to form behind it.

Moving Picture Experts Group

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an ISO/IEC standards body founded in 1988 whose audio and video codecs, including MP3, AVC, and HEVC, underlie digital television and streaming.

Moving target indication

Moving target indication (MTI) is a radar signal processing technique that detects moving targets by suppressing stationary clutter using Doppler phase changes, dating to World War II.

Movistar

Movistar is the commercial brand of Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica for its fixed, mobile, TV, and internet services in Spain and Hispanic America, launched as a mobile brand in 1994.

Mowag Piranha

The Mowag Piranha is a family of wheeled armored combat vehicles developed by the Swiss company Mowag, first presented as a prototype in 1972 in 4x4, 6x6, 8x8, and 10x8 configurations.

Mox Bank Limited

Mox Bank Limited is a Hong Kong virtual bank majority owned by Standard Chartered with PCCW, HKT, and Trip.com, offering retail banking entirely through a mobile app since September 2020.

MOX fuel

MOX fuel (mixed oxide fuel) is nuclear reactor fuel made of plutonium dioxide blended with uranium dioxide, fabricated from reprocessed plutonium and used in power reactors since the 1980s.

Moxi Gas Asset

Moxi Gas Asset (磨溪) is a natural gas asset in Sichuan, China, wholly owned and operated by PetroChina. Discovered in 2012, it is China's largest single monoblock marine carbonate gas reservoir.

Moxie Marlinspike

Moxie Marlinspike is the pseudonym of American cryptographer Matthew Rosenfeld, who created the Signal messaging service, co-developed the Signal Protocol, and led Signal until 2022.

Moxie Power Melamaruthur Thermal Power Plant

Moxie Power Melamaruthur Thermal Power Plant, also known as Mutiara Coastal Energen, is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu, India.

Moxin Technology (魔芯科技) (Moxin Keji)

Moxin Technology (魔芯科技) is a Hangzhou startup founded in 2021 by Chen Tianrun that develops 4D world models, including KOKONI-World and MoWorld, trained on domestic Huawei chips.

Moxion Power

Moxion Power Co. was a Richmond, California manufacturer of mobile battery energy storage units founded in 2020 to replace diesel generators, and it shut down in July 2024.

Moynihan Train Hall

Moynihan Train Hall is the Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road concourse at New York City's Penn Station, opened in January 2021 inside the Farley Post Office Building.

Mozilla

Mozilla, also known as the Mozilla Project, is an open source project and family of organizations founded in 1998, best known for the Firefox web browser.

Mozilla Corporation

Mozilla Corporation is the wholly owned, taxable subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, established in August 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, best known as the developer of the Firefox browser.

Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation is a California nonprofit, established in 2003 as successor to mozilla.org, that stewards the open-source Mozilla Project best known for the Firefox web browser.

Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird, or the Thunderbird mail client, is a free, open-source desktop application from the Mozilla project for email, calendars, chat, and news feeds, first released in 2004.

MP 05

The MP 05 is a driverless, rubber-tyred electric multiple-unit metro train built by Alstom for the Paris Métro, ordered by the RATP in 2005 to automate Line 1.

MP 18

The MP 18, also called the Maschinenpistole 18 or Bergmann MP 18, is a German 9mm submachine gun designed by Hugo Schmeisser and issued to assault troops in 1918.

MP 34

The MP 34 is an Austrian submachine gun built by Waffenfabrik Steyr and sold as the Steyr-Solothurn S1-100, nicknamed the Rolls-Royce of submachine guns for its precision-machined quality.

MP 40

The MP 40 (Maschinenpistole 40) was a German 9 mm submachine gun of the Second World War, with over one million made from 1939 to 1945.

MP 59

The MP 59 was a series of rubber-tyred trains built for the Paris Métro, ordered in 1959, in service from 1963 until 2024, last on line 11.

MP 73

The MP 73 is a rubber-tyred electric multiple unit ordered by the RATP in 1973 for the Paris Métro, running on Line 6 from 1974 to 2026.

MP-443 Grach (ПЯ)

The MP-443 Grach (ПЯ), also called the PYa, is a Russian 9×19 mm semi-automatic service pistol designed by Vladimir Yarygin and adopted in 2003 to replace the Makarov PM.

MP3

MP3, short for MPEG-1 Audio Layer III, is a lossy audio coding format standardized in 1993 that compresses music to about one-tenth of CD size.

MP3.com

MP3.com was a San Diego music website founded in 1997 by Michael Robertson, which grew to over 10 million members before copyright lawsuits broke it.

MP4 file format

MP4, formally MPEG-4 Part 14, is a digital multimedia container format that packages video, audio, and subtitles into a single file, derived from Apple's QuickTime format.

MPATGM

MPATGM (Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile) is a third-generation fire-and-forget anti-tank missile developed by India's DRDO for the infantry, engaging targets from 200 to 2,500 meters.

MPEG transport stream

The MPEG transport stream (MPEG-TS) is a standard digital container format, defined in MPEG-2, for carrying audio, video, and data over error-prone satellite, cable, and terrestrial broadcast.