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MPEG-1

MPEG-1 is a standard for coding moving pictures and audio, published as ISO/IEC 11172 in 1993, designed for CDs and best known for creating the mp3 format.

MPEG-1 Audio Layer II

MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (MP2) is a lossy perceptual audio compression format from the MPEG-1 standard, derived from MUSICAM and finalized in 1992, operating at bit rates from 32 to 448 kb/s.

MPEG-2

MPEG-2 is a family of standards for coding moving pictures and audio, published as ISO/IEC 13818 in 1994 and used for digital TV broadcasting, DVD-Video, and professional video.

MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a suite of multimedia standards published as ISO/IEC 14496, finalized in 1998, designed to code scenes as collections of individual audio-visual objects rather than single streams.

Mphanda Nkuwa project

The Mphanda Nkuwa project (MNK) is a planned 1,500 MW run-of-river hydroelectric dam on the Zambezi River in Mozambique, developed by EDF, TotalEnergies, and Sumitomo Corporation.

Mphasis

Mphasis, also known as Mphasis Limited, is an Indian IT services and business process company headquartered in Bangalore, serving mostly banking and financial services clients and majority owned by Blackstone.

MPI Sintel

MPI Sintel is a public benchmark for evaluating optical flow algorithms, derived from the Blender Foundation's open source animated short film Sintel and presented at ECCV 2012.

mPLUG-Owl

mPLUG-Owl is a series of open-source multimodal large language models from Alibaba's DAMO Academy, first released in April 2023, with three generations through 2024 covering images and video.

MPLX LP

MPLX LP is a master limited partnership formed by Marathon Petroleum in 2012 to own and operate midstream pipelines and energy logistics assets, headquartered in Findlay, Ohio.

mPower (SMR)

mPower is an integral pressurized light water small modular reactor developed by Babcock & Wilcox, later BWXT; it won the first DOE SMR cost-share award, was suspended in 2017, and was revived in 2026.

MPT (MosaicML model family)

MPT (MosaicPretrainedTransformer) is a family of open-weight large language models released by MosaicML in 2023, with differing licenses such as Apache 2.0 for MPT-7B Base.

Mpungi Oil Field

Mpungi, also written M'Pungi, is a deepwater oil field in Angola's Block 15/06, about 350 kilometers northwest of Luanda, discovered by Eni and brought onstream in January 2016.

MQ-28 Ghost Bat

The MQ-28 Ghost Bat, developed by Boeing Australia as the Loyal Wingman, is an uncrewed combat aircraft that first flew in 2021 to fly alongside crewed fighters.

MQTT

MQTT, originally MQ Telemetry Transport, is a lightweight open publish/subscribe messaging protocol in which clients exchange messages through a central broker, developed in 1999 for IoT and machine-to-machine communication.

MR-TOF-MS

A multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MR-TOF-MS, also written MRTOF-MS) measures ion masses by reflecting ions between electrostatic mirrors, first developed at ISOLTRAP, CERN, and used for very short-lived nuclei.

Mr. Clean

Mr. Clean, also known as Mr. Proper, is a Procter & Gamble brand of household cleaning products, launched in 1958, best known for its Magic Eraser sponge.

Mr. Potato Head

Mr. Potato Head is a Hasbro toy with a potato-shaped plastic body and snap-in parts, introduced in 1952 and later voiced by Don Rickles in Pixar's Toy Story films.

MRAP

MRAP (Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected) is a family of wheeled armored vehicles with V-shaped hulls, built in a rapid US program of about 28,000 vehicles against IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mratinje Dam

Mratinje Dam is a 220 m high concrete arch dam on the Piva River in northwestern Montenegro, built between 1969 and 1976 to impound Piva Lake.

MRC Global

MRC Global Inc. was a Houston, Texas-based distributor of pipe, valves and fittings to gas utility, energy and industrial end-markets, acquired by DNOW Inc. in 2025.

MRCR (Multi-Round Coreference Resolution)

MRCR (Multi-Round Co-reference Resolution) is a long-context benchmark from Google's Gemini team, introduced in 2024, that tests whether a model can reproduce one of several similar writings buried in a long conversation.

MrDeepFakes

MrDeepFakes was a website founded in 2018 that hosted nonconsensual sexual deepfake videos and images, mostly of celebrities, becoming the world's largest deepfake pornography site before its May 2025 shutdown.

MRDIMM

MRDIMM (Multiplexed Rank Dual In-Line Memory Module) is a high-bandwidth DDR5 server memory module that runs two DRAM ranks simultaneously, sending 128 bytes per cycle and roughly doubling memory bandwidth, first shipped with Intel Xeon 6.

Mrdjan Jankovic

Mrdjan Jankovic is an American control systems engineer who spent 27 years at Ford developing powertrain and driver-assistance controls, and is a National Academy of Engineering member.

MRF (company)

MRF Limited, also known as Madras Rubber Factory or MRF Tyres, is an Indian tire manufacturer headquartered in Chennai. Founded in 1946, it is India's largest tire maker.

MRIdian

MRIdian is a magnetic resonance-guided radiation therapy system made by ViewRay, combining an MRI scanner with a linear accelerator; its first patients were treated in 2017 at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit.

MRKL Systems

MRKL Systems (Modular Reasoning, Knowledge and Language, pronounced "miracle") is a neuro-symbolic architecture from AI21 Labs in which a frozen LLM routes queries to expert modules.

MRPT

MRPT (Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit) is an open-source C++ framework for mobile robotics developed at the University of Málaga since 2005, covering SLAM, localization, and computer vision.

MRS Logística

MRS Logística is a Brazilian bulk-freight railway created in RFFSA's 1996 privatization, carrying 28% of Brazil's rail freight, mostly iron ore to export ports in Rio de Janeiro.

MRS Logística S.A.

MRS Logística S.A. is a Brazilian freight railway operator created in 1996, holding the concession for the Southeast Network across Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.