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MS Achille Lauro

MS Achille Lauro, built as the Dutch liner Willem Ruys, was an Italian cruise ship known for the 1985 hijacking in which Leon Klinghoffer was murdered.

MS Estonia

MS Estonia was an Estonian passenger ferry that sank in the Baltic Sea on 28 September 1994 en route from Tallinn to Stockholm, killing 852 of 989 aboard.

MS Freedom of the Seas

MS Freedom of the Seas is a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, lead ship of the Freedom class, launched in 2006 as the world's largest cruise ship.

MS Gripsholm (1925)

MS Gripsholm was a Swedish passenger motor ship delivered in 1925, the first transatlantic liner powered by diesel engines, running Gothenburg to New York until 1954.

MS Herald of Free Enterprise

The MS Herald of Free Enterprise, a Channel ferry built in 1980 for Townsend Thoresen, capsized off Zeebrugge in March 1987 with her bow doors open, killing 193.

MS MARCO

MS MARCO, short for MicroSoft MAchine Reading COmprehension, is a Microsoft collection of datasets built from real Bing queries, released in 2016 to train search and question-answering models.

MS Mikhail Lermontov (Михаил Лермонтов)

MS Mikhail Lermontov (Михаил Лермонтов) was a Soviet cruise liner built in 1972 that struck rocks off Cape Jackson, New Zealand, and sank in 1986 with one life lost.

MS Queen Elizabeth

MS Queen Elizabeth is a Cunard cruise ship built by Fincantieri and delivered in 2010, named by Queen Elizabeth II as the third Cunard ship of that name.

MS Queen Victoria

MS Queen Victoria is a Panamax cruise ship operated by Cunard Line, built by Fincantieri in Venice and delivered in 2007, carrying about 2,000 passengers.

MS Rotterdam (2020)

MS Rotterdam is a Pinnacle-class cruise ship operated by Holland America Line, delivered by Fincantieri in 2021 as the line's flagship and the seventh ship to carry the name Rotterdam.

MS Silja Europa

MS Silja Europa, also known as Silja Europa, is a cruiseferry delivered in March 1993 as the largest ferry built at the time, serving Baltic routes for Silja Line and Tallink.

MS St. Louis

MS St. Louis, also known as SS St. Louis, was a German ocean liner denied entry by Cuba, the United States, and Canada while carrying 937 mostly Jewish refugees in 1939.

MS The World

MS The World is a private residential cruise ship launched in 2002, whose 165 apartments are owned by residents, who set its continuously circumnavigating global itinerary.

MS World Discoverer

MS World Discoverer was a German-built expedition cruise ship that struck an uncharted reef in the Solomon Islands in 2000 and was run aground in Roderick Bay.

MS-DOS

MS-DOS, also known as Microsoft Disk Operating System, is the single-tasking operating system Microsoft released with the IBM PC in 1981, dominant through the early 1990s.

MS/TP

MS/TP (Master-Slave/Token-Passing) is the BACnet data link defined in Clause 9 of ANSI/ASHRAE 135, carrying frames over an RS-485 twisted-pair bus where only token-holding masters may originate messages.

MSC Cruises

MSC Cruises, also known as MSC Crociere, is a Geneva-headquartered cruise line of the MSC Group, the world's third largest and Europe's leader, with 25 ships.

MSC Euribia

MSC Euribia is a cruise ship delivered to MSC Cruises by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in 2023, the company's second LNG-powered vessel and fifth Meraviglia-series ship.

MSC Meraviglia

MSC Meraviglia is a cruise ship operated by MSC Cruises and the lead ship of the Meraviglia class, delivered in May 2017 by STX France at Saint-Nazaire.

MSC Seaside

MSC Seaside is a cruise ship operated by MSC Cruises, built by Fincantieri and delivered in 2017 as the first of two Seaside-class ships, the largest built in Italy at the time.

MSISDN

MSISDN, short for Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number, is the E.164 number assigned to a mobile subscription, in everyday terms the subscriber's phone number.

MSN

MSN (originally The Microsoft Network) is Microsoft's web portal of news, weather, and lifestyle services at MSN.com, launched with Windows 95 in 1995 and rebranded Microsoft News in 2018.

MSP430

The MSP430 is a family of 16-bit ultra-low-power microcontrollers made by Texas Instruments and introduced in 1994, built on an orthogonal RISC CPU for battery-powered sensing, metering, and portable instruments, with FRAM memory offered since 2011.

MSR-VTT

MSR-VTT (MSR Video to Text) is a large-scale open-domain dataset of web video clips paired with natural-language descriptions, released by Microsoft Research in 2016 as a video captioning benchmark.

MSX

MSX is a standardized architecture for 8-bit home computers based on the Zilog Z80, devised in 1983 by ASCII Corporation and Microsoft and built by 14 manufacturers.

MT ferrule

The MT ferrule, short for Mechanically Transferable ferrule, is a precision-molded plastic component aligning 12, 16, or 24 fibers; developed by NTT in the 1980s, it underpins MPO connectors in data centers.

Mt Owen (coal mine)

Mt Owen is an open-cut coal mine in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, 20 kilometers north of Singleton, producing thermal and semi-soft metallurgical coal for export.

Mt Thorley Warkworth Coal Mine

Mount Thorley Warkworth, formed from the Mount Thorley and Warkworth mines in 2004, is an open-cut coal operation near Singleton, New South Wales, producing coking and thermal coal.

MT-Bench

MT-Bench is a benchmark of 80 two-turn conversation questions across 8 categories, built by LMSYS in 2023 and scored by using another LLM, typically GPT-4, as the judge.

MT-LB (МТ-ЛБ)

The MT-LB (МТ-ЛБ) is a Soviet light-armored, fully amphibious tracked transporter-tractor designed to tow artillery, carry troops or cargo, and serve as a systems chassis.