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MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet

The MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet, also known as the MTA bus fleet, is the roughly 5,800-bus fleet of New York City Transit and MTA Bus Company.

MTCNN

MTCNN (Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks) is a deep learning framework performing joint face detection and alignment with three cascaded networks, proposed by Kaipeng Zhang and colleagues in 2016.

MTConnect

MTConnect is an open, royalty-free standard giving machine tools, robots, and sensors a common, vendor-neutral language for reporting data, first released in 2008 and used on over 250,000 devices.

MTD (mobile network)

MTD (Mobile Telephone system D) was a manually switched mobile telephone network run by Swedish state operator Televerket from 1971 until the automatic NMT system replaced it in the 1980s.

MTEB (Massive Text Embedding Benchmark)

MTEB (Massive Text Embedding Benchmark) is an open-source benchmark and leaderboard measuring text embedding models across tasks like retrieval, clustering, and classification, introduced in October 2022.

MTG-I1

MTG-I1, also known as Meteosat 12, is the first of four imaging satellites in Europe's Meteosat Third Generation system, launched on an Ariane 5 from Kourou in December 2022.

MTG-Jamendo

MTG-Jamendo is an open music auto-tagging dataset of over 55,000 full Creative Commons tracks from Jamendo, released by the Music Technology Group in Barcelona in 2019.

MTIA (Meta)

MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) is a family of custom AI accelerator chips developed by Meta Platforms since 2020, initially for its recommendation models.

MTN Group

MTN Group Limited, founded in 1994 as Mobile Telephone Networks, is a South African telecom company serving 307.2 million customers across Africa and the Middle East, with its largest operations in Nigeria.

MTN South Africa

MTN South Africa is the mobile network operator of the MTN Group, providing voice, data, and 5G services to about 40.6 million subscribers since its 1994 launch.

MTorres

MTorres, also known as M. Torres Diseños Industriales, is a Spanish industrial group founded by Manuel Torres Martínez in 1975 that supplies automated drilling, riveting, and fiber-placement equipment to aerospace and paper companies.

MTR

MTR (港鐵公司, MTR Corporation Limited) is Hong Kong's metro operator, running nine rail lines plus Light Rail, the 2007 KCR-merged network, and railways in Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Stockholm, Melbourne and Sydney, funded by the Rail plus Property model.

MTR Corporation

MTR Corporation is a Hong Kong railway company, founded by the government in 1975, that operates the territory's rail network and funds it through the Rail plus Property model.

MTS Oceanos

The MTS Oceanos was a Greek-owned cruise ship that sank off Coffee Bay, South Africa, on 4 August 1991, with all 571 passengers and crew rescued in a major airlift.

MTU Friedrichshafen

MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH is a German diesel engine maker founded in 1969 and based in Friedrichshafen, now part of Rolls-Royce Power Systems and selling under the mtu brand.

Mtwara–Dar es Salaam Gas Pipeline

The Mtwara–Dar es Salaam Gas Pipeline is a 542-kilometer Tanzanian natural gas pipeline from Mnazi Bay near Mtwara to Dar es Salaam, commissioned in 2015.

Mu-metal

Mu-metal is a soft ferromagnetic alloy of about 80% nickel with molybdenum and iron, used chiefly to shield equipment and rooms from low-frequency magnetic fields.

MU90 Impact

The MU90 Impact, also known as the Eurotorp MU90, is a Franco-Italian electrically powered lightweight torpedo for anti-submarine warfare from ships, helicopters, and aircraft, in service since 2007 with 13 navies.

Muara Karang power station

Muara Karang power station is a gas-fired power generating complex in North Jakarta, Indonesia, operated within the PLN group and serving the Jakarta electricity system.

Muara Tawar power station

Muara Tawar power station is a combined-cycle gas power plant in Bekasi, West Java, operated by PLN Nusantara Power, with a capacity of about 2,700 MW after a 650 MW expansion inaugurated in 2025.

Muarah Laboh geothermal plant

The Muarah Laboh geothermal plant, also written Muara Laboh, is an 86 MW geothermal power station in Solok Selatan, West Sumatra, Indonesia, operating since 2019.

Mubadala Petroleum

Mubadala Petroleum was an international upstream oil and gas company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, established in 2012 and wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company, rebranded as Mubadala Energy in 2022.

Mubarak Shah (computer vision researcher)

Mubarak Shah is a computer vision researcher and Trustee Chair Professor at the University of Central Florida, founding director of its Center for Research in Computer Vision.

Mubi (streaming service)

Mubi, also known as Mubi.com, is a global streaming service, production company, and film distributor dedicated to hand-picked art-house, independent, and classic cinema, founded in 2007.

Mud motor

A mud motor, also called a drilling motor or positive displacement motor (PDM), converts circulating drilling fluid into rotation of the drill bit, enabling modern directional drilling.

Mud weight

Mud weight, or mud density, is the mass per unit volume of a drilling fluid, commonly reported in pounds per gallon and used to control wellbore pressure.

Muda (無駄) (Japanese term)

Muda (無駄) is a Japanese term meaning waste, one of the three M's of the Toyota Production System, whose elimination is central to Just-in-Time manufacturing.

Muda, mura, muri

Muda, mura, and muri are three Japanese terms used in the Toyota Production System and lean thinking to name categories of wasteful practice: waste, unevenness, and overburden.

Mudanjiang-2 power station

Mudanjiang-2 power station (华电牡丹江第二发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China, owned by China Huadian, with nine units and at least 1,015 MW still operating.

Muffin tin

A muffin tin, also called a muffin pan or cupcake pan, is a baking tray with rounded wells, typically six or twelve, that holds batter while it bakes.