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Mug

A mug is a large drinking vessel with a handle, usually cylindrical and made of ceramic or glass, used without a saucer for hot drinks such as coffee and tea.

Mugardos LNG Terminal

The Mugardos LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas import and regasification plant in the ría de Ferrol, Galicia, Spain, opened in 2007 and operated by Reganosa.

MUGEM-class aircraft carrier

The MUGEM-class aircraft carrier (Milli Uçak Gemisi, "National Aircraft Carrier") is a 60,000-tonne STOBAR carrier under construction for the Turkish Navy at Istanbul Naval Shipyard, with delivery targeted for 2032.

Mughal architecture

Mughal architecture, also called Moghul architecture, is the Indo-Islamic building style of the Mughal Empire, flourishing from about 1556 to 1658, best known for the Taj Mahal.

Muguajie Gangue power station

Muguajie Gangue power station (木瓜界) is a coal-fired power plant in Shuozhou, Shanxi, China, with two 660 MW units burning coal gangue from the adjacent Pingshuo washery.

Muhammad Gaddafi (محمد معمر القذافي)

Muhammad Gaddafi, also known as Muhammad Muammar Gaddafi, is a Libyan businessman born in 1970, eldest son of Muammar Gaddafi, who chaired Libya's state telecom operators before the 2011 uprising.

Muhammad Mahmood Alam (محمد محمود عالم)

Muhammad Mahmood Alam, known as M. M. Alam, was a Pakistani fighter pilot credited by the Pakistan Air Force with nine kills, including five Hunters in under a minute, during the 1965 war.

Muhammad Sahimi

Muhammad Sahimi is a chemical engineer who has taught at the University of Southern California since 1984, known for work on percolation theory and transport in porous media.

Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant

The Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Kernkraftwerk Mühleberg or KKM, was a Swiss boiling water reactor near Bern, shut down in December 2019.

Muja power station

Muja power station is a state-owned coal-fired power station at Collie, Western Australia, owned by Synergy Energy and built in four stages between 1965 and the mid-1980s.

Mujid S. Kazimi

Mujid S. Kazimi (1947–2015) was a Palestinian-American nuclear engineer and MIT professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 for contributions to reactor safety and the nuclear fuel cycle.

MuJoCo

MuJoCo, short for Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact, is a general-purpose physics engine for simulating articulated structures in contact, built for robotics, biomechanics, animation, and machine learning.

MuJoCo MPC

MuJoCo MPC (MJPC) is an open-source interactive application and framework for real-time predictive control built on the MuJoCo physics engine, developed by Google DeepMind and released in 2022 under the Apache License.

Mukhaizna Oil Field

The Mukhaizna oil field is a giant heavy oil field in south-central Oman, discovered in 1975 and operated by Occidental Petroleum using large-scale steam injection.

Mukran FSRU

The Mukran FSRU is a floating LNG import terminal at the port of Mukran on Rügen in the German Baltic Sea, operated by Deutsche ReGas since September 2024.

Muktinath (मुक्तिनाथ)

Muktinath (मुक्तिनाथ) is a temple complex in Mustang district, Nepal, sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists, with 108 ritual water spouts and a burning natural gas flame.

Mula Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant

The Mula Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant is a solar power station in Mula, Region of Murcia, Spain, with a peak capacity of 493.74 MWp, connected to the grid in July 2019.

Mulach Oil and Gas Field

Mulach is an offshore oil and gas field in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico's Cuencas del Sureste, discovered by Pemex in 2018 and producing since 2020.

Mule (shoe)

A mule, or mule sandal, is a backless slip-on shoe covering the front of the foot with a vamp, ranging from house slippers to heeled fashion shoes.

MuleSoft

MuleSoft is a software company, owned by Salesforce since 2018, that sells the Anypoint Platform, an integration platform connecting applications, data, and devices across cloud environments.

Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant

The Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant (Kernkraftwerk Mülheim-Kärlich) was a German nuclear power station near Koblenz, shut down by court order in 1988 after 13 months and dismantled since 2004.

Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive is a scenic 24-mile ridge road in the Hollywood Hills and Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles, opened in 1924 and named for engineer William Mulholland.

Mullaperiyar Dam (മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാർ അണക്കെട്ട്)

Mullaperiyar Dam (മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാർ അണക്കെട്ട്) is a masonry gravity dam on the Periyar river in Kerala, built 1887 to 1895 and operated by Tamil Nadu under a 999-year lease.

Müller (dairy company)

Müller is a family-owned dairy company founded in 1896 as a village dairy in Aretsried, Bavaria, now producing dairy products in 13 countries with 35,000 employees and €10.3 billion turnover.

Multi Media Interface

Multi Media Interface (MMI), or Audi MMI, is Audi's operating and display system controlling infotainment, navigation, telephone, and vehicle settings; it debuted in the Audi A8 in 2002.

Multi-access edge computing

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is an architecture, standardized by ETSI since 2014, that runs applications at the network edge near base stations to achieve single-digit-millisecond latency.

Multi-agent debate

Multi-agent debate is a technique for improving large language model outputs in which several model instances critique each other over rounds before converging on an answer.

Multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient

Multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient, or MADDPG, is a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm from 2017 that extends DDPG with a centralized critic for each agent.

Multi-agent path finding

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) plans paths for multiple agents, such as warehouse robots or game characters, so they can move concurrently without colliding, usually on a graph.

Multi-agent proximal policy optimization

Multi-agent proximal policy optimization (MAPPO) is a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm that extends PPO, using a centralized value function in training and decentralized policies at execution.