• Machine pistol
  Machine pistol
  A machine pistol is a handgun-style, often magazine-fed and self-loading firearm, capable of fully automatic or burst fire, and normally chambered for pistol cartridges. The term is a literal translation of Maschinenpistole, the German term for a hand-held automatic weapon...
  
  
• Malayo-Polynesian languages
  Malayo-Polynesian languages
  The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. These are widely dispersed throughout the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia...
  
  
• Manu propria
  Manu propria
  Manu propria is a Latin phrase in the ablative case meaning " with one's own hand". In its abbreviated form , it is sometimes used at the end of typewritten or printed documents or official notices right after the name of the person who "signed" the document exactly in those cases when there is no...
  
  , a Latin expression for with one's own hand
• Martinair
  Martinair
  For the American cargo airline, see Martinaire.Martinair Holland N.V., operating as Martinair, is an airline headquartered in the TransPort Building on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands. It operates cargo services to over 50 destinations worldwide. Services...
  
   IATA airline designator or reservation code
• Maximum parsimony
  Maximum parsimony
  Parsimony is a non-parametric statistical method commonly used in computational phylogenetics for estimating phylogenies. Under parsimony, the preferred phylogenetic tree is the tree that requires the least evolutionary change to explain some observed data....
  
  , a term used in statistical analyses
• Medida provisória
  Provisory measure
  A provisory measure is a legal act in Brazil through which the President of Brazil can enact laws without approval by the National Congress. There are two requirements for a provisory measure to be used: urgency and relevance of the matter to be regulated....
  
  
• Melting Point
  Melting point
  The melting point of a solid is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase exist in equilibrium. The melting point of a substance depends on pressure and is usually specified at standard atmospheric pressure...
  
  
• Member of Parliament
  Member of Parliament
  A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
  
  
• Mending plate
  Tie (engineering)
  A tie, structural tie, connector, or structural connector is a structural component designed to resist tension. It is the opposite of a strut, which is designed to resist compression. Ties are generally made of galvanized steel...
  
  
• Metropolitan police
  Metropolitan police
  Metropolitan Police is a generic title for the municipal police force for a major metropolitan area, and it may be part of the official title of the force...
  
   or municipal police
  Municipal police
  .Municipal police are law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government, including the municipal government, where it is the smallest administrative subdivision. They receive pay from the city budget, and usually have fewer rights than the "state paid" police...
  
  
• mezzo-piano
  Dynamics (music)
  In music, dynamics normally refers to the volume of a sound or note, but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic or functional . The term is also applied to the written or printed musical notation used to indicate dynamics...
  
  , a musical term meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
• Military police
  Military police
  Military police are police organisations connected with, or part of, the military of a state. The word can have different meanings in different countries, and may refer to:...
  
  
• Miljöpartiet, Swedish green party
• , a Roman mile
• Ministério Público (disambiguation)
• Missionary position
  Missionary position
  The missionary position is a "man-on-top" sex position usually described as the act in which the woman lies on her back and the partners face each other. Though often acted on and applied by heterosexual pairings, it may also be used by gay and lesbian couples.The missionary position is an example...
  
  
• Missouri Pacific Railroad
  Missouri Pacific Railroad
  The Missouri Pacific Railroad , also known as the MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers, including the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway , Texas and Pacific...
  
   reporting mark
• Modus ponens
  Modus ponens
  In classical logic, modus ponendo ponens or implication elimination is a valid, simple argument form. It is related to another valid form of argument, modus tollens. Both Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens can be mistakenly used when proving arguments...
  
  , a Latin expression for mode that affirms
• Monoprinting
  Monoprinting
  Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that has images or lines that can only be made once, unlike most printmaking, where there are multiple originals. There are many techniques of monoprinting...
  
   (M/P), an art term referring to a type of printmaking
• Mooring post
• Mp (digraph)
• Mumbai Police
  Mumbai Police
  The Mumbai Police is the police force of the city of Mumbai, India. It has the primary responsibilities of law enforcement and investigation within the limits of Mumbai. The department's motto is ""...
  
  
• Progressive Movement (Cameroon)
  Progressive Movement (Cameroon)
  The Progressive Movement is a minor opposition political party in Cameroon. It was formed on 23 August 1991 and is led by Jean-Jacques Ekindi....
  
  
• Mueller and Pfleger, aquariums & aquarium accessories, subsidiary of EHEIM GmbH & Co. KG
• Rubber-tyred rolling stock on Paris Métro, e.g. MP 59
  MP 59
  The MP 59 is a rubber tired variant of electric multiple units used on Paris's Métro system, and is the oldest type still in regular passenger service. Manufactured by GEC Alsthom, they were first introduced in 1963 when the busiest routes of Lines 1 and 4 were converted to rubber tired pneumatic...
  
  , MP 73
  MP 73
  The MP 73 is a rubber tired variant of electric multiple units used on Paris's Métro system. The cars were delivered in 1974, when the RATP decided to convert Line 6 to rubber tyred pneumatic operation...
  
  , MP 89
  MP 89
  The MP 89 is a rubber tired variant of electric multiple units used on Paris's Métro system. Designed by Roger Tallon, two types are built by GEC Alsthom for service on Line 1, 4, and 14.-History:...
  
   and MP 05
  MP 05
  The MP 05 Rubber-tyred metro ordered in 2005 is a rubber-tyred electric multiple unit with automatic opearation, ordered by the RATP in 2005 for the Paris Métro. The units are to replace the older MP 89s on line 1 in order to remove drivers from the line...
  
  
• Manny Pacquiao
  Manny Pacquiao
  Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...
  
  , Philippine World Champion Boxer

Culture and entertainment

• Magic point
  Magic point
  Magic points are units of magical power that are used in many role-playing, computer role-playing and similar games as an expendable resource that is needed to pay for magic spells and other abilities, such as special attacks...
  
  s, in role-playing games
• Mana
  Mana
  Mana is an indigenous Pacific islander concept of an impersonal force or quality that resides in people, animals, and inanimate objects. The word is a cognate in many Oceanic languages, including Melanesian, Polynesian, and Micronesian....
  
  , concept of an impersonal force that resides in objects
• Mario Party
  Mario Party
  is a party video game for the Nintendo 64 game console, developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on December 14, 1998, in North America on February 8, 1999, and in Europe on March 9, 1999...
  
   series for the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, Gamecube, Wii and DS
• Match Point
  Match Point
  Match Point is a 2005 dramatic thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton....
  
  
• Max Payne
  Max Payne
  Max Payne is a BAFTA Award–winning third-person shooter video game developed by Finnish developers Remedy Entertainment and published by Gathering of Developers in July 2001 for Microsoft Windows. Ports created later in the year for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and the GameBoy Advance were published by...
  
  
• Meat Puppets
  Meat Puppets
  The Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood , his brother Cris Kirkwood , and Derrick Bostrom . The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix...
  
  , a musical group
• Melrose Place (1992 TV series), a US drama series which aired on the FOX network from 1992–1999
• Melrose Place (2009 TV series)
  Melrose Place (2009 TV series)
  Melrose Place is an American television series broadcast on The CW Television Network from September 8, 2009 to April 13, 2010. The fifth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise, it is an updated version of the 1990s Fox prime time drama of the same name, featuring a group of young adults...
  
  , an updated version of the original series which has aired on The CW Television Network since 2009
• Metroid Prime
  Metroid Prime
  Metroid Prime is a video game developed by Retro Studios and Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube, released in North America on November 17, 2002...
  
  , a first-person adventure video game for Nintendo GameCube and Wii
• Microsoft Points
  Microsoft Points
  Microsoft Points are the currency of the Xbox Live Marketplace, Games for Windows - Live Marketplace, Windows Live Gallery, and Zune online stores. The points allow users to purchase content without a credit card and to reduce the number of small credit card transaction fees, which Microsoft would...
  
  
• Mikkelin Palloilijat
  Mikkelin Palloilijat
  Mikkelin Palloilijat is a Finnish football club, based in Mikkeli. Club was formed in 1929 and has also had teams in volleyball, ice hockey and bandy. It played in the Finnish First Division from 2004 to 2006 but was relegated to Kakkonen at the end of the season...
  
  , a Finnish football (soccer) club
• Miles Prower, character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series nicknamed Tails
• Mohawk Productions
  Mohawk Productions
  Mohawk Productions is a television production company affiliated with television producer Bruce Helford. Its productions include The Drew Carey Show, The Norm Show, George Lopez, and The Oblongs....
  
  , a production company
• Monster Party
  Monster Party
  is a video game for the NES, released in the U.S. in 1989 by Bandai. It was and remains a relatively obscure platform game for the console, having a small following among some players. The game follows a boy named Mark who is asked by a gargoyle/dragon-like alien named Bert to help rid his world,...
  
  , a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
• Moneypenny, a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films
• Monty Python
  Monty Python
  Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...
  
  
• Motion pictures as in MP3 or MPEG 4
• M.P. (play)
  M.P. (play)
  M.P. is an 1811 comedy play by Thomas Moore first staged at the Lyceum Theatre by Samuel James Arnold. The plot concerns a Member of Parliament Sir Charles Canvas who has cheated his elder brother, a naval officer Captain Canvas, out of his inheritance...
  
  , an 1811 play by Thomas Moore
  Thomas Moore
  Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...
  
  
• multiplayer gaming
• Media Player
  Media Player
  Media Player is a media player originally included in Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions and a slightly updated version was included with Windows 3.1x. Media Player received a facelift with Video for Windows, with an OLE2 version provided with the runtime software...
  
   Compressed audio signal. MP3, MP4

Places

• Madhya Pradesh
  Madhya Pradesh
  Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....
  
  , a state in India
• Northern Mariana Islands
  Northern Mariana Islands
  The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines...
  
   (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviation MP)

Science and technology

• European Mammal Paleogene zone
  Mammal Paleogene zone
  The Mammal Paleogene zones or MP zones are biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record of the Paleogene period of Europe. These zones were developed by Matthijs Freudenthal to help paleontologists provide more specific reference points to evolutionary events in Europe, but are used by...
  
  s, a unit of the geologic time scale
• Market price
  Market price
  In economics, market price is the economic price for which a good or service is offered in the marketplace. It is of interest mainly in the study of microeconomics...
  
  
• Massive parallelism
• Mass production
  Mass production
  Mass production is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines...
  
  
• Mathematical physics
  Mathematical physics
  Mathematical physics refers to development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The Journal of Mathematical Physics defines this area as: "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the development of mathematical methods suitable for such applications and...
  
  
• Megapixel
• .mp
  .mp
  .mp is the Internet country code top-level domain for Northern Mariana Islands. There are a few sites related to the Northern Mariana Islands in this domain . The get.mp site allows users to register and manage .mp domains...
  
   is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands.
• Megapond, a non-SI Metric unit of force, also known as a tonne-force
• Melting point
  Melting point
  The melting point of a solid is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase exist in equilibrium. The melting point of a substance depends on pressure and is usually specified at standard atmospheric pressure...
  
  
• Merge Point, a term used in MPLS local protection
  MPLS local protection
  MPLS Fast Reroute is a local restoration network resiliency mechanism. It is actually a feature of RSVP Traffic Engineering . In MPLS local protection each LSP passing through a facility is protected by a backup path which originates at the node immediately upstream to that facility...
  
   (also called MPLS Fast Reroute)
• Metacarpophalangeal joint
  Metacarpophalangeal joint
  The metacarpophalangeal joints are of the condyloid kind, formed by the reception of the rounded heads of the metacarpal bones into shallow cavities on the proximal ends of the first phalanges, with the exception of that of the thumb, which presents more of the characters of a ginglymoid joint...
  
  , more commonly abbreviated MCP
  MCP
  MCP is an abbreviation that can refer to:* In Fire Detection System** Manual Call Point* In medicine and biochemistry** Medical campus of Philadelphia** Medical center Paranaque, a Hospital located at Paranaque City, Philippines....
  
  
• Microprocessor
  Microprocessor
  A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit on a single integrated circuit, or at most a few integrated circuits. It is a multipurpose, programmable device that accepts digital data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory, and...
  
  
• Microsoft Project
  Microsoft Project
  Microsoft Project is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.The application creates critical path...
  
  
• Middle phalanx, a finger bone
• Milepost
• Minimalist Program
  Minimalist program
  In linguistics, the Minimalist Program is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early nineties. It started with a 1993 paper by Noam Chomsky....
  
  , a syntactic theory in linguistics
• Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry.
• Movement protein, proteins encoded by plant viruses to facilitate cell-to-cell transmission
• Mprize, in biogerontology medical research, M referring to either 'Methuselah' or 'Mouse'
• Multi-platform
• Multilink Protocol
• Multiplayer
• Multiprocessing
  Multiprocessing
  Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor and/or the ability to allocate tasks between them...
  
  , in computers
• Proton
  Proton
  The proton is a subatomic particle with the symbol or and a positive electric charge of 1 elementary charge. One or more protons are present in the nucleus of each atom, along with neutrons. The number of protons in each atom is its atomic number....
  
  Mass