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20,301 | # Motorola 6800
## Example code {#example_code}
The following 6800 assembly language source code is for a subroutine named `memcpy` that copies a block of data bytes of a given size from one location to another. The data block is copied one byte at a time, from lowest address to highest.
``` ca65
; memcpy --
; Copy ... | 480 | Motorola 6800 | 9 |
20,302 | # Motorola 68020
The **Motorola 68020** is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1984. A lower-cost version was also made available, known as the **68EC020**. In keeping with naming practices common to Motorola designs, the 68020 is usually referred to as the \"020\", pronounced \"oh-two-oh\" or \"oh-twen... | 669 | Motorola 68020 | 0 |
20,302 | # Motorola 68020
## History
### Launch, fabrication problems {#launch_fabrication_problems}
The design was completed in the summer of 1983 and announced in June 1984. This \"super chip\" was significant news at the time, with the New York Times making it a lead story in their business section. The launch price was qu... | 696 | Motorola 68020 | 1 |
20,302 | # Motorola 68020
## Description
The 68020 has 32-bit internal and external data and address buses, compared to the early 680x0 models with 16-bit data and 24-bit address buses. The 68020\'s ALU is also natively 32-bit, so can perform 32-bit operations in one clock cycle, whereas the 68000 took a minimum of two clock ... | 592 | Motorola 68020 | 2 |
20,302 | # Motorola 68020
## Architecture
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ----------------------- ------ -------- ------ -------- ------ -------- ------ -------- ---------------------------- |
| ^3^~1~ \... ^2^~... | 718 | Motorola 68020 | 3 |
20,306 | # Mole fraction
In chemistry, the **mole fraction** or **molar fraction**, also called **mole proportion** or **molar proportion**, is a quantity defined as the ratio between the amount of a constituent substance, *n~i~* (expressed in unit of moles, symbol mol), and the total amount of all constituents in a mixture, *... | 307 | Mole fraction | 0 |
20,306 | # Mole fraction
## Properties
Mole fraction is used very frequently in the construction of phase diagrams. It has a number of advantages:
- it is not temperature dependent (as is molar concentration) and does not require knowledge of the densities of the phase(s) involved
- a mixture of known mole fraction can b... | 362 | Mole fraction | 1 |
20,306 | # Mole fraction
## Related quantities {#related_quantities}
### Mass fraction {#mass_fraction}
The mass fraction *w~i~* can be calculated using the formula
$$w_i = x_i \frac{M_i}{\bar{M}} = x_i \frac {M_i}{\sum_j x_j M_j}$$
where *M~i~* is the molar mass of the component *i* and *M̄* is the average molar mass of t... | 395 | Mole fraction | 2 |
20,311 | # Military academy
A **military academy** or **service academy** is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps. It normally provides education in a military environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.
Three types of academy exist: pre-collegiate-lev... | 495 | Military academy | 0 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Types
### Pre-collegiate institutions {#pre_collegiate_institutions}
A military school teaches children of various ages (elementary school, middle school or high school) in a military environment which includes training in military aspects, such as drill. Many military schools are also boarding... | 577 | Military academy | 1 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Belgium
- Royal Military Academy (Belgium)
## Bolivia
- Military College of Bolivia (Colegio Militar del Ejército de Bolivia)
- Bolivian Military Naval Academy
- Bolivian Air Force Academy
## Brazil
### Basic Education {#basic_education}
**(offers an education with military values f... | 529 | Military academy | 2 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Canada
Two post-secondary military academies are operated under the Canadian Military Colleges system, the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC) in Kingston, Ontario; and Royal Military College Saint-Jean (RMC Saint-Jean) in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. RMCC was established in 1876, while... | 471 | Military academy | 3 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Colombia
National Army of Colombia:
- José María Córdova Military School, in Bogotá.
- Colombian Army NCO School
Colombian Air Force:
- Marco Fidel Suarez Military Aviation School, in Cali.
Colombian Naval Infantry and Colombian Navy:
- Admiral Padilla Naval Academy, in Cartagena de... | 607 | Military academy | 4 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Germany
The standard education in military leadership is the task of the *Offizierschulen* (officers\' schools) run by the three branches. The contents differ from branch to branch. According to the doctrine \"leading by task\", in the army all prospective platoon leaders are trained down to the... | 384 | Military academy | 5 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Indonesia
The Indonesian Military Academy was founded in Yogyakarta, October 13, 1945, by the order of General Staff Chief of Indonesia Army Lieutenant General Urip Sumohardjo as the Militaire Academie (MA) Yogyakarta.
Currently, the Tentara Nasional Indonesia or the TNI (Indonesian National Ar... | 732 | Military academy | 6 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Israel
- Command and Staff College
- The Israel Defense Forces' Tactical Command College
- Israeli Naval Academy
- Israeli Air Force Flight Academy
- National Security College (Israel)
- IDF Military Colleges
## Italy
High school level institutions (only for classical and scientifi... | 543 | Military academy | 7 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Nepal
- Nepalese Military Academy, Kharipati, Bhaktapur
## Netherlands
- Koninklijke Militaire Academie
- Royal Naval College (Netherlands)
## New Zealand {#new_zealand}
Tier One -- initial officer training
- New Zealand Commissioning Course, Waiouru (NZ Army)
- Initial Officer Tr... | 488 | Military academy | 8 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Philippines
The Philippines patterned all its service academies after the United States Military Academy (West Point) and the United States Merchant Marine Academy (King\'s Point).
These higher education institutions are operated by the Philippine Government and grant different baccalaureate de... | 615 | Military academy | 9 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Republic of Ireland {#republic_of_ireland}
- Defence Forces Training Centre
- Naval College
- Air Corps College
## Republic of Korea {#republic_of_korea}
*Main article: Republic of Korea military academies*
The three main military academies:
- Korea Military Academy (Army)
- Korea ... | 619 | Military academy | 10 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Singapore
- SAFTI Military Institute
- Officer Cadet School (OCS): trains officers
- SAF Advanced Schools: conducts specialised training for officers
- Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College: trains senior officers to take up command and staff appointments
- Specialist and... | 699 | Military academy | 11 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## Ukraine
### Staff colleges {#staff_colleges}
- National Defence University of Ukraine, Kyiv
### Service academies {#service_academies}
- Hetman Petro Sahaydachnyi National Ground Force Academy, Lviv
- Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University, Kharkiv
- Naval College of the ... | 559 | Military academy | 12 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## United Kingdom {#united_kingdom}
### Pre-University level institution {#pre_university_level_institution_1}
- Duke of York\'s Royal Military School -- Military based secondary school in Dover, Kent; students are influenced to join the forces after education, but have no commitment to do so.
... | 483 | Military academy | 13 |
20,311 | # Military academy
## United States {#united_states}
### Introduction
In the United States, the term \"military academy\" does not necessarily mean a government-owned institution run by the armed forces to train its own officers. It may also mean a middle school, high school, or college, whether public or private, w... | 876 | Military academy | 14 |
20,321 | # Mackinac Bridge
The **Mackinac Bridge** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|æ|k|ə|n|ɔː}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell|MAK|ə|naw}}`{=mediawiki}; also referred to as the **Mighty Mac** or **Big Mac**) is a suspension bridge that connects the Upper and Lower peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. It spans the Straits of Mackinac, a body of ... | 344 | Mackinac Bridge | 0 |
20,321 | # Mackinac Bridge
## History
### Early history {#early_history}
The Algonquian peoples who lived in the straits area prior to the arrival of Europeans in the 17th century called this region *Michilimackinac*, which is widely understood to mean *Place of the Great Turtle.* This is thought to refer to the shape of wha... | 457 | Mackinac Bridge | 1 |
20,321 | # Mackinac Bridge
## History
### Formal planning {#formal_planning}
In 1923, the state legislature ordered the State Highway Department to establish ferry service across the strait. More and more people used ferries to cross the straits each year, and as they did, the movement to build a bridge increased. Chase Osbor... | 973 | Mackinac Bridge | 2 |
20,321 | # Mackinac Bridge
## Facts and figures {#facts_and_figures}
The Mackinac Bridge is a toll bridge on Interstate 75 (I-75). The US Highway 27 (US 27) designation was initially extended across the bridge. In November 1960, sections of I-75 freeway opened from Indian River north to the southern bridge approaches in Macki... | 404 | Mackinac Bridge | 3 |
20,321 | # Mackinac Bridge
## Facts and figures {#facts_and_figures}
### Work and major accident fatalities {#work_and_major_accident_fatalities}
Five workers died during the construction of the bridge:
- Diver Frank Pepper ascended too quickly from a depth of 140 ft on September 16, 1954. Despite being rushed to a decompr... | 634 | Mackinac Bridge | 4 |
20,321 | # Mackinac Bridge
## Bridge Walk {#bridge_walk}
The first Mackinac Bridge Walk was held in 1958, when it was led by Governor G. Mennen Williams. The first walk was held during the Bridge\'s Dedication Ceremony held in late June, and has been held on Labor Day since 1959. Until 2018, school buses from local districts ... | 547 | Mackinac Bridge | 5 |
20,322 | # Motorola 68030
`{{Use American English|date=November 2023}}`{=mediawiki} `{{Infobox CPU
| image = Motorola 68030 32-bit microprocessor.jpg
| designfirm = Motorola
| produced-start = 1987
| arch = [[Motorola 68000 series]]
| data-width = 32 bits
| address-width = 32 bits
| slowest =... | 685 | Motorola 68030 | 0 |
20,325 | # Motorola 68060
The **Motorola 68060** (\"*sixty-eight-oh-sixty*\") is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola released in April 1994. It is the successor to the Motorola 68040 and is the highest performing member of the 68000 series. The 68060 is the last development of the 68000 family for general purpose use, abando... | 985 | Motorola 68060 | 0 |
20,325 | # Motorola 68060
## Usage
Chyron\'s `{{Not a typo|iNFiNiT!}}`{=mediawiki}, Max!, and Maxine! series of television character generators use the 68060 as the main processor. These character generators were a fixture on many American television networks\' affiliate stations.
In desktops, the 68060 is used in some varia... | 346 | Motorola 68060 | 1 |
20,325 | # Motorola 68060
## Technical data {#technical_data}
+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... | 301 | Motorola 68060 | 2 |
20,326 | # Motorola 6809
The **Motorola 6809** (\"*sixty-eight-oh-nine*\") is an 8-bit microprocessor with some 16-bit features. It was designed by Motorola\'s Terry Ritter and Joel Boney and introduced in 1978. Although source compatible with the earlier Motorola 6800, the 6809 offered significant improvements over it and 8-b... | 285 | Motorola 6809 | 0 |
20,326 | # Motorola 6809
## History
### 6800 and 6502 {#and_6502}
The Motorola 6800 was designed beginning in 1971 and released in 1974. In overall design terms, it has a strong resemblance to other CPUs that were designed from the start as 8-bit designs, like the Intel 8080. It was initially fabricated using early NMOS logi... | 395 | Motorola 6809 | 1 |
20,326 | # Motorola 6809
## History
### 6809
While the 6502 began to take over the 6800\'s market, Intel was experiencing the same problem when the upstart Zilog Z80 began to steal sales from the Intel 8080. Both Motorola and Intel began new design cycles to leapfrog those designs. Intel responded by quickly introducing a sma... | 1,055 | Motorola 6809 | 2 |
20,326 | # Motorola 6809
## History
### Market acceptance {#market_acceptance}
Much of the design had been based around the market concept of building-block code. But the market for pre-rolled ROM modules never materialized: Motorola\'s only released example was the MC6839 floating-point ROM. The industry as a whole solved th... | 454 | Motorola 6809 | 3 |
20,326 | # Motorola 6809
## History
### Major uses {#major_uses}
Its first major use was in the TRS-80 Color Computer, which happened largely by accident. Motorola had been asked to design a color-capable computer terminal for an online farm-aid project, a system known as \"AgVision\". Tandy (Radio Shack) was brought in as a ... | 820 | Motorola 6809 | 4 |
20,326 | # Motorola 6809
## History
### Legacy
Motorola spun off its microprocessor division in 2004. The division changed its name to Freescale and was subsequently acquired by NXP.
Neither Motorola nor Hitachi produce 6809 processors or derivatives anymore. 6809 cores are available in VHDL and can be programmed into an FPG... | 190 | Motorola 6809 | 5 |
20,326 | # Motorola 6809
## Description
The 6809\'s internal design is closer to simpler, non-microcoded CPU designs. Like most 8-bit microprocessors, the 6809 implementation is a register-transfer level machine, using a central PLA to implement much of the instruction decoding as well as parts of the sequencing.
Like the 68... | 621 | Motorola 6809 | 6 |
20,327 | # Motorola 68HC11
The **68HC11** (also abbreviated as **6811** or **HC11**) is an 8-bit microcontroller family introduced by Motorola Semiconductor in 1984 (later from Freescale then NXP). It descended from the Motorola 6800 microprocessor by way of the 6801. The 68HC11 devices are more powerful and more expensive tha... | 691 | Motorola 68HC11 | 0 |
20,329 | # March 21
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20,340 | # Mary (programming language)
**Mary** is a programming language designed and implemented by Mark Rain at RUNIT in Trondheim, Norway during the 1970s. It borrowed many features from ALGOL 68 but was designed for systems programming (machine-oriented programming), with a subset of operations being reserved for higher-l... | 422 | Mary (programming language) | 0 |
20,357 | # Medical psychology
**Medical psychology** or **Medicopsychology** is the application of psychological principles to the practice of medicine, sometimes using drugs for both physical and mental disorders. `{{Infobox Occupation
| name= Medical Psychologist
| image=
| caption=
| official_names=
Clinical psychologis... | 935 | Medical psychology | 0 |
20,357 | # Medical psychology
## Certifications
The Academy of Medical Psychology defines medical psychology as a specialty trained at the postdoctoral level and designed to deliver advanced diagnostic and clinical interventions in medical and healthcare facilities utilizing the knowledge and skills of clinical psychology, he... | 766 | Medical psychology | 1 |
20,360 | # Mychal Judge
*Mychal Judge* (ship)\|the snooker player\|Michael Judge\|the animator\|Mike Judge}} `{{Infobox Christian leader
|type = priest
|honorific-prefix=[[The Reverend]]
|name = Mychal Judge
|honorific-suffix= [[Order of Friars Minor|OFM]]
|title =
|image = Mychal Judge.jpg
|... | 479 | Mychal Judge | 0 |
20,360 | # Mychal Judge
## Career
After spending his freshman year at the St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens, where he studied under the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, in 1948, at the age of 15, Judge began the formation process to enter the Order of Friars Minor. He transferred to St. Joseph\'s Seraphic Seminary in C... | 666 | Mychal Judge | 1 |
20,360 | # Mychal Judge
## September 11 attacks {#september_11_attacks}
On September 11, 2001, upon learning that the World Trade Center had been hit by the first of two jetliners, Judge rushed to the site. He was met by Rudolph Giuliani, the Mayor of New York City, who asked him to pray for the city and its victims. Judge pr... | 414 | Mychal Judge | 2 |
20,360 | # Mychal Judge
## Personal life {#personal_life}
Following his death, a few of Judge\'s friends and associates revealed that Judge was gay. According to Fire Department Commissioner Thomas Von Essen: \"I actually knew about his homosexuality when I was in the Uniformed Firefighters Association. I kept the secret, but... | 374 | Mychal Judge | 3 |
20,360 | # Mychal Judge
## Legacy
On September 15, 2001, 3,000 people attended Judge\'s funeral Mass at St. Francis of Assisi Church, which was presided over by Cardinal Edward Egan, the Archbishop of New York. Former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton also attended. President Clinton said that Judge\'s... | 923 | Mychal Judge | 4 |
20,361 | # Moonfleet (novel)
***Moonfleet*** is an 1898 adventure and historical novel written by English writer J. Meade Falkner. The plot is an adventure tale of smuggling, treasure, and shipwreck set in 18th-century England.
## Plot summary {#plot_summary}
In 1757 Moonfleet is a small village along the coast of southern E... | 1,168 | Moonfleet (novel) | 0 |
20,361 | # Moonfleet (novel)
## Geography of the book {#geography_of_the_book}
Falkner uses the local geography of Dorset and the Isle of Wight in the book, only changing some of the place names. The village of *Moonfleet* is based on East Fleet in Dorset by Chesil Beach. The headland in the book called *The Snout* is Portlan... | 507 | Moonfleet (novel) | 1 |
20,362 | # Merge algorithm
**Merge algorithms** are a family of algorithms that take multiple sorted lists as input and produce a single list as output, containing all the elements of the inputs lists in sorted order. These algorithms are used as subroutines in various sorting algorithms, most famously merge sort.
## Applicat... | 563 | Merge algorithm | 0 |
20,362 | # Merge algorithm
## K-way merging {#k_way_merging}
-way merging generalizes binary merging to an arbitrary number `{{mvar|k}}`{=mediawiki} of sorted input lists. Applications of `{{mvar|k}}`{=mediawiki}-way merging arise in various sorting algorithms, including patience sorting and an external sorting algorithm that... | 369 | Merge algorithm | 1 |
20,362 | # Merge algorithm
## Parallel merge {#parallel_merge}
A parallel version of the binary merge algorithm can serve as a building block of a parallel merge sort. The following pseudocode demonstrates this algorithm in a parallel divide-and-conquer style (adapted from Cormen *et al.*). It operates on two sorted arrays `{... | 775 | Merge algorithm | 2 |
20,377 | # Microorganism
thumb\|upright=1.35\|A cluster of *Escherichia coli* bacteria magnified 10,000 times `{{TopicTOC-Biology}}`{=mediawiki} A **microorganism**, or **microbe**, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial ... | 348 | Microorganism | 0 |
20,377 | # Microorganism
## Discovery
### Ancient precursors {#ancient_precursors}
thumb\|upright=1.2\|The mausoleum of Akshamsaddin, who mentioned microorganisms in his book Maddat ul-Hayat in the 15th century, in Bolu, Turkiye. thumb\|upright=0.8\|Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to study microscopic organisms.
The p... | 406 | Microorganism | 1 |
20,377 | # Microorganism
## Discovery
### 19th century {#th_century}
thumb\|upright=0.8\|left\|Louis Pasteur showed that Spallanzani\'s findings held even if air could enter through a filter that kept particles out.
Louis Pasteur (1822--1895) exposed boiled broths to the air, in vessels that contained a filter to prevent par... | 526 | Microorganism | 2 |
20,377 | # Microorganism
## Classification and structure {#classification_and_structure}
Microorganisms can be found almost anywhere on Earth. Bacteria and archaea are almost always microscopic, while a number of eukaryotes are also microscopic, including most protists, some fungi, as well as some micro-animals and plants. Vi... | 880 | Microorganism | 3 |
20,377 | # Microorganism
## Classification and structure {#classification_and_structure}
### Eukaryotes
Most living things that are visible to the naked eye in their adult form are eukaryotes, including humans. However, many eukaryotes are also microorganisms. Unlike bacteria and archaea, eukaryotes contain organelles such as... | 474 | Microorganism | 4 |
20,377 | # Microorganism
## Ecology
Microorganisms are found in almost every habitat present in nature, including hostile environments such as the North and South poles, deserts, geysers, and rocks. They also include all the marine microorganisms of the oceans and deep sea. Some types of microorganisms have adapted to extreme... | 678 | Microorganism | 5 |
20,377 | # Microorganism
## Applications
Microorganisms are useful in producing foods, treating waste water, creating biofuels and a wide range of chemicals and enzymes. They are invaluable in research as model organisms. They have been weaponised and sometimes used in warfare and bioterrorism. They are vital to agriculture t... | 703 | Microorganism | 6 |
20,377 | # Microorganism
## Human health {#human_health}
### Human gut flora {#human_gut_flora}
Microorganisms can form an endosymbiotic relationship with other, larger organisms. For example, microbial symbiosis plays a crucial role in the immune system. The microorganisms that make up the gut flora in the gastrointestinal ... | 346 | Microorganism | 7 |
20,388 | # Geography of Myanmar
thumb\|upright=1.3\|Myanmar (Burma) map of Köppen climate classification
Myanmar (also known as Burma) is the northwesternmost country of mainland Southeast Asia located on the Indochinese peninsula. With an area of 261,228 sq mi (676,578 km^2^), it is the second largest country in Southeast As... | 842 | Geography of Myanmar | 0 |
20,388 | # Geography of Myanmar
## Mountains
Myanmar\'s mountains create five distinct physiographic regions.
**Northern Mountains**
The Northern Mountains are characterised by complex ranges centred around the eastern ends of the Himalayas and the northeastern limit of the Indian-Australian Plate. The ranges at the souther... | 758 | Geography of Myanmar | 1 |
20,388 | # Geography of Myanmar
## Maritime claims {#maritime_claims}
Myanmar has the 50th largest exclusive economic zone of 205706 mi2. It includes more than 16 islands and the Mergui Archipelago.
*Contiguous zone:* 24 nmi\
*Continental shelf:* 200 nmi or to the edge of the continental margin\
*Exclusive economic zone:* 20... | 533 | Geography of Myanmar | 2 |
20,392 | # Telecommunications in Myanmar
Myanmar began liberalization of its telecommunications market in 2013.
## Telecommunication networks {#telecommunication_networks}
Previously, Myanma Post and Telecommunication (MPT) had a monopoly in the country. In 2013, the government started taking steps to open up the telecommuni... | 589 | Telecommunications in Myanmar | 0 |
20,392 | # Telecommunications in Myanmar
## Media
- **Radio broadcast stations**
- AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 3 (2015)
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- **Television broadcast stations:**
- 6 (2015)
**Press**
1. Kyehmon (Burmese: *ကြေးမုံ*) - state-run daily
2. The New Light of Myanmar (*Myanma A-lin*) - English and B... | 322 | Telecommunications in Myanmar | 1 |
20,392 | # Telecommunications in Myanmar
## Internet
The government allowed unrestricted access to the Internet for some years following the telecoms liberalization. Many people were using the internet freely, often with widely available smart phones.
Myanmar Teleport (formerly Bagan Cybertech), Information Technology Centra... | 352 | Telecommunications in Myanmar | 2 |
20,403 | # Malay Peninsula
The **Malay Peninsula** is located in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north--south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area contains Peninsular Malaysia, Southern Thailand, and the southernmost tip of Myanmar (Kawthaung). ... | 599 | Malay Peninsula | 0 |
20,403 | # Malay Peninsula
## Ecology
The Malay Peninsula is covered with tropical moist broadleaf forests. Lowland forests are dominated by dipterocarp trees, while montane forests are home to evergreen trees in the beech family (Fagaceae), Myrtle family (Myrtaceae), laurel family (Lauraceae), tropical conifers, and other pl... | 294 | Malay Peninsula | 1 |
20,403 | # Malay Peninsula
## List of areas by country {#list_of_areas_by_country}
### Malaysia
+------+-------------+------------------------------------------------------------+------------------+------------------+--------------+------------------------+--------------------+
| Flag | Emblem /\ | State ... | 408 | Malay Peninsula | 2 |
20,406 | # M-theory
In physics, **M-theory** is a theory that unifies all consistent versions of superstring theory. Edward Witten first conjectured the existence of such a theory at a string theory conference at the University of Southern California in 1995. Witten\'s announcement initiated a flurry of research activity known... | 289 | M-theory | 0 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## Background
### Quantum gravity and strings {#quantum_gravity_and_strings}
One of the deepest problems in modern physics is the problem of quantum gravity. The current understanding of gravity is based on Albert Einstein\'s general theory of relativity, which is formulated within the framework of classi... | 374 | M-theory | 1 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## Background
### Number of dimensions {#number_of_dimensions}
In everyday life, there are three familiar dimensions of space: height, width and depth. Einstein\'s general theory of relativity treats time as a dimension on par with the three spatial dimensions; in general relativity, space and time are not... | 376 | M-theory | 2 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## Background
### Dualities
right\|thumb\|alt=A diagram indicating the relationships between M-theory and the five string theories.\|upright=1.2\|A diagram of string theory dualities. Yellow arrows indicate S-duality. Blue arrows indicate T-duality. These dualities may be combined to obtain equivalences of... | 762 | M-theory | 3 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## History and development {#history_and_development}
### Kaluza--Klein theory {#kaluzaklein_theory}
In the early 20th century, physicists and mathematicians including Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski pioneered the use of four-dimensional geometry for describing the physical world. These efforts culm... | 923 | M-theory | 4 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## History and development {#history_and_development}
### Membranes and fivebranes {#membranes_and_fivebranes}
String theory extends ordinary particle physics by replacing zero-dimensional point particles by one-dimensional objects called strings. In the late 1980s, it was natural for theorists to attempt ... | 426 | M-theory | 5 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## History and development {#history_and_development}
### Second superstring revolution {#second_superstring_revolution}
upright=1.6\|thumb\|alt=A star-shaped diagram with the various limits of M-theory labeled at its six vertices.\|A schematic illustration of the relationship between M-theory, the five su... | 350 | M-theory | 6 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## Matrix theory {#matrix_theory}
### BFSS matrix model {#bfss_matrix_model}
In mathematics, a matrix is a rectangular array of numbers or other data. In physics, a matrix model is a particular kind of physical theory whose mathematical formulation involves the notion of a matrix in an important way. A ma... | 459 | M-theory | 7 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## AdS/CFT correspondence {#adscft_correspondence}
### Overview
The application of quantum mechanics to physical objects such as the electromagnetic field, which are extended in space and time, is known as quantum field theory. In particle physics, quantum field theories form the basis for our understandi... | 690 | M-theory | 8 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## AdS/CFT correspondence {#adscft_correspondence}
### 6D (2,0) superconformal field theory {#d_20_superconformal_field_theory}
left\|thumb\|upright=1.6\|alt=A collection of knot diagrams in the plane.\|The six-dimensional (2,0)-theory has been used to understand results from the mathematical theory of kno... | 520 | M-theory | 9 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## Phenomenology
### Overview {#overview_1}
In addition to being an idea of considerable theoretical interest, M-theory provides a framework for constructing models of real world physics that combine general relativity with the standard model of particle physics. Phenomenology is the branch of theoretical... | 623 | M-theory | 10 |
20,406 | # M-theory
## Popularization
- [BBC *Horizon*: \"Parallel Universes\"](http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/paralleluni.shtml) -- 2002 feature documentary by BBC *Horizon*, episode \"Parallel Universes\" focuses on the history and emergence of M-theory, and scientists involved
- [1](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/... | 67 | M-theory | 11 |
20,407 | # Multicast
`{{routing scheme}}`{=mediawiki}
In computer networking, **multicast** is a type of group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously. Multicast can be one-to-many or many-to-many distribution. Multicast differs from physical layer point-to-multipo... | 315 | Multicast | 0 |
20,407 | # Multicast
## IP
thumb\|The relationship between the multicast group management protocol family and the multicast routing protocols family based on the network topology terms. IP multicast is a technique for one-to-many communication over an IP network. The destination nodes send Internet Group Management Protocol *... | 431 | Multicast | 1 |
20,407 | # Multicast
## Wireless networks {#wireless_networks}
Wireless communications (with the exception of point-to-point radio links using directional antennas) are inherently broadcasting media. However, the communication service provided may be unicast, multicast, or broadcast, depending on if the data is addressed to a... | 581 | Multicast | 2 |
20,414 | # Meuse
The **Meuse** or **Maas** is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine--Meuse--Scheldt delta. It has a total length of 925 km.
## History
From 1301, the upper Meuse roughly marked the western border of the Holy R... | 549 | Meuse | 0 |
20,414 | # Meuse
## Geography
The Meuse rises in Pouilly-en-Bassigny, commune of Le Châtelet-sur-Meuse on the Langres plateau in France from where it flows northwards past Sedan (the head of navigation) and Charleville-Mézières into Belgium.
At Namur it is joined by the Sambre. Beyond Namur the Meuse winds eastwards and pass... | 488 | Meuse | 1 |
20,414 | # Meuse
## Basin area {#basin_area}
An international agreement was signed in 2002 in Ghent, Belgium, about the management of the river amongst France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Also participating in the agreement were the Belgian regional governments of Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels (which... | 434 | Meuse | 2 |
20,414 | # Meuse
## Distributaries
The mean annual discharge rate of the Meuse has been relatively stable over the last few thousand years. One recent study estimates that average flow has increased by about 10% since 2000 BC. The hydrological distribution of the Meuse changed during the later Middle Ages, when a major flood ... | 438 | Meuse | 3 |
20,414 | # Meuse
## Detailed route {#detailed_route}
*Main cities and tributaries will be in **bold**.*
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... | 9,404 | Meuse | 4 |
20,414 | # Meuse
## Mention in patriotic songs {#mention_in_patriotic_songs}
The Meuse (*Maas*) is mentioned in the first stanza of Germany\'s old national anthem, the *Deutschlandlied\]\]*. However, since its re-adoption as national anthem in 1952, only the third stanza of the *Deutschlandlied* has been sung as the German na... | 191 | Meuse | 5 |
20,418 | # Michael Bentine
**Michael Bentine** (born **Michael James Bentin**; 26 January 1922 -- 26 November 1996) was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. His father was a Peruvian Briton.
## Biography
Bentine was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, to a Peruvian father, Adam Bentin, and a British ... | 475 | Michael Bentine | 0 |
20,418 | # Michael Bentine
## Comedy career {#comedy_career}
After the war Bentine decided to become a comedian and worked in the Windmill Theatre where he met Harry Secombe. He specialised in off-the-wall humour, often involving cartoons and other types of animation. His acts included giving lectures in an invented language ... | 839 | Michael Bentine | 1 |
20,418 | # Michael Bentine
## Comedy career {#comedy_career}
### Other interests {#other_interests}
In 1968, travelling on the British Hovercraft Corporation (BHC) SR.N6, *GH--2012*, Bentine took part in the first hovercraft expedition up the River Amazon.
In the 1995 New Year Honours, Bentine received a CBE from Queen Eliza... | 526 | Michael Bentine | 2 |
20,418 | # Michael Bentine
## Programmes
Some of the programmes Bentine appeared in were:
- *The Goon Show* (1951--1952) as himself
- *Goonreel* (1952, TV movie)
- *The Bumblies* (1954) as Prof. Michael Bentine / voices of the Bumblies
- *Yes, It\'s the Cathode-Ray Tube Show!* (1957) (voice)
- *After Hours* (1958--... | 424 | Michael Bentine | 3 |
20,426 | # Metonic cycle
The **Metonic cycle** or **enneadecaeteris** (from *ἐννεακαιδεκαετηρίς*, from ἐννεακαίδεκα, \"nineteen\") is a period of almost exactly 19 years after which the lunar phases recur at the same time of the year. The recurrence is not perfect, and by precise observation the Metonic cycle defined as 235 sy... | 1,005 | Metonic cycle | 0 |
20,433 | # Mere Christianity
***Mere Christianity*** is a Christian apologetical book by the British author C. S. Lewis. It was adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1941 and 1944, originally published as three separate volumes: *Broadcast Talks* (1942), *Christian Behaviour* (1943), and *Beyond Personality* (1... | 303 | Mere Christianity | 0 |
20,433 | # Mere Christianity
## Background
After reading Lewis\'s *The Problem of Pain* James Welch, the Director of Religious Broadcasting for the BBC, wrote Lewis the following:
> I write to ask whether you would be willing to help us in our work of religious broadcasting \... The microphone is a limiting, and rather irrit... | 382 | Mere Christianity | 1 |
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